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military exercise "Cathare 25", involving over 800 active and reserve military personnel, France, on June 26, 2025.
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How Europe can succeed in post-American world, and why Ukraine is part of answer

by Dalibor Rohac

"I believe we sometimes missed opportunities to listen," Emmanuel Macron told an Eastern European audience at the GLOBSEC Forum held in Bratislava in June 2023, in a speech that sought to bridge the gap between "old" and "new" members of the EU. Quite ironically, Macron's words would be as relevant today as it was back then. Three years on, Europe's "conceptual and strategic awakening," announced by the French president, has yet to materialize. For Europe, habituated to America's security umbre

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Analysis: How Ukraine gained the upper hand in the drone war

More than four years into a full-scale war Russia started but has no clear plan to win or even stop, the balance of power in the drone war has taken a significant shift in favor of Ukraine. Ukrainian drone programs at every level have begun to outperform Russia’s, and in a war that is increasingly defined by these unmanned platforms, this shift has started to produce tangible results not only on the battlefield, but also now in the skies above Russia. "Moscow from now on never sleeps," Robert

A Ukrainian soldier prepares a Baba Yaga drone before a flight in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, on March 23, 2026.

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