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Aviso LatAm: COVID-19

Feb 5, 2021

Aviso LatAm: COVID-19 February 5, 2021

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) expects the deployment of COVID-19 vaccines to Latin American and Caribbean through the COVAX facility to begin in mid-February and last until the end of June. Over 35 million doses will be delivered to 36 countries.

100 Ideas for the first 100 days

Feb 4, 2021

#16: Launch a Manhattan Project for Energy Storage

By: Robert Manning What is the kernel of the issue? The biggest single obstacle to scaling up intermittent renewable energy sources—wind and solar—as primary clean sources of electricity is cost and efficiency of energy storage. Why is the issue important? Breakthroughs in efficiency and cost of energy storage is critical to accelerating the transition to […]

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Feb 4, 2021

Protecting the new frontier: Seven perspectives on aerospace cybersecurity

By Simon Handler

The aviation community is experiencing unprecedented difficulties, while space is emerging as a new fronter with challenges of its own. But there are opportunities for experts across the aerospace sector to tackle its cybersecurity challenges.

Cybersecurity Space

In the News

Feb 4, 2021

Nia quoted in Newsweek on U.S. sanctions against Myanmar

East Asia Indo-Pacific

Seizing the advantage

Feb 4, 2021

Elevating ‘deterrence by denial’ in US defense strategy

By Erica D. Borghard, Benjamin Jensen, and Mark Montgomery

As the Biden administration reshapes foreign policy and makes decisions about how to invest in US military capabilities for the future, it should acknowledge the value of a denial-based approach to deterrence.

Defense Industry Defense Policy

Seizing the advantage

Feb 3, 2021

How the US can regain the advantage in its next National Defense Strategy

By Clementine G. Starling-Daniels, Matthew R. Crouch

To seize the advantage, the next US National Defense Strategy needs a paradigm adjustment, not a shift. In the next NDS, the Biden defense team must take a broader definition of competition if the United States is to succeed in deterring, defending, and shaping the strategic environment in its favor.

Conflict Defense Industry

NATO 20/2020

Feb 3, 2021

Open a bank: NATO 20/2020 podcast

By Transatlantic Security Initative

NATO can fund critical defense investments by bringing the necessary financial tools in house.

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia
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#AlertaVenezuela

Feb 3, 2021

#AlertaVenezuela: February 3, 2021

By Atlantic Council's DFRLab

A DFRLab investigation into Telegram groups found clues about how the Maduro regime rewards users for promoting hashtags on Twitter.

Disinformation Venezuela

100 Ideas for the first 100 days

Feb 3, 2021

#15: Bring back the US Information Agency to Counter Disinformation

By: Evan Cooper What is the kernel of the issue? The US faces a global landscape saturated with disinformation, much of which is aimed at undermining US leadership and weakening the US political system. Why is the issue important? There are a multitude of geopolitically important complex media environments into which information from credible US […]

Photo: "Indian and US naval ships in formation during Malabar 2012", by Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, licensed under CC BY 2.0

Assumptions Testing Series

Feb 3, 2021

Assumption #1: Revisionist states are the cause of great-power competition

By Emma Ashford

Policymakers should intensify efforts to understand the scope of ambition of other states, focus less on forward deployment and engage in reassurance measures.