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Defense Industrialist

Aug 3, 2016

A Franco-Polish-German tank

By James Hasik

The Polish Defense Minister’s interest in a trilateral development program is sound in many dimensions. For Defense News today, Aaron Mehta, Pierre Tran and Jaroslaw Adamowski report how the Polish Army is edging closer to getting new tanks. During an interview back on July 22, Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz told the reporters that his […]

Defense Industry Europe & Eurasia

New Atlanticist

Aug 2, 2016

New Report Shows Global Fiscal Transparency Lagging Behind US Standards

By Nathaniel Rome

Developing countries are failing to meet fiscal transparency standards as established by the United States, according to a report released on July 28. The US State Department’s Fiscal Transparency Report—released annually since 2012—details which countries meet the State Department’s minimum fiscal transparency requirements, which countries are making progress towards it, and which countries are making […]

Economy & Business United States and Canada

Defense Industrialist

Aug 2, 2016

How soon is too soon for new weapons?

By James Hasik

Historical perspective should inform the aims of the Pentagon’s Third Offset strategy.  RAND has just released a public version of its study War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable (hat-tip to Council member Byron Callan for bringing that to my attention). For the Army, which sponsored and took in the report last year, authors David Gompert, Astrid Cevallos, […]

Defense Industry Defense Technologies

Bremain vs Brexit

Jul 29, 2016

EU Source: US-EU Privacy Shield gets One-Year Trial Period

By Future Europe Initiative

THIS WEEK’S KEY TAKE-AWAYS EU regulators agree not to challenge Privacy Shield in court for first year EU-Turkey relations deteriorate amid purges following failed coup Post-Brexit UK trade agenda faces strong headwinds

Economy & Business European Union

Defense Industrialist

Jul 28, 2016

Dry powder on stormy seas

By James Hasik

Several large contractors’ quarterly results may indicate a state change in their treatment of investable cash. For about fifteen years now, defense contractors have been reliably generating piles of cash. What to do with all that money? Assuredly, as I wrote in 2013, something with an incentive behind it—and that hasn’t meant investment. Back then, […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Bremain vs Brexit

Jul 28, 2016

French Leadership in a Post-Brexit World Featured by Bloomberg

By Atlantic Council

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France

Future of Iraq Taskforce

Jul 28, 2016

Younis Joins NPR to Discuss the Lessons We Have Learned from the Iraq War

By Nussaibah Younis

Iraq

Bremain vs Brexit

Jul 28, 2016

Resilient Financial Markets – Shaping the Rules Together Featured by Global Trade Magazine

By Atlantic Council

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Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

Bremain vs Brexit

Jul 26, 2016

Riley in the Globalist: The Soft Brexit Option

By Alan Riley

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Cyber Risk Wednesdays

Jul 25, 2016

Cyber Risk Thursday: Online Communities and the Future of National Security

By Divya Sahni

On July 14, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative gathered a group of experts to seek answers to these questions. The panel brought together Leo Blanken, an associate professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate school, Jasmine El-Gamal, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, Charley Snyder, senior cyber policy adviser at the US Department of Defense, and Katie Moussouris, private consultant for bug bounty programs for a discussion moderated by the Atlantic Council’s Beau Woods.

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