Research Questions What factors will likely affect Russian reactions to NATO posture enhancements in Europe?... However, Russia's likely reactions to such posture enhancements remain understudied.... In this report, we develop a framework that analysts can use to assess likely Russian reactions to ongoing and proposed NATO posture enhancements in Europe....

Research Questions What prewar assumptions and predictions prior to past great power wars turned out to be wrong?... The U.S. Department of Defense has been increasingly focused on competition with Russia and China and, in the extreme, the possibility of great power war.... To inform thinking about what might follow such a war, RAND researchers generated four hypothetical near-term great power war scenarios and assessed how the postwar strategic environment would change in each scenario....