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Senior Legal & Policy Advisor, China Lead

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Elise Baker

Senior Staff Lawyer, Strategic Litigation Project

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Vik Bakshi

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

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Denver Barrows 

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

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Allison Bennett Irion

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

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Defense Industrialist

Jul 6, 2014

Four Questions on the LRS-B, Part 4

By James Hasik

Can it Meet its Cost and Schedule Objectives?  Weeks later, we are still awaiting that RFP for the LRS-B, the one that was supposed to be available “within days” back in mid-June. Early on, I had formulated four questions that I thought any policymaker ought to ask about the program. It is entirely possible that a classified […]

Defense Industrialist

Jul 3, 2014

Battlestar Google

By James Hasik

How is DARPA supposed to build its Cylons if Google is buying all its contractors? Schaft and Boston Dynamics are the two robotics companies that recently took first and second place in the penultimate round of the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Both were bought by Google last December, and with an announcement from the new parent company […]

What the Failures of Iraqi and Ukrainian Armies Can Teach Us

Defense Industrialist

Jul 3, 2014

On the Failures of the Iraqi and Ukrainian Armies

By James Hasik

Political change must precede successful assistance from the west. The collapse of the Iraqi Army last month did seem shocking: eight hundred gunmen from the jihadist group formerly known as ISIS, armed with nothing heavier than a DiShKa on a technical, somehow routed two Iraqi divisions in just days. As I noted last weekend, Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki blames this fiasco on […]

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In the News

Jul 1, 2014

Chris Brummer speaks at Thomson Reuters Compliance & Risk Summit

On June 18, 2014, Chris Brummer, the C. Boyden Gray Fellow on Global Growth and Finance at the Atlantic Council, Erin Murphy, Global Chief Operating Officer of Compliance at BlackRock, and Jens Harpoth, UBS Head of Change Management and Compliance in the Americas, spoke at the Thomson Reuters Compliance & Risk Summit. During the panel, […]

Defense Industrialist

Jun 29, 2014

Russian Military-Industrial Complex 1, USA’s 0.

By James Hasik

Dmitry Rogozin’s people got jets and pilots to Iraq yesterday. In yesterday’s Ottawa Citizen, David Pugliese quoted Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as finding yet another way to blame the collapse of his army on the United States. His new F-16s are not due to arrive until the autumn, and he asserts that “if we had air […]

Iraq

Defense Industrialist

Jun 20, 2014

Four Questions on the LRS-B, Part 3

By James Hasik

Does it really need a nuclear capability? “Within days,” Air Force Assistant Secretary Bill LaPlante told us at the beginning of the week, but we’re still awaiting that RFP on the LRS-B. So, I continue to prematurely work through the four questions that I believe policymakers should want answered if the program is to proceed. To recap […]

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LatAmSource

Jun 20, 2014

Colombia Bets in Favor of Peace

By Carlos Guzman

Colombians cast their vote for the presidential elections this last Sunday, leading to the re-election of incumbent president Juan Manuel Santos. The question of what the bitterly contested election’s final result means for the near future of the Andean country reigns as the dust settles from Sunday’s vote. Amid good economic conditions, an improving quality […]

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Defense Industrialist

Jun 19, 2014

Four Questions on the LRS-B, Part 2

By James Hasik

What’s the real range requirement for a “long-range” bomber? As we await whatever is releasable in the US Air Force’s request for proposal (RFP) for a new Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B), I am working through the four questions that I believe policymakers should want answered if the program is to proceed. To recap from yesterday, those are If the bomber […]

Defense Industrialist

Jun 18, 2014

Four questions on the LRS-B

By James Hasik

Part One—How survivable will today’s bomber be a decade on? In the next few days, the US Air Force will release its request for proposals for its long-planned Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B). Two proposals are expected: one from a team of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, and one from B-2 builder Northrop Grumman. The program should proceed quickly: Speaking at an Atlantic […]

LatAmSource

Jun 17, 2014

World Cup Q&A with Adrienne Arsht Center Directors

Five days into the World cup, we sat down with the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Center Director Peter Schechter and Deputy Director Jason Marczak to get their predicitons on the 2014 World Cup and what it will mean looking ahead.  Here is what they had to say. 

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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.
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