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Intelligence, Strategy, and the Reality of Modern Conflict
In this episode of Shifting Ground, Nick Gvosdev and Larry Rubin are joined by Phil Wasielewski, a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. A veteran of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations and the US Marine Corps, Phil brings...
Monthly Highlights | June 2026
Just How Much is Too Much? The Defense Spending Dilemma
Frank Hoffman - Behind the Front
There are certainly arguments for enhancing America’s defenses for tomorrow’s battles, but there is also lots of red ink on the national balance...
How Ukraine’s Drone Campaign is Reshaping the Russian Energy Sector
Vol. 13 | Members Newsletter
This month, two Ukrainian drone strikes hit targets in St. Petersburg, hitting a Russian military base and, dramatically, an oil facility that billowed black smoke as participants gathered at the ann…
Is Time Really on Russia's Side?
Russia’s war against Ukraine has precipitated a large-scale structural decline for the Kremlin across economic, military, and geopolitical dimensions. Domestically, its war-driven economy is consistently strained by rising fiscal pressure,...
American Grand Strategy in West Asia
In this episode of Shifting Ground, Nick Gvosdev and Larry Rubin are joined by Mohammed Soliman, Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute and author of West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East. Soliman challenges our tr...
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Aaron Stein is the President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI).
Philip Wasielewski is the Director of FPRI’s Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare. He had a 31-year career in the Central Intelligence Agency and was a member of the first CIA team into Afghanistan in 2001.
Associate Professor Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nikolas Gvosdev is a senior fellow for national security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and co-editor of Orbis.
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