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Art of Future Warfare

Jun 26, 2015

Soldier Systems Highlights ‘Envisioning The Future of Urban Warfare’

By Atlantic Council

Soldier Systems highlights the Atlantic Council event Envisioning The Future of Urban Warfare on how artists can help contribute to the national security discussion:

Art of Future Warfare

Jun 26, 2015

Experts project the US role in the future of urban warfare

By Brent Scowcroft Center

In the not-too-distant future, most of humanity will live in megacities. Megacities will serve as economic, cultural, and political hubs of international affairs—but they also will form the complex landscape of rivalry and violent conflict. Recent instances of urban combat–Saigon, Sarajevo, Fallujah—only begin to inform the epic challenge of fighting in our mid-century megacities. To […]

Conflict
United States and Canada

Europe After The Vote

Jun 26, 2015

Montanino: Greece Needs a Ten Year Plan

By Andrea Montanino

German-language Zeit interviews Global Business and Economics Program Director Andrea Montanino on why Greece can’t survive with the model of a developing economy:

Greece

Article

Jun 26, 2015

Greece: Deal or No Deal? Looking at Both Sides of the Greece-Euro Coin

By Andrea Montanino and Demetrios Papageorgiou

Faced with a $1.8 billion debt payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday, Greece was unable to reach an agreement with its Eurozone partners and the IMF yesterday in the latest round of talks in Brussels as both sides failed to make progress on key issues such as pension reform and taxation. A […]

Art of Future Warfare

Jun 26, 2015

Cole: The Art of World War III

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole writes for Vice News on an Art of Future Warfare event, which brought together a group of leading artists, as well as entries from a crowd-sourced online contest, to reveal the art of World War III:

Captains of Industry Series

Jun 25, 2015

Global Suppliers Face Challenges in US Market, Say CEOs

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On June 24, 2015 the Atlantic Council hosted a panel discussion with Michael Andersson, President and CEO of Saab North America, Judy Marks, President and CEO of Siemens Government Technologies, Allen Pellegrini, President and CEO of Thales USA, and Peter Lengyel, President and CEO of Safran USA. This extraordinary panel was a part of the […]

In the News

Jun 25, 2015

Global Capital Features Atlantic Council Report on RMB Infrastructure

By Atlantic Council

Global Capital features the Atlantic Council report RENMINBI ASCENDING: How China’s Currency Impacts Global Markets, Foreign Policy, and Transatlantic Financial Regulation in an article on why the RMB needs infrastructure and co-operation to become a global currency: 

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Defense Industrialist

Jun 24, 2015

Selling Sikorsky

By James Hasik

Should structure or conduct drive the Pentagon’s supply strategy? The bids for Sikorsky are in. For United Technologies CEO Greg Hayes, they’re “at least as good as what we had hoped to see.” By the rumors, they’re from Blackstone, Lockheed Martin, Textron, and Airbus. With such a heterogenous set of bidders, a range of strategic and financial considerations are driving the offers. The tax implications are […]

Defense Industry
Security & Defense

Captains of Industry Series

Jun 24, 2015

Coming to America: Global Suppliers for Defense and Security

Please join the Atlantic Council on June 24 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. for a special event in its Captains of Industry Series on Wednesday, when a panel of four chief executives will convene to discuss how foreign-owned companies address the opportunities and challenges of their participation in the business of defense and security in […]

Defense Industry
Security & Defense

Art of Future Warfare

Jun 23, 2015

Envisioning the future of urban warfare

By Atlantic Council

Please join the Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare project on June 23 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 pm for a discussion on Envisioning the Future of Urban Warfare. This will also be the capstone to a war-art challenge calling for graphic novel, or comic book, illustrations revealing what urban warfare might look like in […]

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