{"id":11388,"date":"2018-09-05T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T20:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11388"},"modified":"2018-09-05T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T20:02:50","slug":"strategika-issue-53-u-s-engagement-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-53-u-s-engagement-with-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategika Issue 53: U.S. Engagement with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Toe-to-Toe with the Russkis: Is Realistic Engagement with the Russians Still Possible?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Ralph Peters in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"field-blurb field-name-field-research-teaser\">\n<p>In the greatest film ever made about the human dimensions of strategy, director Stanley Kubrick\u2019s Cold-War masterpiece,\u00a0<em>Doctor Strangelove<\/em>, an excited strategic bomber pilot speaks of \u201cnoo-cullar combat, toe-to-toe with the Russkis.\u201d But the lengthy annals of Americans and Russians tramping on each other\u2019s feet followed a brief interlude when we danced the light fantastic to our mutual benefit, with neither side\u2019s dancing shoes scuffed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/toe-toe-russkis-realistic-engagement-russians-still-possible\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Way Forward with Putin and Russia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Chris Gibson in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In late August 2016, I led a Congressional Delegation trip to Israel, Latvia, Poland, and Germany to gather information and build support for the POSTURE Act, a Bill to reverse the Obama administration\u2019s drawdown of U.S. armed forces and deter further Russian aggression in eastern Europe. On day four of that trip we were in Latvia listening intently to Edgars Rinkevics, the Foreign Minister, explain his dismay with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump\u2019s recent comments questioning the relevancy of NATO.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/way-forward-putin-and-russia\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The United States and Russia: Opposite Personalities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Thomas Donnelly in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In his famous 1947 \u201cLong Telegram\u201d and subsequent\u00a0<em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>\u00a0article, George Kennan described what he thought was the \u201cpolitical personality of Soviet power.\u201d It was an effort at what he called a \u201ctask of psychological analysis\u201d to discern a \u201cpattern of thought\u201d and the \u201cnature of the mental world of the Soviet leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/united-states-and-russia-opposite-personalities\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toe-to-Toe with the Russkis: Is Realistic Engagement with the Russians Still Possible? Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Ralph Peters in Strategika. In the greatest film ever made about the human dimensions of strategy, director Stanley Kubrick\u2019s Cold-War masterpiece,\u00a0Doctor Strangelove, an excited strategic bomber pilot speaks of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2XG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11120,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-49-the-value-of-economic-sanctions\/","url_meta":{"origin":11388,"position":0},"title":"Strategika Issue 49: The Value of Economic Sanctions","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Sanctions: The Record And The Rewards Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Josef Joffe in Strategika Why are sanctions so popular? 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The simple answer is that Washington\u2019s nonproliferation policy,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Strategika&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Strategika","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/strategika\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11165,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-50-pakistans-partnership-with-the-united-states\/","url_meta":{"origin":11388,"position":3},"title":"Strategika Issue 50: Pakistan&#8217;s Partnership with the United States","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The United States and Pakistan: Frenemies on the Brink Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Peter R. Mansoor in Strategika. 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