MOSCOW — For nearly a quarter of a century, the political survival of Vladimir Putin has rested upon an unspoken social contract with the Russian populace and the elite class:...
KYIV, UKRAINE — In an era defined by multi-million-dollar Patriot batteries, hypersonic interceptors, and complex electronic jamming suites, the cutting edge of modern aerial warfare has taken a surprisingly rustic...
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE — For months, the asphalt highway snaking downward from the southern steppes toward the Crimean Peninsula has served as the precarious lifeline for the Kremlin’s southern military architecture....
SIMFEROPOL, CRIMEA — For a dozen years, the asphalt ribbon stretching across the Kerch Strait and winding through the southern steppe was touted by Moscow as a monument to destiny....
WARSAW — Somewhere over the cold, grey waters of the Baltic Sea, a phantom aircraft routinely carves through international airspace without a transponder, without a filed flight plan, and without...
RIGA, Latvia — For five years, the regime of Alexander Lukashenko and its master in Moscow waged a quiet, cynical kind of warfare that required not a single tank or...
WASHINGTON — In the high-stakes calculus of modern military confrontation, few structures are held in higher architectural reverence than the subterranean redoubt. For decades, regional adversaries have burrowed deep into...
MOSCOW — For decades, the towering stalinist architecture of the Russian capital served as a concrete manifestation of absolute power and untouchable security. Inside these imposing walls, far removed from...
VILNIUS, Lithuania — In a quiet, highly coordinated operation that reshaped the geopolitical map of Northern Europe, engineers in Lithuania threw a series of heavy industrial switches. With that single,...
KYIV — Along the cratered asphalt of the Zaporizhzhia route, under a high summer sky dominated by the quiet hum of surveillance technology, a stark geopolitical reality is unfolding. A...