Lionel Beehner asks why we take the military solution off the table when it comes to countries like Russia, but turn to it first when it comes to groups such as ISIS.
Chris Miller argues that suggestions of turning Ukraine into a 'buffer state' as part of an effort to appease Russia will embolden Vladimir Putin to employ the same tactic again in future. America and the West should not suggest a new 'Ukraine Wall' be built in Europe.
Colonel (Ret.) Philip Lisagor on why the Powell Doctrine--real and imagined--is not a magic formula for solving America's strategic decisions when it comes to the use of military force.
Dan Kaszeta reviews Roger Moorhouse's book, The Devils' Alliance, which sheds new light onto the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, creating an alliance between Stalin's USSR and Hitler's Germany, an agreement some in Moscow would rather forget today.
John Kuehn on why the (possible) Russian submarine trapped off the coast of Sweden is Cold War history repeating and why the West should take notice when it comes to naval strategy.
Chris Miller argues Vladimir Putin is following Khrushchev's "surface tension" strategy in Ukraine, bringing Washington and Moscow "eyeball to eyeball" again. But so far, the West is doing the blinking.
It's doubtful Cicero would agree that Putin's incursion into Ukraine constitutes a "just war," argues Lionel Beehner. But there are commonalities between the Roman Empire and Putin's Russia.
As Russia rolls out aid convoys and the same R2P rhetoric it did before its 2008 invasion of Georgia, Lionel Beehner warns that the West must be clear in its support for Kiev.
