What Thucydides Really Thought About Power; The Military and the Republic; The Ukraine Lesson Taiwan Keeps Missing
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July 10, 2026 | View in Browser | Sponsored by Atlas Network

 

This week’s highlights:

- The Strong Do What They Can—and Suffer What They Must by Jonathan Kirshner

- The Military and the Republic by Charles Q. Brown, Jr., Peter D. Feaver, and Andrew Kragie

- The Ukraine Lesson Taiwan Keeps Missing by David Petraeus and Clara Kaluderovic

- The Transatlantic Alliance Can’t Survive Without Trust by Wolfgang Ischinger

- Podcast: Oriana Skylar Mastro discusses how Beijing aims to exploit a disordered world

- Trump Is Remaking Latin America by Brian Winter

- How Europe Can Get Putin’s Attention by Alexander Gabuev

 

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The Strong Do What They Can—and Suffer What They Must

What Thucydides Really Thought About Power

By Jonathan Kirshner

 
Members of the National Guard near the Washington Monument, Washington, D.C., June 2026

The Military and the Republic

What America’s Armed Forces Can—and Cannot—Do for Democracy

By Charles Q. Brown, Jr., Peter D. Feaver, and Andrew Kragie

 
A Taiwanese soldier operating a drone during a military exercise in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, January 2026

The Ukraine Lesson Taiwan Keeps Missing

It’s Not the Drones—It’s Everything Around Them

By David Petraeus and Clara Kaluderovic

 
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in Brussels, June 2026

The Transatlantic Alliance Can’t Survive Without Trust

Washington Dismisses NATO’s Value at Its Own Peril

By Wolfgang Ischinger

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