Tag: Russia

Extended Range Cannon Artillery, or ERCA, will provide indirect fires for the brigade combat team and division-level fight. ERCA provides a ten-fold capability through a combination of an increased range, increased rate of fire, increased lethality, increased reliability and a greater survivability.

National Security

‘Not a moment to lose’: Army in chase for long-range precision fires

Abraham Mahshie · August 24, 2020 8:50 pm

Art of a nuclear bomb detonating at the White House.

Beltway Confidential

On nuclear weapons, Vladimir Putin will prefer Biden to Trump

Tom Rogan · August 24, 2020 8:20 pm

In this Thursday, June 8, 2017, file photo, former FBI director James Comey speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington.

Comey claims ‘nobody’ imagined Russia would interfere like it did in 2016. History begs to differ

Jerry Dunleavy · August 24, 2020 5:42 pm

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks to media after voting during a city council election in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Trump must raise Alexei Navalny’s poisoning with Vladimir Putin

Tom Rogan · August 24, 2020 5:34 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting.

German doctors say tests show Putin critic was poisoned

Mike Brest · August 24, 2020 4:16 pm

An empty stretcher is carried back into an ambulance which is believed to have transported Alexei Navalny at the emergency entrance of the Charite hospital in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Aug.22, 2020. The dissident who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning has been transferred from the Siberian city of Omsk. Navalny is flown to Germany to receive treatment.

Anti-Putin critic flown to Germany for emergency medical treatment after apparent poisoning

Spencer Neale · August 22, 2020 8:48 pm

Former Army Green Beret charged with spying for Russia’s GRU

Jerry Dunleavy · August 21, 2020 9:34 pm

In this Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019 file photo Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks during a rally to support political prisoners in Moscow, Russia. Thousands of people are rallying in Moscow to demand the release of those who were arrested during a wave of opposition demonstrations this summer. Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was placed on a ventilator in a hospital intensive care unit in Siberia after falling ill from suspected poisoning during a flight, his spokeswoman said Thursday Aug. 20, 2020.

Putin critic Alexei Navalny cleared to fly to Germany for treatment after suspected poisoning

Zach Halaschak · August 21, 2020 6:24 pm

"We literally have been purposefully, because of this purposeful policy, flying blind in terms of intelligence," Ron Johnson said. (AP Photo)

Ron Johnson subpoenas ex-State Department official to testify about deleting Christopher Steele communications

Jerry Dunleavy · August 21, 2020 6:12 pm

And that matters, because while Putin is notoriously unamused by claims that he misuses state finances to benefit himself, that's exactly what he does. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Russia tries to cover up Alexey Navalny poisoning

Tom Rogan · August 21, 2020 6:08 pm

Russian doctors claim leading Putin critic was not poisoned, block his flight to Germany for treatment

Zach Halaschak · August 21, 2020 4:10 pm

Beltway Confidential

Five key national security issues Joe Biden didn’t adequately address

Tom Rogan · August 21, 2020 3:46 am