Michael DiCianna

It’s not nice to hear what’s said about any of us in private. People sometimes express very blunt opinions. So it was with Vice President JD Vance’s comments on the old continent in private Signal app messages accidentally given to the Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief and published on March 24, where terms such […]

There’s always a worry in war that things will suddenly turn against you; that the enemy will advance and that you will lose. Ask Winston Churchill or George Washington. Ukraine, like 20th-century Britain and 18th-century revolutionary America, is fighting for its existence against a more heavily armed power. The key

There is something slow but inevitable in the strategic changes in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Two years have shown that Russia’s horrific invasion will not be stopped by anything but force. Russia’s military industry has ramped up faster than the West’s, providing Russian forces with an overwhelming weight of fire. Western capitals

Since 2008, Russia has occupied Georgia and poisoned Tbilisi’s politics, its hybrid warfare has threatened to erode European borders, and refugee crises have moved through Southeastern and Central Europe to the Nordics and Baltics. The West’s response has been pusillanimous and ineffective. After the full-scale invasion of 2022, a US-led

The 600-plus fortifications and other measures announced in January will spread across the Baltic states and will border both Russia and Belarus. The aim, a fundamental change in approach, will seek to channel any Russian invasion toward massive mobility hurdles in the form of bunkers likely stocked with reserves of mines, barbed wire, and

As 2024 begins, the global threat to American interests is on the rise as the interests of adversaries continue to align. However, Washington policymakers appear either unable or uninterested in displaying resolve. The late Henry Kissinger noted, “Convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they