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Fast, Cheap, and Faster: Lessons from the Drone Battlefield in Ukraine
By Yuri Lapaiev
Mar 3
Japan's Pivot to the Middle Corridor
By Vusal Guliyev
Mar 2
New Report! NATO's Spanish Road 2.0: Poland's Lifeline to Ukraine
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Feb 26
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"We are in Trouble": General Ivashov Sounds the Alarm on Russia's Decline Under Putin
Jan 1
Welcome to The Saratoga Foundation!
Oct 2, 2024
New Report! A Systems View of Russia’s Early Failure in Ukraine
Aug 25, 2025
Expert Outlook on the Caucasus for 2025
Jan 4, 2025
Expert Outlook on Russian Threats to the 2 Bs: Baltic and Black Seas
Jan 6, 2025
Watch Now! Russia’s Danube Attack and its Implications for NATO and Black Sea Security
Sep 10, 2025

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Somaliland’s Port of Berbera: A Strategic Prize in the Gulf of Aden
by Andrew McGregor
Feb 20
New Report! Escalation by Design: Russian Objectives in Ukraine — Proxy Warfare to Invasion (2014–22)
by Roger N. McDermott
Feb 17
Saratoga Op-Ed: How Poland and Lithuania Are Defending the Suwalki Corridor
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Feb 11
TRIPP and the Rise of a Trans-Regional Energy Corridor in the South Caucasus
by Vasif Huseynov
Feb 9
Crossing the Rubicon: Russia’s Elite Drone Force and the Evolution of Unmanned Warfare in Ukraine
by Yuri Lapaiev
Feb 5

Eurasia Outlook

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Fast, Cheap, and Faster: Lessons from the Drone Battlefield in Ukraine
By Yuri Lapaiev
Mar 3
Japan's Pivot to the Middle Corridor
By Vusal Guliyev
Mar 2
From Dubai to Donetsk: The Kyrgyzstan–UAE Transit Nexus in Russia’s Clandestine Starlink Supply Chain
by Sergey Sukhankin
Feb 23
Somaliland’s Port of Berbera: A Strategic Prize in the Gulf of Aden
by Andrew McGregor
Feb 20

Kremlin Strategic Failure

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New Report! Escalation by Design: Russian Objectives in Ukraine — Proxy Warfare to Invasion (2014–22)
by Roger N. McDermott
Feb 17
New Report! The War-Laboratory: Ukraine and the Future of Russian Warfighting
by Roger N. McDermott
Oct 2, 2025
New Report! A Systems View of Russia’s Early Failure in Ukraine
by Roger N. McDermott
Aug 25, 2025
New Report! Russia’s General Staff: The Search for Lessons Learned in Ukraine
by Roger N. McDermott
Aug 4, 2025

Kitaizatsiya: China's Expanding Role in Russia

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Kitaizatsiya: China in Russia, Newsletter, Issue No. 7
BRIEFS Russian Tourists Flock to China as Blagovechensk Creates Cable Car Crossing to Heihe
Feb 25
Kitaizatsiya: China in Russia, Newsletter, Issue No.6
BRIEFS:
Jan 21
Kitaizatsiya: China in Russia, Newsletter, Issue No.5
BRIEFS Tuva Seeks Chinese Backing for Railway Linked to Rare Earth Deposits
Dec 18, 2025
Kitaizatsiya: China in Russia, Newsletter, Issue No.4
BRIEFS Moscow Asks Beijing for Access to Rare Earth Technology
Nov 20, 2025
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