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Pentagon

Even if Congress reaches a deal early next year and aid begins to flow again, the days of a new Ukraine supplemental getting passed every couple months are long gone.
Julia Ioffe • December 19, 2023

Ukraine’s Money Cliff

With Congress stiff-arming Zelensky, and military funds running out, experts and members of the administration worry that, long-term, without additional aid, “the Ukrainians are doomed.”
Julia Ioffe • October 3, 2023
Ukraine’s Darth Vader & The Pentagon’s Voodoo Economics
Robert Fico
On one level, it’s been a terrible week for Ukraine: the House passed a CR that doesn’t include aid and Slovakia, its neighbor, elected a pro-Russian madman. But actually, believe it or not, things aren’t quite as bad as they seem—at least not yet.
Julia Ioffe • April 18, 2023
Intelligence Gossip & A Leak Postmortem
The emerging consensus seems to be that Airman Jack Teixeira’s leak, while plenty damaging, could have been far worse.
Two weeks after a stunning and embarrassing intelligence breach, official Washington is finally coming to terms with the reality of what got out, what might follow, and why this keeps happening.
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Julia Ioffe • November 29, 2022
Inside Putin’s War of Attrition
Munitions are running low on both sides of the Ukraine conflict as military suppliers race to keep pace with Russia’s furious, WWI-like shelling. The artillery-heavy strategy is forcing the Pentagon to rethink its very notion of modern war.