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The Autonomous Battlefield

David Petraeus, Isaac C. Flanagan
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The Curse of Middle-Sized Wars

Robert D. Kaplan
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Iran’s Drone Advantage

Michael C. Horowitz, Lauren A. Kahn
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The Abiding Question of the Iranian Bomb

Richard Nephew
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America and Israel’s War to Remake the Middle East

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Daniel Byman
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One Man’s War

Stephen Pomper
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China’s AI Arsenal

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Michael C. Desch
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On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War

Andrew Moravcsik
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Ukraine and the New Way of War

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AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex

Lawrence D. Freedman
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Imperfect Equilibrium: Civil-Military Relations in Russian Defense Policymaking

Maria Lipman
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The Warhead: The Quest to Build the Perfect Weapon in the Age of Modern Warfare

Lawrence D. Freedman
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What America Must Learn From Ukraine

Michael Brown, Matt Kaplan
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Ukraine’s War of Endurance

Michael Kofman
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The Price of Peace in Ukraine

Peter Slezkine , Joshua Shifrinson
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Israel Is Quietly Annexing the West Bank

Shira Efron
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How the War in Sudan Could End

Volker Perthes
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Europe’s Next Hegemon

Liana Fix
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Strength Over Peace

Jeffrey A. Friedman
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The Unsettling Implications of Xi’s Military Purge

Christopher Johnson
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Afghanistan and Pakistan Square Off

Michael Kugelman
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Fortress Ukraine

Eric Ciaramella , Sophia Besch
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The Only Way to Disarm Hamas

Elliott Abrams, Eric Edelman, Rena Gabber
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Iran and the Limits of American Power

Andrew P. Miller
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Why Putin Still Prefers War

Andrei Kolesnikov
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What Comes Next in Venezuela

Phil Gunson, Juan S. Gonzalez

What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About National Security

Margaret Mullins
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The War That Outgrew Sudan

Alex de Waal
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The Fog of AI

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How Deepfakes Could Lead to Doomsday

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How to Secure the Sky

Theodore Bunzel, Tom Donilon
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Gaza’s New Normal

Daniel Byman
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The Middle East’s Most Overlooked Threat

April Longley Alley
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The Fog of McNamara

Fredrik Logevall
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Securing Peace in Europe: Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia After the Cold War

Maria Lipman
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The Vietnam People’s Army: From People’s Warfare to Military Modernization?

Elizabeth Economy
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Military Theory and the Conduct of War

Lawrence D. Freedman
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Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire

Maria Lipman
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Four Books on World War II

Lawrence D. Freedman
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America’s Drone Delusion

Justin Bronk
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The Time to End the War in Ukraine Is Now

Thomas Graham
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How Much Abuse Can America’s Allies Take?

Robert E. Kelly, Paul Poast
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America’s Magical Thinking About Ukraine

Sergey Radchenko
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The Paradox of Europe’s Trumpian Right

Ivan Krastev
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America Unbound in the Caribbean

Brian Finucane
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Moscow’s Offshore Menace

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How to Topple Maduro

Elliott Abrams
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Moritz S. Graefrath, Mark A. Raymond
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Ukraine’s Hardest Winter

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How War in Taiwan Ends

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Taiwan Is Not for Sale

Marvin Park, David Sacks
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Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age

Lawrence D. Freedman
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Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War

Lawrence D. Freedman
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Who Is to Blame for the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza?

Yechiel (Michael) Leiter, Andy Hall

The Cracks in Russia’s War Economy

Alexandra Prokopenko
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Will the War in Gaza Really End?

Shira Efron, Khaled Elgindy, Daniel B. Shapiro

The Dilemma of Duty Under Trump

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Israel’s Vision of Victory

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Hamas Is Not Done Fighting

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Fighting China, Fast and Slow

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The Reeducation of Russia’s Military

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Taiwan’s Plan for Peace Through Strength

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How Russia Recovered

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A Snapback Solution for Ukraine

Samuel Charap, Jeremy Shapiro
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The U.S.-China Crisis Waiting to Happen

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The Middle East That Israel Has Made

Galip Dalay, Sanam Vakil
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The Proliferation Problem Is Back

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Ernest J. Moniz, Meghan L. O’Sullivan
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The Only Security Guarantee Ukraine Can Trust

Andriy Zagorodnyuk
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Nobody Lost Taiwan

Philip H. Gordon, Ryan Hass
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Funding Europe’s Firepower

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Iran’s Perilous Path Back to Power

Afshon Ostovar
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What Israel Wants

Meir Ben-Shabbat, Asher Fredman
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A Better Way for Europe to Guarantee Ukraine’s Security

Ivo H. Daalder
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The North Korean Way of Proliferation

Vipin Narang, Pranay Vaddi
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Can Israel Save Itself?

Ami Ayalon

A Palestinian State Would Be Good for Israel

Richard Haass
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Don’t Abandon AUKUS

Gary Roughead, Marise Payne, Nicholas Carter, James Mattis
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How to Arm Ukraine for Negotiations

Michael McFaul
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The New Hamas Insurgency

Leila Seurat
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Putin’s Play for Time

Alexander Gabuev
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Ukraine Will Not Be a Pawn

Dmytro Kuleba
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China’s North Korea Problem

Shuxian Luo
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Russia’s Imperial Black Sea Strategy

Daniel S. Hamilton, Angela Stent
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By Land or by Sea

S. C. M. Paine
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China’s Quest for Military Supremacy

Elizabeth Economy
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Iran’s Roads Not Taken

Vali Nasr
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Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security

Jessica T. Mathews
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In Denial?

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Pivotal Poland: Europe’s Rising Power

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The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism During the Second World War

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