My book on @NATO with Paal Sigurd Hilde, published by @UofMPress is now available: http://t.co/BYVo3kgEfe http://t.co/VOjDujlwAx

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An important @BBN_PL initiative, especially in light of the release of America’s latest #NationalSecurityStrategy #NSS. These strategic discussions must include a focus on U.S. military presence in Poland, and why it’s actually #AmericaFirst and #PolandFirst that we ensure the

The heart of @NATO is now the Northeast Corridor (Scandinavia, Finland, the Baltic States and, most of all, Poland). My question for the politicians who run those countries is simple: Do you recognize this new reality, and if so-what are you ready to do to change history. 10/End

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Why do I say that? Because leadership is ultimately about risk-taking. Not for the sake of it, but to achieve a dream that the establishment considers unrealizable. For the past three decades Europe has rolled in butter, and such fat times produce managers, not real leaders. 9/10

Now back to my book project: After these two back-to-back trips to Asia and Europe I decided to rewrite one of my chapters/scenarios to argue that in Europe legacy institutions will be increasingly irrelevant, regardless of how many self-entitled bureaucrats argue otherwise. 8/10

I just flew back from Warsaw, and changing planes in Miami I fired off an email to a dear friend of mine in Warsaw. I asked why Poland continues to doubt itself, while by all power indices it is in the lead when it comes to European great powers. It's about real leadership. 7/10

Geography is unforgiving, but man can change the absolute and relative power equation. After all, today those 13 once-subsistence colonies are today a great power shaping the world. It never ceases to amaze me how the national spirit can change the course of things to come. 6/10

There is also this critical temporal dimension to war-at the right moment, small states can defeat powers orders of magnitude greater. But they will lose if they fail to do so. So here we are-the "entitled" West European powers are about to learn a lesson of their lifetime. 5/10

Flying back to the US I jotted down on the plane one simple sentence: "Warfare is not just about numbers and systems; it's first and foremost about societal resilience." It's nations, not armies, that go to war, and if national cohesion begins to fray, technology won't do. 4/10

Regardless of whether you like or dislike the second Trump administration, POTUS has pulled down the veil that masked the real power distribution across the Atlantic. What you see is what you get-Europeans can't pretend they have agency when they have no military power. 3/10

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It's a scenarios-based project that factors in US irreducible national interests, the priorities of key US allies in @NATO, and the verities of geography and power. I've briefed parts of it in various venues, but each time I return from Europe I have new urgent questions. 2/10

🧵I am wrapping up my next book "Europe Reconfigured: U.S.-Europe Strategy for an Age of Great Power Conflict." The manuscript will be ready to send to the press and then for reviews by mid-February. Two years of my work, with twists and turns in the world few anticipated. 1/10

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Deterrence will hold if #Poland leads in shaping the Northeast Corridor (Scandinavia, Finland, the Baltics) helping build real exercised military capabilities in close cooperation with the US and other @NATO allies, integrating the region and leveraging its overall strength. 5/5

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This is no longer the “crush zone of Europe” it once was. Poland’s remarkable progress set against Russia’s persistent decline has reshuffled the deck. What’s needed is for Warsaw to leverage the changed security environment, redefining how NATO works internally going forward.4/5

Central Europe’s security is devolving fast, with Russian imperialism and revisionism rearing its head yet again, causing some say that “history is about to repeat itself.” But those people are wrong, for while geography has remained constant, the region’s dynamic has not. 3/5

#Poland’s remarkable transformation is a tribute to its people, with a new generation-untainted by communism-coming into its own and now ready (I hope) to take the helm. In my conversations I sensed patriotism, aspirations and tenacity young Poles display in spades. But…2/5

🧵About to get on the plane to fly back home. A few thoughts after visiting @KUL_Lublin and my series of meetings in Warsaw. First, #Poland has undergone a remarkable transformation over the post-Cold War decades. What was once a smoldering ruin, is now w thriving economy. 1/5

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With a lecture on the new US National Security Strategy vs. the reality of transatlantic relations and Poland's role and position relative to the newly-adopted document, delivered by the renowned American political scientist of Polish descent, Prof. @andrewmichta, the National