The Russo-Ukrainian war has been marked by mutual short-range missile and drone attacks, but Ukraine has struggled to gain a significant advantage in aerial warfare. In November of 2024, former President Biden approved the discretionary use of long-range missiles by Ukraine in the ongoing war against Russia. Since then, how have long-range missiles altered the nature of the war?

The European Defense Community (EDC) marked the first attempt to create a common European defense framework. Today, it is more important than ever to understand the failure of the EDC and the consequences it entailed. At the heart of this failure was the ambition of the nation states to make sovereignty prevail over the federal character of the European project.