Read the Report — In this report, authors Eric S. Edelman and Whitney Morgan McNamara of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments outline a number of options the United States has for countering and limiting Russian political-military moves. Absent steps in this direction, the United States will find it difficult to meet the challenges that Russia has managed to present to European security. The result might well be a European security order that is less stable and less conducive to national prosperity than what we have experienced since the end of the Cold War.