Emerging Risks

Vladimir Putin sees West as gloating in post-Cold War era, trying to muscle into Russia's historical sphere of influence, analysts say.

Russia has passed the United States in the nuclear weapons category. Their new generation of tactical nuclear weapons is superior to ours, and they are expanding other capabilities. Which would be bad enough if our nuclear weapons actually worked well and were ready if we ever needed them. But we have some issues and no one wants to even work on them anymore, erroneously thinking that nuclear deterrence is an obsolete relict of the Cold War.

U.S. currently lacks strategy to counter political, information warfare threats from states and terrorists

Below is a transcript of tonight's monologue Russia has been chipping away at a master plan, a plan that few, if any, have even taken note of, and no one has shown you. You know the history. We’ve shown it to you, and the brain behind it all. Tonight, we’re going to try to show you what possibly co...

In The Wall Street Journal, Garry Kasparov writes that Islamists set the time machine to the Dark Ages. Putin dreams of czarist Russia. A common enemy: America.

Could a U.S. response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine provoke a confrontation that leads to a U.S.-Russian war?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has memorably called the breakup of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics a tragedy, and that has led many to believe that he is hoping to restore the old USSR as he consolidates control within Russia and projects military power outward into Ukraine and beyond

A growing chorus of analysts and policymakers are sounding the alarm. Will the world hear them in time?

As America lurches from crisis to crisis, our foreign policy elites can't even agree on our principal adversary

As the Minsk accord seems to collapse, new military dangers loom.

The odds of a war, while remote, are no longer negligible.

On April 21, the Center hosted an event to discuss the new National Interest cover story “Russia and America: Stumbling to War,” by Graham Allison, Director ...

Russia had all but disappeared from the international arena in the last couple of weeks, particularly following the July 14 signing of the international de-nuclearization deal reached with Iran. Indeed, as long as the pause in the Ukraine war holds, Moscow’s opinions on international relations attract little attention because its ability to influence key global matters has shrunk to irrelevance. …

The 1987 Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles—known as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty—was one of the most significant arms-reduction accomplishments of the Cold War era.

Here come Moscow's robots.

Edward Lucas reviews “Putinism” by Walter Laqueur and “Putin’s Russia” edited by Leon Aron.

Here comes Air-Sea-Swarm Battle?

War games show NATO’s eastern flank is vulnerable. To deter Moscow, the United States will need to deploy heavy armor on a large scale, a…

Looking at military exercises shows how something called the security dilemma puts Europe at risk.

NATO officials argued that Moscow was dangerously blurring the line between conventional and nuclear war.

Russia has warned citizens that a nuclear war with the West could be imminent - sparked by clashes in the Middle East. Officials said on Friday that underground shelters had been built which could house 12 milion people - enough for the entire population of Moscow. Russia has clashed with the Western

Bloomberg News reports that "Russian state television is back on a war footing," as tensions over the collapse of the Syrian ceasefire mount.

Russian media outlets have asked viewers if they're ready for nuclear war.

Russian media outlets have asked viewers if they're ready for nuclear war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin could be prepping for new world war as relations with the United States and other Western countries continue to disintegrate, according to a reported in The New York Post and other media.Putin has reportedly ordered top Russian officials,...

Russia's cyber campaign against the U.S. is just another form of war

With tensions between Russia and the United States at their highest since the Cold War, there have been alarming signs coming out of Moscow that suggest the country is ready for war. Almost no one believes the Kremlin is actually preparing for a military conflict with the United States. Most...

On October 19, the Brookings Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence hosted a discussion in context of General Shirreff’s new novel, “War with Russ...

Russia and the West have entered a new Cold War that could lead to growing confrontations across the globe, as Vladimir Putin challenges American international hegemony.

Russian authorities have stepped up nuclear-war survival measures amid a showdown with Washington, dusting off Soviet-era civil-defense plans and upgrading bomb shelters in the biggest cities