Section: Hoover Institution (USA)
Ten Reasons Why Putin Wins Big In Syria While The U.S. Gets Nothing
Image credit: Sean Gallup, Getty Images NewsAnalysis and Commentaryvia ForbesVladimir Putin’s announcement that he is pulling the main part of his armed forces out of Syria caught the world flat-footed. Putin’s word is not to be highly valued given his claims of no troops in Ukraine. …read more Source: Hoover...
China’s Ascendance to the Position of Chief Adversary
Image credit: Poster Collection, CC 146, Hoover Institution Archives.Blank Section (Placeholder)via Military History in the NewsA significant portion of our national security establishment, painstakingly built up during the Cold War, has accepted the assumption that when it comes to threats from sovereign states, Russia, not China, is...
Rational Security: The “We’re Golden” Edition
Image credit: istockAnalysis and Commentaryvia LawfareThe Rational Security gang starts the year with our 50th episode. Kim Jong-un says North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb. The Russians may have caused a blackout in Ukraine with a cyber attack. …read more Source: Hoover...
Can America And Russia Cooperate In Syria?
Image credit: istockFeaturedvia Moscow TimesPresident Vladimir Putin’s decision to intervene in Syria marked a major turning point in Russian foreign policy in 2015. While Putin correctly calculated that most of the world would condemn his military actions in Chechnya, Georgia, and Ukraine, he hopes for solidarity and support from the...
Putin’s Syria Narrative Must Win Russian Public Opinion–But It’ll Be A Hard Sell
Image credit: Russian Presidential Press OfficeAnalysis and Commentaryvia ForbesVladimir Putin has embarked on Russia’s first military action outside the former Soviet Union, and he must now convince Russian people that his intervention in Syria is necessary and in Russia’s best interests. In his three previous propaganda-driven...
Syrian Crisis Forcing A New York Meeting Between Obama And Putin
Image credit: istockIn the Newsquoting Michael McFaulvia The Washington PostPresident Obama has not met one-on-one with President Vladimir Putin for more than 15 months but agreed Thursday to sit down with the Russian leader in New York on Monday as part of a broader effort to resolve the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. …read more Source:...
If Russian Soldiers Aren’t Dying In Ukraine, Why Did Putin Make Casualty Stats A State Secret?
Image credit: istockAnalysis and Commentaryvia ForbesIf you want to enrage Vladimir Putin, publish an article on Russian casualties in Ukraine. Putin unequivocally declared, on his Direct Line broadcast to the Russian people on April 16, that “the question of whether Russian troops are present in Ukraine…I can tell you outright and unequivocally...
Reconciling Positions Of The Ukrainian Crisis
In the Newsfeaturing Henry A. Kissingervia Russia Beyond The HeadlinesIn a recent interview, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger suggested the possibility of reconciling the different positions of those involved in the crisis in Ukraine, raising hopes that a resolution could be brokered peacefully. …read more Source: Hoover...
Russia Inadvertently Posts Its Casualties In Ukraine: 2,000 Deaths, 3,200 Disabled
Image credit: ThinkstockAnalysis and Commentaryvia ForbesRussian president Vladimir Putin has decreed that all Russian casualties “in peacetime” be a state secret. In addition to criminal charges arising from divulging state secrets, families risk losing pensions and lump-sum payments if they reveal that their sons were killed in Ukraine....
U.S. Told Ukraine To Stand Down On Crimea
In the Newsquoting Michael McFaulvia Japan TimesAs Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces took over Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in early 2014, the interim Ukrainian government was debating whether or not to fight back against the “little green men” Russia had deployed. …read more Source: Hoover...
