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Cyber 9/12 Project

Mar 28, 2017

Naval War College Wins Atlantic Council’s Fifth Annual Cyber 9/12 Student Competition

By Atlantic Council

Team C3S from Naval War College won first place at the fifth annual Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge, a cybersecurity student competition by the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative. The competition was held on March 17-18 at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, DC, and featured forty-five competing teams from eighteen states across the United States.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Mar 27, 2017

Wanted: A Plan to Rebuild Syria

With no end in sight to a war that started six years ago, has claimed more than 465,000 lives, and displaced millions, it is fair to ask when is the right time to launch a much-needed effort to rebuild Syria. Should this effort start now, while the country is still ravaged by war, or once […]

Defense Industrialist

Mar 27, 2017

Will DARPA get its Cylons back?

By James Hasik

The Pentagon’s concerns over Chinese investment in the US should be considered carefully. In this morning’s Wall Street Journal, Daniel Michaels and his team write of how what’s “Driving U.S. Factories [is] Foreign Robotics.” All the best machine tools, it would seem, are made by the Germans and the Japanese. If that sounds like the 1980s, he asserts […]

China Defense Industry

Rebuilding Syria

Rebuilding Syria: Opening Statement by Omar Shawaf

By Omar Shawaf

Below are remarks by Omar Shawaf and audio of the event on Rebuilding Syria: Reconstruction and Legitimacy hosted by the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council in Washington on March 21, 2017:

Syria

In the News

Albright, Hadley Testimony Before House Armed Services Committee Described by Devex

By Madeleine Albright and Stephen Hadley

Read the full article here.

Rebuilding Syria

The Economic Case for Syria’s Stabilization

By Rashad al-Kattan

It is fairly easy to consider Syria as a hopeless case, as the country seems trapped in a vicious cycle of nihilistic violence and colossal destruction. The economy is now completely shattered and fragmented, with each party building its own independent entities. The systematic – but imbalanced – collapse of economic foundations is seen across […]

Syria

Defense Industrialist