Category: Content Series

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Experts

Fellow

Kendra Ryan

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment Renewables & Advanced Energy

Fellow

Warren Sakey

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment Renewables & Advanced Energy

Staff

Nushin Sarkarati

Deputy Director, Strategic Litigation Project

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Corruption Human Rights

Fellow

Joumana Seif

Former Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Arabic English

Fellow

Jordan Shontz

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment Renewables & Advanced Energy

Staff

William F. Wechsler

Senior Director, Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

National Security Middle East
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Content

In the News

Sep 4, 2015

Ashooh: What the Rise of ISIS Tells Us About Donald Trump

By Jessica Ashooh

Deputy Director of the Middle East Strategy Task Force Jessica Ashooh writes for Foreign Policy on how both ISIS and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump give voice to troubling narratives of marginalization and disenchantment with the status quo:

Defense Industrialist

Sep 2, 2015

From Germany, With Love

By Magnus Nordenman

European arms sellers are helping shape Asian security. Washington worries increasingly about developments in the Asia-Pacific region. The Pentagon has done more than publish a maritime strategy for that part of the world—it has begun to shift military assets that way. Yet it is often said that this is a region in which Washington will […]

Defense Industry Indo-Pacific

Defense Industrialist

Sep 1, 2015

Not such a silly fly-off

By James Hasik

An A-10C versus F-35A experiment could be edifying, if designed well. Politico Pro and Bloomberg have been reporting of late that the Pentagon’s Office of Test & Evaluation (OT&E) is planning a series of head-to-head close air support tests between the A-10C and the F-35A. USAF Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh had previously called […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Aug 28, 2015

JLTV—Going slow to go fast

By James Hasik

A conversation with John Bryant of Oshkosh Defense  Yesterday morning I had the opportunity to sit down with John Bryant, a senior vice president at Oshkosh Defense, to talk about his company’s big win this week. Before retiring from the Marines, the colonel was an acquisition program manager; afterwards, he taught program management at the […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Art of Future Warfare

Aug 27, 2015

Cole: Flight Plan

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole cowrites for Slate on the importance of Silicon Valley to the future of military planning:

Defense Industrialist

Aug 26, 2015

JLTV

By James Hasik

If it can hold on, Oshkosh’s win may restructure the military truck industry. The US Army and the US Marine Corps have chosen their supplier for Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTVs), their replacement for Humvees, and supplement to MRAP All Terrain Vehicles (M-ATVs). For now, and presumably the next decade, that supplier is Wisconsin’s Oshkosh […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Aug 25, 2015

Top News: Red Cross Temporarily Suspends Activity In Aden After Attack on Headquarters

By MENASource

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Tuesday it had temporarily suspended its activities in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden after its office was raided by unidentified gunmen a day earlier. The attackers held staff at gunpoint and stole cars, cash and equipment, ICRC spokeswoman Dibeh Fakhr said in an emailed […]

In the News

Aug 25, 2015

Ashooh: Understanding Syrian Mindset Is Key to Redirecting Anti-ISIS Effort

By Jessica Ashooh

Middle East Strategy Task Force Deputy Director Jessica Ashooh writes for The Hill on the dangers of ignoring Assad in the fight against ISIS in Syria:

Syria

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Aug 24, 2015

Top News: Egypt Arrests Three Under New Terrorism Law

By EgyptSource

Egyptian police have arrested, under a new anti-terrorism law, three individuals who are accused of spreading Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) propaganda through Facebook.

Europe After The Vote

Aug 21, 2015

In Greece, It’s Splitsville for Syriza

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Greek voters will line up behind Alexis Tsipras in next election, says Atlantic Council’s Fran Burwell Greek voters will rally behind Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who lost part of his Syriza party August 21 after he was forced by creditors to abandon his anti-austerity stance, says the Atlantic Council’s Fran Burwell. “My guess is that […]

European Union Greece
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