Russia Matters

Joe Biden will take office not as an idealistic newcomer to foreign affairs, but rather as a veteran with a well-developed sense of priorities and perspectives—including a healthy dose of disillusionment with the Obama era attempt to reset relations with Russia.

U.S. and Russian militaries offer differing narratives of the naval encounter near the Russian city of Vladivostok; a new report says 36 percent of cyber attacks on Russia this year were by U.S. hackers; and more in our weekly news round-up.

Robert Gates’ new book constitutes the most coherent of recent attempts to catalogue the key instruments of modern America’s national power and then discern how their use has evolved following the end of the Cold War and to what effect.