Post-2017 demonstrations of North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capability have reinvigorated questions about how the United States can engage missile threats in their boost and ascent phases. When intercepting an ICBM early, speed matters. By increasing interceptor speed from 4km/s to 5km/s, it can allow for multiple engagements at a North Korean missile.

SOURCE: "Boost-Phase Missile Defense" by CSIS's Ian Williams, Masao Dahlgren, Thomas G. Roberts, and Tom Karako.

While sanctions froze most of Russia’s overseas assets, Russia continues to receive revenues from its energy exports. Russia is still earning roughly $1 billion per day in export revenues from oil and gas, with China and India as the two main purchasers of seaborne Russian oil that would otherwise have gone to Europe.

SOURCE: "Strangling the Bear? The Sanctions on Russia after Four Months" by CSIS's Gerard DiPippo.

Biometric technology has played a pivotal role in processing Ukrainians fleeing the conflict. As of 2021, over 13 million Ukrainians—more than one-third of the adult population—were using Diia, a smartphone app serving as a digital wallet for electronic versions of many official Ukrainian government documents. In the context of the war, these types of platforms have proven useful to refugees without physical copies of important documents.

SOURCE: "Ukrainian Refugees: Forced Displacement Response Goes Fully Digital" by CSIS's Lauren Burke, Catherine Nzuki, Erol Yayboke, and Anastasia Strouboulis.

According to a report from the Munich Security Conference, while the United States operates two different types of 152 mm/155 mm howitzers, Europe operates 27. However, if Europe were divest from its many different types of howitzers and rebuild its equipment stocks with fewer variants, it could lead to a more interoperable NATO force and pave the way for a true European pillar of NATO.

SOURCE: "Europe Needs Its Own Ukraine Assistance Act" by CSIS's Max Bergmann.