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September 29, 2020

Scorekeeping in Nagorno-Karabakh. On Monday, day two of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan, losses continued to mount. Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave at the center of the fight, said 53 of its soldiers died fighting Azerbaijani forces on Monday, a day after self-reporting 31 deaths. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan published videos of the fighting and made […]

The Fighting in the Caucasus

September 29, 2020

Fighting has broken out again over Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave inside Azerbaijan nominally controlled by Azerbaijan but governed by ethnic Armenians. Since the fall of...

Daily Memo: Clashes in the Caucasus

September 28, 2020

Renewed fighting. Clashes erupted in the restive Nagorno-Karabakh region between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Sunday, as both countries declared martial law and accused each...

Can China Still Export Its People’s War?

September 28, 2020

Earlier this summer, as the Indian government scrambled to curry support both at home and abroad for its bare-knuckle standoff against China in the...

Daily Memo: The Future of the US Navy

September 25, 2020

You sank my drone. The Pentagon is expected to release its long-awaited “Future Navy Force Study” in the coming weeks. It looks like the...

Russia Plays It Cool With Belarus

September 25, 2020

On Sept. 23, Alexander Lukashenko officially took office as president of Belarus again. It wasn’t your typical inauguration ceremony, the date of which was...

Daily Memo: More Protests in Belarus, Food Stress in China

September 24, 2020

Belarus after the inauguration. Protests began on Wednesday in Minsk after the inauguration ceremony of President Alexander Lukashenko, which had not been publicly announced...

Daily Memo: Frozen Deployments in the Himalayas, Lukashenko’s Secret Inauguration

September 23, 2020

China and India freeze troop deployments. Senior Chinese and Indian military officials agreed to refrain from sending additional troops to their contested border between...

Washington’s New Economic Strategy in Latin America

September 23, 2020

A few weeks ago, the head of the U.S. National Security Council – not a State Department official, as would normally be the protocol...

Daily Memo: Taiwan Won’t Shoot First

September 22, 2020

Eroding barriers to escalation in the Indo-Pacific. Taiwan’s government said Monday that its pilots would not be the first to fire on Chinese military...

The New Middle East Alliance

September 22, 2020

During his visit to Saudi Arabia in May 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a plan to establish the Middle East Strategic Alliance, a...

Daily Memo: US Sanctions on Iran, Germany’s Slow Recovery

September 21, 2020

Russian drills. The Caucasus 2020 military drills began on Monday in Russia’s Southern Military District. Roughly 80,000 personnel from Russia’s air, naval and special...

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