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Bremain vs Brexit

Jan 6, 2016

In Brexit Debate, David Cameron Averts Crisis. For Now.

By Ashish Kumar Sen

British leader’s decision to allow cabinet to pick sides on relationship with EU may not work in the long term, says Fran Burwell British Prime Minister David Cameron’s decision to allow members of his cabinet to pick sides and actively campaign for the United Kingdom to stay in or leave the European Union avoids a […]

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Jan 6, 2016

Top News: United States sees Assad staying in Syria until March 2017

By MENASource

The Obama administration’s best-case scenario for political transition in Syria does not foresee President Bashar al-Assad stepping down as the country’s leader before March 2017, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.

Art of Future Warfare

Jan 5, 2016

Cole on the Art of Future War Initiative

By August Cole

The Adjacent Possible interviews Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole on the Art of Future War initiative and the War Stories from the Future project:

Defense Industrialist

Dec 31, 2015

Will the bomber always get through?

By James Hasik

The long-term survivability of the LRS-B is a known unknowable. Will the US Air Force’s new stealth bomber be sufficiently survivable? Naïve calculations sometimes presume, to quote Stanley Baldwin’s 1932 speech in the House of Commons, that “the bomber will always get through.” History has proven otherwise, and at the start of a ten-year development […]

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Defense Industrialist

Dec 30, 2015

LRS-B: Too big to lose?

By James Hasik and Rachel Rizzo

Does building big bombers concentrate too much power in a single platform? Writing in Forbes two years ago, Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute argued that about $550 million would be cheap for a new bomber. The price of the LRS-B may be about half again as much as an A380 jetliner, and the latter need […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Bremain vs Brexit

Dec 23, 2015

In 2016, All Eyes on Britain’s In-Out EU Referendum

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Vote will have serious consequences either way, says Atlantic Council’s Fran Burwell As 2015 draws to a close, our experts take a look back at the year that was and look ahead to 2016. This interview is part of a series. Fran Burwell is the Vice President of European Union and Special Initiatives at the […]

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In the News

Dec 18, 2015

Ashooh on the UN Meeting on the Conflict in Syria

By Jessica Ashooh

Middle East Strategy Task Force Deputy Director Jessica Ashooh joins Sky News to discuss the meeting of world leaders in New York at the United Nations on the conflict in Syria and whether the talks will be successful:

Syria

Defense Industrialist

Dec 18, 2015

Why we need those little crappy ships

By James Hasik

Ash Carter’s emphasis on aircraft and quality over ships-in-quantity may be the wrong call on technology and strategy. Defense Secretary Ash Carter just told the Navy to spend less money on ships and more on jets. In a memorandum this week, he directed Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to cap purchases of Independence– and Freedom-class ships […]

Maritime Security Missile Defense

Defense Industrialist

Dec 17, 2015

Artificial strategy

By James Hasik

Are even the computers smart enough for the gray zones? General Joseph Votel, head of US Special Operations Command, is worried about “gray zones.” As he told the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities back in March, he is vexed by today’s “ambiguity on the nature of the conflict, the parties involved, and the […]

Defense Policy Security & Defense

In the News

Dec 17, 2015

Ashooh on the Syrian Crisis and the Geneva Communique

By Jessica Ashooh

Middle East Strategy Task Force Deputy Director Jessica Ashooh joins Voice of America to discuss the Syria talks happening in New York on Friday and the importance of those talks reaffirming the language in the 2012 Geneva Communique:

Syria

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