Institute for the Study of War

Those reports came from aggregator sites and social media accounts citing Iranian outlets and maritime trackers, and CENTCOM issued no statement.

A similar claim of an American strike near Sirik on October 22 also remained unconfirmed, according to analysts at the Institute for the Study of War and the Critical Threats Project.

Both should be treated as unverified.

In Tehran, the rhetoric hardened as the American planning came into view.

Okay, so that's where they are.

And yet, while this has gone down, look at how casualties have just skyrocketed over time, right? Okay, Ukrainian forces are making slow but tactically significant gains in the Oleksandrivka direction that may later threaten Russian logistics and efforts in the Oleksandrivka and Hulipolite directions over the long term, according to the Institute of War.

And this was interesting, too.

Russia changes its airstrike tactics near Zaporizhzhia.

I feel like a couple times a week we are citing Russian mill bloggers getting frustrated about this.

ISW went out and put together some graphics here as well, so it's not just a, hey, the Russians on the front are saying the situation is not good, but what does the data actually show? ISW had a chart, a couple different charts that we'll share here.

The first showing how they're just not making any progress at all.

You'll see that bar along the bottom is Russian territorial gain since the beginning of the war.

It is a shockingly slow rate of advance, unheard of.

really, in modern war, to move this slow amidst this number of casualties.

This same ISW chart, you see the number just skyrocketing there.

They're estimating around 1,500,000 Russian casualties.

AEI, the China and Taiwan update from October 23rd.

They say it's a joint product for the Institute of Study of War, the People's Republic of China Election Interference in Taiwan.

Taiwanese national security and policy officials are reporting increased People's Republic of China influence operations using AI generated content and cyber attacks to increase polarization, reduce public trust in the Taiwanese government and reduce voter turnout.

These influence operations will likely continue to increase in the lead up to Taiwan's November 28th local elections.

Melania Trump's office said the ceasefire would begin on Thursday, but Russia said it would take effect at 4 a.m. on Tuesday, Moscow time.

A U.S. think tank, the Institute for the Study of War, said the Russian authorities had stopped delivery of food and other critical supplies into Oleshki in December last year.

The Institute added that as of March, residents had reported cases of deaths from starvation, freezing and lack of medical care.

Leaders in Washington have been urging European countries to take more responsibility for their own security.

Now, this has been going on for a while, but RT is carrying it again and again and again because they're trying to make a narrative point about this.

OK, the Institute for the Study of War, the Kremlin is conducting an escalating series of kinetic campaigns against Europe.

The ISW director of the Defense Europe Project explains.

And he says why naming it hybrid attacks and provocations might undermine the effective response.

Ukrainian officials are widely reporting continued in-motion speed restrictions on SpaceX low-Earth orbit satellite communications technology on October 23rd, but the situation remains unclear.

This was the ISW's assessment at 10.07 p.m. on October 23rd.

That's last night.

Now, I've seen things in my feed, and so we'll see in later, that it seems to indicate that this has been fixed.

Next to cross-strait developments, a report from two Washington think tanks concludes Beijing is escalating coercion against DPP Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen in an effort to influence next month's local elections.

the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War, write that China has broadened pressure from individual politicians.

It labels stubborn Taiwan independence elements to their business-owning relatives.

The report highlights China's Taiwan Affairs Office adding Shen to its sanctions list in October 2024. and on October 14, sanctioning V-Way, a company registered to his father Shen Tu Cheng, while PLA-linked social media accounts attacked television host Kevin Tsai for appearing at a Shen rally.