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Russian Entanglement

ACW Podcast | Jun 27, 2024 | Relevancy Score: 19.26

…about the risks and justifications for bringing EW systems into a conflict, and discuss James Acton’s idea of modern entanglement, and the connection between modern conventional and nuclear operations. Support…

 

Pentagon Blocks Ukraine Strikes

ACW Podcast | Sep 02, 2025 | Relevancy Score: 19.26

…ATACMs, Storm Shadow and other systems that need US targeting data. Jeffrey and Aaron talk about what we already knew, what we didn’t, and what it all mean. Hint: Allies…

 

The Oreshnik IRBM

ACW Podcast | Nov 22, 2024 | Relevancy Score: 19.26

…first use of an IRBM (though not at IRBM ranges) and possibly MIRV (though conventional!) in combat.  Jeffrey and Aaron talk about Russia’s new Oreshnik missile, what it is, its…

 

Russian Nuclear Doctrine in the Financial Times

ACW Podcast | Mar 10, 2024 | Relevancy Score: 19.26

…in a war scenario with China.  Jeffrey and Aaron go through what the documents reveal and debate if they’re generally consistant with what is understood about Russian nuclear doctrine or,…

 

Fly Burevestnik Fly!

ACW Podcast | Aug 22, 2025 | Relevancy Score: 19.26

…up, noting how awkward all this was coming, as it did, just as Putin flew to Alaska to meet with Donald Trump. Aaron and Jeffrey talk about the OSINT and…

 

Russia Goes Random: Iskander-M’s Ballistic Missile Defense Evasion

Seth Hosford | Aug 13, 2025 | Relevancy Score: 19.26

…aeroballistic missile gets picked up on radar, ‘rest assured that the missile will perform some erratic maneuvers on its aeroballistic trajectory.’ Interesting point, but what we know about ballistic missiles…

 

Iran and Israel’s Missile War

ACW Podcast | May 18, 2024 | Relevancy Score: 19.26

…BMD analysis.  Jeffrey and Aaron also talk about the relative impact of conventional ballistic missiles, and what secondary effects must be considered when assessing the value of interceptors vs. offensive…

 

A Return to Nuclear Testing

ACW Podcast | Nov 03, 2025 | Relevancy Score: 19.26

…of Energy does all the time in lots of different ways.  Some people worried this meant a return to explosive testing, others seemed to think it was about delivery systems. …

 

Oppenheimer

ACW Podcast | Aug 15, 2023 | Relevancy Score: 19.26

…intentional rendering of power politics and personal animus within the U.S. security apparatus.  Kelsey penned a companion piece over at the Arms Control Wonk Blog, talking about the wider related…

 

Iran’s (Not So) Integrated Air Defenses at Natanz

Sam Lair | May 19, 2025 | Relevancy Score: 19.26

…also shows one of the radars’s “coverage fan.”  Based on the size of the fan, the radar appears to have a range of about 120 km, which is consistent with…