While the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska underscored the Arctic’s decisive importance, there was another signal coming from just offshore: Russian and Chinese naval forces conducting a joint exercise near the Aleutians.
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In August 2008, as Russian tanks rolled into Georgia’s Tskhinvali Region, not self-proclaimed South Ossetia, Georgian government websites were under cyber siege. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, defaced portals, and data theft disrupted communications as Georgian officials tried to urgently reach Western leaders, some on vacation, others attending the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony.
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A record-breaking earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has triggered tsunami alerts across the Pacific and raised urgent questions about the safety of nuclear weapons stored near one of the world’s most active seismic zones. How vulnerable is Russia’s undersea arsenal — and what does this mean for global security?
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As a former Strategic War Planner for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, student at the United States Army War College, and Professor of Strategy at the National War College, I spent my formative years on active duty reading and analyzing both the theory and practice of some of the world’s theorists and practitioners of the art of warfare. Among them were Sun Tzu the great Chinese general and strategist whose seminal work “The Art of War” has endured from its inception 600 BC until today and Carl Von Clausewitz a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the psychological and political aspects of waging war in his “On War” in which contains his maxim “war is the continuation of politics by other means.”
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In the shadows of Cold War tensions, beneath the surface of the Sea of Japan, a little-known but significant event unfolded in August 1957 that marked a turning point in submarine espionage and international maritime confrontations. The USS Gudgeon (SS-567), a U.S. Navy submarine, became the first American submarine forced to surface by a foreign power during the Cold War—a moment that revealed the fragility of Cold War boundaries and the stakes of underwater intelligence gathering.
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A series of blasts at airbases deep inside Russia on June 1, 2025, came as a rude awakening to Moscow’s military strategists. The Ukrainian strike at the heart Russia’s strategic bombing capability could also upend the traditional rules of war: It provides smaller military a blueprint for countering a larger nation’s ability to launch airstrikes from deep behind the front lines.
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