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Defense Industrialist

Nov 30, 2015

“We used to suck, and now we don’t suck as much.”

By James Hasik

Testing Bill LaPlante’s hypothesis of improving military acquisition The Lexington Institute’s Dan Gouré says that the much-ballyhooed Third Offset “will fail unless it first defeats the DoD’s acquisition system.” The department has again missed its goals for competing enough contracts. I myself have lamented how broken the acquisition system is. But as a retired Air […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Nov 24, 2015

Image and Indoctrination

By Blake Franko

Russia is laying the groundwork for further professionalizing its military. Russia’s military intervention in Syria illustrates that in the minds of Kremlin planners, the primary criterion for great power status is military might. Further cruise missile strikes and bomber sorties continue to showcase the depth of Russian military modernization. However, if Russia wants to remain […]

Russia

Event Recap

Nov 23, 2015

Chris Brummer Speaks on RMB Internationalization at Financial and Risk Summit in Toronto

By Global Business and Economics

On November 23, 2015, Chris Brummer, the C. Boyden Gray Fellow on Global Growth and Finance at the Atlantic Council, spoke alongside Mingxuan Zhu, President and CEO, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Susan Gammage, Thomson Reuters’ Head of FX Transactions Sales, Americas, Janet L. Ecker, President and CEO, Toronto Financial Services Alliance, and Jeffrey […]

China

Defense Industrialist

Nov 23, 2015

Planes or train?

By James Hasik

Just “how can Canada best” contribute to the fight in Iraq and Syria? The Americans are bombing. The French are now bombing by the score. The British are slinging Brimstone. The Canadians will train the Peshmerga. That’s right—making good on a campaign promise, new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau still intends to withdraw the six F-18 […]

Iraq Syria

In the News

Nov 20, 2015

Ashooh on Paris Attacks

By Jessica Ashooh

Middle East Strategy Task Force Deputy Director Jessica Ashooh joins Voice of America to discuss the implications of the terrorist attcks in Paris:

France

Defense Industrialist

Nov 19, 2015

The Mistral will follow you

By James Hasik

Egypt’s procurement of helicopter carriers is truly strategic. As I wrote the other day, the Al-Baghdadi Gang has truly found tragic ways to combine brutality with stupidity. Attacking Russia and France in the same month, as Robert Pape of the University of Chicago wrote in the Boston Globe, is clearly an indication of desperation. Dealing with […]

Defense Policy France

Captains of Industry Series

Nov 18, 2015

The Space Race in Business

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On November 18, 2015, the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, as part of its Captains of Industries Series, hosted a discussion entitled “The Space Race in Business,” moderated by the Council’s M.A. and George Lund Fellow on Emerging Defence Challenges Steven Grundman. The event explored current issues and trends in the space […]

In the News

Nov 18, 2015

Ashooh on Cooperation to Fight ISIS

By Jessica Ashooh

Middle East Strategy Task Force Deputy Director Jessica Ashooh joins CCTV America to discuss what it will take to actually form a coordinated coalition to defeat ISIS:

Bremain vs Brexit

Nov 18, 2015

Considering Brexit

By Nico Catano

On November 10th, Downing Street released David Cameron's long awaited letter to European Council President Donald Tusk on Great Britain's envisioned reforms to the European Union (EU). With a portion of the ruling Conservative party desiring an EU exit, as well as the rising prominence of the UK Independence Party, unity should not be taken for granted.

Economy & Business European Union

Cyber 9/12 Project

Nov 17, 2015

CNBC Features Cyber 9/12 Challenge

By Atlantic Council

CNBC features the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative Cyber 9/12 Challenge in discussing why more companies are starting to hire hackers: