🎙Counterbalance | Reporting From the Front Lines in Ukraine

Hudson Research Fellow James Barnett is newly back from Ukraine's western and southern regions to share his war-reporting experience on the latest episode of Counterbalance with Marshall Kosloff. Listen as he shares about buoyed Ukrainian morale in the midst of Russia's invasion, which is becoming a nation-defining moment for the Ukrainian people.

Pentagon Must 'Campaign' Against China

A U.S. Marine in Appari, Philippines, March 28, 2022, during Balikatan, a bilateral exercise between the U.S. and Philippines. (Photo by United States Marine Corps)

Bryan Clark and Dan Patt argue in Defense One that the U.S. military should quickly adopt ‘campaigning,’ to prevent hostilities against allies and partners. Campaigning orchestrates military activities alongside economic, diplomatic, and information actions. If the U.S. intelligence community’s insight into China’s internal decision-making is on par with what it demonstrated with Russia, Pentagon planners could use Chinese assessments of U.S. actions to develop and refine a dissuasion campaign in the coming months and years.

Putin's Ukraine War Roils US-India Ties

U.S. President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and their delegations hold a virtual meeting on April 11, 2022. (Getty Images)

Whatever Indians think of Vladimir Putin, New Delhi sees Moscow as a valuable source of weapons, an indispensable partner in Afghanistan, and, if not driven into China’s arms, a valuable counterweight to Chinese power in Central Asia and beyond. To succeed in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. must learn to incorporate the outlook of great powers like India into its thinking, even as it gives priority to the stability and friendship of small but strategic states like the Solomon Islands, writes Walter Russell Mead in The Wall Street Journal. 

Virtual Event | Defending Guam

A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched during a successful intercept test. (U.S. Army)

Join Hudson Institute for a two-part panel examining Guam and its significance for U.S. power projection in the Western Pacific. The Indo-Pacific Command and the Missile Defense Agency have made the island a top defense priority given its exposure to China and North Korea. The first panel will discuss the risk of Chinese aggression against Taiwan and the role that Guam could play in American deterrence, followed by a panel exploring solutions for defending and utilizing Guam.

🎙Making a Killing | Sanctioning Russia's War Crimes in Ukraine

Growing evidence of war crimes perpetrated by Russian forces in Ukraine has compelled the U.S. to enforce additional sanctions against the Kremlin. But do these measures go far enough to deter further attacks on civilians? Hudson Senior Fellow and former U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary Marshall Billingslea joins Nate Sibley to discuss the actions needed to deplete Putin's war chest.

BEFORE YOU GO...

With just weeks until roll out, the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific Economic Framework may be doomed to fail, argues Riley Walters in The Hill. Unless the Biden administration commits more resources and market access to partners in Asia, the framework will be more or less forgotten by the end of the year.