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Whatever intrigues me--these days the Russo-Ukraine War with regular departures. Click to read Phillips’s Newsletter, by Phillips […] [bridged from https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/ on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/phillipspobrien.substack.com ]

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Easier Said Than Done: Hybrid Deterrence By Punishment This week, Minna Ålander turns to the question of how to move from defensive reactions to Russian hybrid warfare to an effective deterrent. (Spoiler: not easy)
10.10.2025 10:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Something Interesting Is Happening With GOP Public Opinion Hi All,
09.10.2025 09:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Does Europe Really Want to Save Itself? We will know Sooner Than Many Understand.
07.10.2025 09:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekend Update #153: The Land War Is Hardening; The Air War Is Broadening Has Trump's Rhetorical Change Meant Anything Concrete?
05.10.2025 08:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Resilience Dilemma In this week’s Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander reflects on the fact that deterrence by resilience clearly does not work.
04.10.2025 10:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Attacking An Oil Production System Some Of The Nuts And Bolts--Starting With Refineries
03.10.2025 09:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What The White House Seems To Be Hearing About Russian Power Plus: Does Trump Have Hurt Feelings?
01.10.2025 09:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Adam Kinzinger and Phillips OBrien Substack Live A recording from Phillips P. OBrien's live video
29.09.2025 19:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekend Update #152: Oil Production And Logistics Trump Speaks The Truth But Offers Ukraine Nothing; A Note On Narratives
28.09.2025 08:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Harping On Ukrainian Manpower Shows How Little Analysts Understand War Packing the front line with more infantry over the last two years would have made little difference and could have weakened Ukraine
27.09.2025 08:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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To Shoot or Not To Shoot Down Russian Jets Some probably unpopular opinions in this week's Europe Dispatch by Minna Ålander.
25.09.2025 09:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ukraine Can Win The War The Narrative Shift Alone Is Important
24.09.2025 06:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Update On The Ukrainian Campaign Against Russian Refineries Hi All,
23.09.2025 06:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekend Update #151: The Most Revealing Military Development Of The Last Month The Ukrainian Attacks On Refineries Continue: Is US Intelligence Changing Its Tune?
21.09.2025 07:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Framework For Constructing Tomorrow's Militaries A Checklist To Understand What Needs To Be Created--And What Definitely Does Not
19.09.2025 11:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Layer-Cake Model: European Minilateralisms Europe's layered defence formats enable action even without US leadership, but lack of an overarching structure beyond NATO is a challenge, Minna Ålander writes in the Europe Dispatch.
18.09.2025 14:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The US Alienation of India is Backfiring Badly Hello All,
16.09.2025 16:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekend Update #150: Range, Range, Range Also: Russia Attacks Poland; The USA Unilaterally Ends Some Sanctions
14.09.2025 08:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Strategy For Democratic Survival--And Fightback Hi All,
13.09.2025 08:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Substack Live With Terry Virts A recording from Phillips P. OBrien's live video
11.09.2025 15:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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War Is In the Eye Of the Beholder The State of the European Union speech took place while the Russian drone incursion into Poland was still unfolding. And that's pretty much the state of the EU, Minna Ålander writes.
11.09.2025 10:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NATO States Have Failed They have not prepared and do not understand their national interests
10.09.2025 08:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stop Blaming Elbridge Colby The Policies of Protecting Putin And Harming Ukraine Are Trump's
09.09.2025 09:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekend Update #149: The Ranged Campaign Against Russian Oil Production Continues Russian Ground Advances Slow; Putin Wants To Live Forever--So Maybe Won't Nuke The World
07.09.2025 07:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Schrödinger’s GPS Jamming and Not So Hybrid Warfare Russia may or may not have GPS-jammed the EU Commission president's plane. In any case there was no response, Minna Ålander recounts in the Europe Dispatch.
06.09.2025 09:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Episode 29. We Are Back: The Situation On The Battlefield In Ukraine and The Strategic Air War Hi Everyone,
05.09.2025 04:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Strategic Air Campaign For Ukraine Reflections On Responses
03.09.2025 14:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The US Disaster With India Has Reached The Grovelling Stage And It Has NOTHING To Do With Helping Ukraine
01.09.2025 08:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekend Update #148: Breakthrough? What Breakthrough? Collapse? What Collapse? Russia Attacks Civilians, Ukraine Attacks Strategic Industries; Pokrovsk Versus Oil Refineries--One Of These Is Strategic, The Other Not.
31.08.2025 08:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Strategic Air Campaign For Ukraine: Crushing Russian Mobility Through Oil and Rail Attacks And The Ukrainians Might Already Have Understood This
30.08.2025 09:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0