The Vandenberg Coalition and The McCain Institute at Arizona State University (ASU) convened conservative thought leaders to outline their view of what an effective United States strategy for countering Russia should look like.

The report outlines why U.S. leadership and robust involvement — not isolationism and withdrawal — are essential to countering Russia and key adversaries like China, rebuilding our geopolitical security in a time of great power competition, and protecting American interests.

The report, titled, “A Conservative Strategy for Countering Russia,” contains a series of essays written by leading voices from the conservative foreign policy community, including Stephen E. Biegun, Peter Berkowitz, Brian Cavanaugh, Dean Cheng, Rebeccah Heinrichs, Mark Montgomery, Daniel Runde, and Matthew Zweig.

“Russia remains one of the U.S. and its democratic allies’ most destructive adversaries. No clearer example of the Russia threat exists than its full-scale, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which has since claimed hundreds of thousands of lives,” the report states. “Russia is simultaneously waging non-kinetic warfare against the world’s democracies, including the U.S., through information manipulation, cyber-attacks, election interference, and malign finance. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Islamic Republic of Iran have aided Russia’s efforts, supplying weaponry, training, and technology, as well as sharing tactics and working in tandem to undermine our public’s faith in democratic institutions and the global world order.”