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Intelligence and ‘MAD’ Management (1962 – 1977): Another Excerpt From “U.S.-Russian Exceptionalism: Intelligence, MAD, and Détente”

Intelligence and ‘MAD’ Management (1962 – 1977): Another Excerpt From “U.S.-Russian Exceptionalism: Intelligence, MAD, and Détente”

By Alan Nasif on October 1, 2022

During the horrid thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, had President Kennedy not been made privy to proper and punctual intelligence,…

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Ukraine Crisis [Part IX: It Is in the United States and Europe’s Best Strategic Interest That Russia Shouldn’t “Lose” in Ukraine]Ukraine crisis

Ukraine Crisis [Part IX: It Is in the United States and Europe’s Best Strategic Interest That Russia Shouldn’t “Lose” in Ukraine]

By Alan Nasif on September 21, 2022

What I find most disconcerting at present, almost seven months into the war in Ukraine, is the popular oblivion to the actual peril and the…

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Why the “Russians Are Abandoning Their Posts and Fleeing Battle” Fairy Tale Is, Simply, Too Good to Be True: Away From Strategy, Just Pure LogicRussian forces retreat

Why the “Russians Are Abandoning Their Posts and Fleeing Battle” Fairy Tale Is, Simply, Too Good to Be True: Away From Strategy, Just Pure Logic

By Alan Nasif on September 12, 2022

If you’ve accessed any social media platform over the past few days, you surely have come across “Breaking News” from mainstream media on the miraculous,…

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Post-Soviet Russian-Western Relations [Part III: Prelude. the Club of First-rate States]Russian-Western relations

Post-Soviet Russian-Western Relations [Part III: Prelude. the Club of First-rate States]

By Alan Nasif on August 24, 2022

Upon the dramatic failure of perestroika, the ruse of NATO ‘non-enlargement’ associated with the Two-Plus-Four German unification treaty, and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact…

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President Biden Has Sacrificed U.S.– Saudi, and Incidentally GCC, Relations at the Altar of “Political Correctness”

President Biden Has Sacrificed U.S.– Saudi, and Incidentally GCC, Relations at the Altar of “Political Correctness”

By Alan Nasif on July 20, 2022

Rectification always begins with the recognition of error. Let’s face it; the United States has lost the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over one electoral…

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