Wess Mitchell Archives

September 14, 2023

Ukraine, Taiwan, and the Dawn of Great Power Competition

Heritage Foundation | On this episode, Peter is joined by Wess Mitchell, co-founder and principal of the Marathon Initiative who previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for Europe from 2017-2019....
July 6, 2023

NATO’s Next Decade: Nine thinkers assess the alliance’s future ahead of a historic summit.

Foreign Policy | "NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept took an important first step by recognizing China as a security challenge, but now the alliance needs to translate that into concrete actions.......
July 5, 2023

Western Europe Is Still Falling Short in NATO’s East

Foreign Affairs | Although the war has done a lot to get western Europe serious about defense, NATO remains bound by many of the same old self-created constraints......
June 25, 2023

Wess Mitchell Quoted in Bloomberg

Bloomberg | “There’s no question that Putin has been weakened,” Wess Mitchell, a former US assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia and cofounder of two think tanks, said in an interview........
June 23, 2023

Getting Strategic Deprioritization Right

The Marathon Initiative | Project prepared for the Office of Net Assessment, United States Department of Defense. Published with approval from the Office of Net Assessment.…......
June 14, 2023

A Drawn-Out Ukraine War Should Not Change U.S. Strategy

Foreign Policy | "Sequencing remains the best strategy for the United States to handle the two-front challenge from China and Russia. Helping Ukraine to defeat Russia by ejecting it from its territory is the best way to pursue such a strategy.".....
June 2, 2023

Why Biden’s China Reset Is a Bad Idea

Foreign Policy | "Now is not the time for the United States to pursue détente with China, as the Biden administration has been trying to do for several weeks now."....
April 29, 2022

‘The Twilight Struggle’ Review: Welcome to the New Cold War

Wall Street Journal | Today America once again finds itself at the onset of a new era of geopolitical rivalry, this time with a rising China and a vengeful Russia.......
April 28, 2022

Wess Mitchell Interviewed on WBUR

WBUR | "It's startling the change in public outlook in these countries," Wess Mitchell, former assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, says. "And the calculation is that if they don't come into NATO, they're worried that they could be a tempting target."..........
March 17, 2022

The Case for Ukrainian Neutrality

Foreign Affairs | While neutrality would carry risks, it need not be a death sentence for Ukraine. It may, in fact, be the best possible outcome, given where things stand after more than three weeks of war..........