In a talk at Texas A&M’s Bush School, historian Phillips O’Brien said the Russian invasion, now in its third year, raises a number of difficult questions about military power in the 21st century.
“It’s hard to imagine either side wanting to sit down and negotiate,” says renowned scholar Angela Stent, noting that neither country has gained much ground in recent months.
Against the backdrop of the recently collapsed Soviet Union, Texas A&M School of Law Dean Robert Ahdieh crossed paths with numerous familiar political figures during his undergraduate studies and research in Moscow.
Russia’s nuclear arsenal gives it significant leverage — but even using a small atomic bomb would be tremendously costly for Putin and his government, says Texas A&M political science professor Matthew Fuhrmann.
A Texas A&M technology historian explains why the 1969 moon landing could have been delayed – or not happened at all – without the Soviet Union’s space ambitions.