Russia may still value ties with the West just enough to be more flexible in its demands to Ukraine. Read it here.

A new biography illustrates the career of one of the architects of American Cold War policy. Read it here.

Larger and costlier nuclear weapons deployments are predicated on the assumption that nuclear weapons are a necessary and sufficient deterrent to a major war. But that assumption is now under widespread challenge. Read it here.

Though ideologically opposed, the Yemeni and Somalian terrorist groups may soon exchange money and arms. Read it here.

The gulf’s value to U.S. strategy certainly is not worth additional defense obligations to the region. Read it here.