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NATOat70

Apr 2, 2019

How NATO can succeed in the next seventy years

By David A. Wemer

“NATO is undergoing a transformation that needs to continue from being a reactive defensive alliance into a more proactive engaged alliance, to actually prevent future conflict," Gen. James L. Jones, Jr. says.

Defense Technologies NATO

NATOat70

Apr 2, 2019

Quiz: Happy birthday, NATO!

By Atlantic Council

Think you know all about the Alliance? Take our quiz to prove that you are a true NATO nerd.

NATO Security & Defense

NATOat70

Apr 2, 2019

NATO allies prepare to put up a united front

By Ashish Kumar Sen

The celebration in Washington will be different than the chaos in Brussels last July.

NATO Security & Defense

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Apr 2, 2019

#StrongerWithAllies: Meet the gritty artillery officer who will become one of Canada’s two female battery commanders

By Ashley Materi

Maj. Melissa Marshall is constantly pushing herself to be "stronger," "faster," and "better."

NATO Security & Defense

NATOat70

Apr 1, 2019

NATO Engages: The Alliance at 70

By Ashish Kumar Sen

The Atlantic Council will co-host a daylong conference celebrating seventy years of the NATO alliance.

NATO Security & Defense

EnergySource

Mar 29, 2019

Black Sea natural gas games: A fork in the road for the BRUA Pipeline project

By Nolan Theisen and John Szabo

Hopes were riding high on the discovery of Romania’s Black Sea natural gas deposits in 2012, which were expected to provide a cheap and local source of the fuel for Central and South Eastern Europe (CSEE). ExxonMobil and OMV Petrom would carry out the offshore production, and the Bulgaria-Romania-Hungary-Austria (BRUA) pipeline project, formally conceived in […]

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2018 Elections in Latin America

Mar 28, 2019

Digital resilience in Latin America: Automation, disinformation, and polarization in elections

By Valentina Sader

2018 saw political tides turn in three of Latin America’s largest democracies. These elections also saw deep polarization and distrust in institutions among Brazilians, Mexicans, and Colombians in an information environment ripe with disinformation. Following a year-long effort in which the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center and its Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) […]

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Cyber Risk Wednesdays

Mar 27, 2019

Cyber Risk Wednesday: Supply Chain Security in the 21st Century

By Jared Zimmerman

On March 27, 2019, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, housed within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, hosted a public panel to discuss supply chain cybersecurity. The timely discussion, underwritten by Raytheon, followed on the heels of the March 25 disclosure that computer hardware company ASUS had unwittingly been delivering malicious software to ASUS computer owners via its automatic software update utility.

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Jednostka Wojskowa Komandosów soldiers training in the Stołowe Mountains, May 18, 2018 (photo: Polish Ministry of Defense).

Art of Future Warfare

Mar 25, 2019

Omega

By Amir Husain and August Cole

Editor’s note: This short story describes a hypothetical future war in Europe between Russian and NATO forces using advanced technology. 22 KILOMETERS NORTH OF KYIV / UKRAINE “Incoming!” shouted Piotr Nowak, a master sergeant in Poland’s Jednostka Wojskowa Komandosów special operations unit. Dropping to the ground, he clawed aside a veil of brittle green moss […]

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Inflection Points

Mar 24, 2019

Special edition: Reverse Brexit, save Britain!

By Frederick Kempe

There are compelling reasons for parliament to intervene and push for a Brexit re-examination.

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