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Feb 5, 2016

Devex Impact Highlights Middle East Strategy Task Force Report

By Atlantic Council

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Defense Industrialist

Feb 4, 2016

Options unconsidered

By James Hasik

Which is the question—should carrier drones be tankers, or should tankers just be seaplanes? Turning the US Navy’s next carrier-based drone into a tanker, as the service announced this week, is probably a reasonable idea. For some time, buddy-tanking F-18 Hornets has been a questionable use of other Hornets, but one  completely necessitated since 2009 […]

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Event Recap

Feb 3, 2016

Youth, Tech, and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking the Middle East’s Economic Potential

By Middle East Strategy Task Force

On Wednesday, February 3, the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Strategy Task Force (MEST) hosted a panel of distinguished experts for a discussion on “Youth, Tech, and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking the Middle East’s Economic Potential.” Seeking to discuss the economic revitalization of the Middle East, MEST Co-Chairs Madeleine K. Albright and Stephen J. Hadley were joined by […]

Report

Feb 3, 2016

Economic recovery and revitalization

By Middle East Strategy Task Force

Even as the specter of political instability weighs heavily on the region, the Middle East is quietly experiencing a technological and societal transformation that could hold the keys to a better future.

Economy & Business Education

Defense Industrialist

Feb 2, 2016

Think Small

By Steven Grundman

Economies Of Scale Ain’t What They Used To Be. Last month, while the world’s elites were gathering in Davos, Switzerland for Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF), I was in Washington hosting an address by the acquisition executive of the U.S. Special Operations Command, James “Hondo” Geurts. While the setting for these two occasions could […]

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Emerging Defense Challenges

Feb 1, 2016

An Artist’s Perspective on Moral Complexity

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On February 1, the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted an Art of Future Warfare project Google Hangout with Matt Gallagher, author of Youngblood. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down while ISIS rises up, the United States is left in a morally and strategically ambiguous position: should America keep […]

Art of Future Warfare

Feb 1, 2016

Navy Times Highlights Cole’s Book on the Next Global Conflict and His Upcoming Participation in the Science Fiction Futures Workshop

By August Cole

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In the News

Jan 27, 2016

Eljarh Interviewed by The Cipher Brief on Instability in Libya

By Mohamed Eljarh

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Libya

Defense Industrialist

Jan 26, 2016

On trucks and lawsuits

By James Hasik

Complaints over fairness indicate how hard military procurement can be, and how strategic urgency must sometimes trump procedural justice. In North America in the past several months, three defense contractors have complained to US and Canadian federal reviewers that they’ve been treated unfairly in procurement programs for new military vehicles. Lockheed Martin has complained about […]

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Defense Industrialist

Jan 23, 2016

Newer aircraft, bigger bills

By James Hasik

In the USAF, mission-capable rates are not a matter of age or scale efficiencies.  In Air Force Times this week, Jeff Schogol pulled some descriptive statistics from USAF records to report on “which aircraft are most mission-ready.” His list included the various types of attack, bomber, cargo (including gunship and electronic warfare), fighter, rescue helicopter, tilt-rotor, […]

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