Atlantic Council blogs

China: Cyber Threat and Cyber Threatened

By Derek S. Reveron and Jon Lindsay

In any discussion about the security of cyberspace, Chinese hackers are usually singled out as major threats. The most recent (and hardly unique) news involves an operation with Chinese origins, dubbed Byzantine Candor by government investigators, which has been stealing corporate and government secrets for years, to include emails from the president of the European […]

Top News: Gaza PM Calls for Permanent Palestinian-Egyptian Security Committee

By Egypt Source

Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Monday called for the establishment of a permanent security coordination committee with the government of Egypt after yesterday’s attack on the Egypt-Israel border in Sinai. 

German police arrest suspected NATO spy

By AFP

From AFP:  German police have arrested a civilian employee of NATO on suspicion of espionage at the US air base at Ramstein in the west of the country, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

NATO names Dutch diplomat as Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan

By NATO

Sinai: The Boiling Point for Security and Governance

By Nancy Messieh and Tarek Radwan

Islamist militants killed 16 policemen and injured seven in an attack on Egyptian border guards in Sinai on Sunday, in what is the latest in a string of violent incidents in the country since Mohamed Morsi’s election as president. The Egyptian military vowed a crackdown on the “infidels” responsible, while Morsi delivered a televised speech […]

Poland wants its own missile defense system, calls cooperation with US a ‘mistake’

By the Telegraph

Three Senators call for U.S. to intervene in Syria with airpower

By John McCain, Joseph I. Lieberman and Lindsey O. Graham, the Washington Post

From John McCain, Joseph I. Lieberman and Lindsey O. Graham, the Washington Post:  The U.S. reluctance to intervene in Syria is, first of all, allowing this conflict to be longer and bloodier, a radicalizing dynamic.

Top News: Egypt Vows Crackdown on “Infidels” after Border Massacre

By Egypt Source

Egypt branded Islamist gunmen who killed 16 police near the Israeli border as "infidels" and promised on Monday to launch a crackdown following the massacre that strained Cairo’s ties with both Israel and Palestinians. An Egyptian official has said "Jihadist elements" crossed from the Gaza Strip into Egypt before leading the assault on a border […]

Mongolia strengthening cooperation with NATO

By J. Berkshire Miller, Defense News

From J. Berkshire Miller, Defense News:  Ulan Bator has long been part of Washington’s strategic calculus in Central Asia and its importance has been magnified by the war in Afghanistan.

European defense cooperation dependent on success of Franco-British security relationship

By Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist

From Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist:  [T]he London-Paris axis is Europe’s only true strategic defense relationship and thus critical to the future defense of Europe.