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Courtney Spivey Urschel

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Human Rights Middle East

Fellow

Priya Pillai

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Africa Conflict

Fellow

Joshua Hotvet

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment United States and Canada

Fellow

Rolando Mattar

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment United States and Canada

Fellow

Tom Wotka

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment United States and Canada

Fellow

Kalle Meehan

Women Leader in Energy and Climate Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment
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Defense Industrialist

Nov 4, 2014

A Phalanx of Pashto-Speaking Armed Intellectuals

By James Hasik

 What makes us think our militaries have the human and organizational capital for counterinsurgency?   “Counterinsurgency,” John Nagl commented the other day, “can’t be dead as long as insurgency is alive and well — and it is, and is likely to be for some time.” Indeed we may find ourselves, as former Chief of the Australian Army Peter […]

Afghanistan
Iraq

Defense Industrialist

Nov 3, 2014

Software is Eating the War

By James Hasik

Economically Unsustainable Spending Requires a Thorough Rethinking of Defense-Industrial Strategy   Software, Josh Marcuse told us, is eating the war. An advisor on innovation to the under secretary of defense for policy, Marcuse was speaking at the 2014 Defense Entrepreneurs Forum (DEF), held from 24 to 26 October at the University of Chicago. Echoing Marc Andreessen’s 2011 essay in the Wall […]

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Nov 3, 2014

Top News: Prosecutor Orders Detention of Thirty-five for Islamic State Affiliations

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s prosecutor-general has ordered the detention of thirty-five suspects accused of joining terrorist organizations, pending fifteen days further investigation.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Oct 31, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | October 31

By Jim Rupert

In Russian, Historians Join Kremlin’s Campaign to Label Ukraine ‘Nazi’ via Time Kyivans Rally for Reconstruction of Cinema Torched Amid Screening of LGBT Film via Kyiv Post Photo Essay: Chasing Vote Fraud and Dodging Attack in a Ukrainian Village via Quartz Video, Maps: The Brutal ‘Cease-Fire War’ Over Donetsk’s Airport via Washington Post Russian Movie Star Visits Donbas as ‘Journalist’—and Joins the War via Mashable

Ukraine

Defense Industrialist

Oct 30, 2014

Conglomerates or Alliances?

By James Hasik

  The defense industry may not be headed for another merger wave, but something much more interesting.   Bankers, lawyers, and other business advisors have been waiting for years for that coming wave of mergers amongst military contractors. As one consultant told me recently, his firm was founded on the notion that some post-post-Cold War […]

Defense Industrialist

Oct 30, 2014

An Abundance of Caution, But Not Capacity

By James Hasik

The CDC and the DoD wisely funded an air transport technology for Ebola patients—just not enough of it.   In Tuesday’s Washington Post, Josh Hicks observes that Phoenix Air, a jet-charter service based in Georgia, is the only airline flying Ebola patients from West Africa to hospitals in Europe and North America. Help, however, is on […]

North & West Africa

Defense Industrialist

Oct 27, 2014

Should an End to Urgency Mean an End to Effectiveness?

By Alex Haber

 In defense acquisitions, privileges reserved for urgent needs should be extended to a broader set of systems.   A sense of urgency can bring out the best in us; the US Defense Department’s acquisitions community is no exception. Once the decision was made, it took just 27 months to develop and deploy fully today’s fleet of Mine-Resistant […]

Trade in Action

Oct 24, 2014

TTIP Action | October 23

By Global Business & Economics Program

The Importance of the Internet and Transatlantic Data Flows for US and EU Trade and InvestmentIn his most recent blog entry, Joshua Meltzer, fellow for global economy and development at Brookings, stresses the importance of data flows for transatlantic trade, and global investment. With regards to TTIP, he underlines that the transatlantic economic relationship is […]

Economy & Business
Trade and tariffs

Defense Industrialist

Oct 24, 2014

Robotic overwatch for the Baltic?

By James Hasik

  Unmanned surface vessels could supplement navies in peace and war.   General Sverker Göransson, the Swedish chief of defense, is rather upset that a presumably Russian submarine can waltz into, and then out of, the Stockholm archipelago unchallenged. Before we complain about the previous government’s paying-off the Navy’s sub-hunting CH-46 helicopters before securing their NH-90 replacements, we should […]

NATO
Northern Europe

Cyber Risk Wednesdays

Oct 24, 2014

Cyber Risk Wednesday: Landscape of the cyber threat

By Atlantic Council

On October 22, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative relaunched Cyber Risk Wednesdays, a series of events dedicated to a deeper discussion and understanding of solutions to systemic cyber risks. {soundcloud} https://soundcloud.com/atlanticcouncil/cyber-risk-wednesday-landscape-of-the-cyber-threat {/soundcloud}The first event in the series marked National Cybersecurity Awareness Month with a moderated discussion on the current cyber threat environment with Dmitri Alperovitch, […]

Cybersecurity
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Events

Public Event Thu, February 12, 2026 • 11:00 am ET

Congressman John Moolenaar on deterring aggression against Taiwan

AN #ACFRONTPAGE EVENT—Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, discusses how the United States and Taiwan can strengthen deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.
China Defense Industry Defense Policy Indo-Pacific