Pivot Toward Pacific not Away from Middle East

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Nov 13, 2024

The threat from wildfires is growing. The US needs a unified response.

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Dan Hart

Congress should create a modern, centralized wildfire intelligence system that can serve firefighters nationwide.

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Pivot Toward Pacific not Away from Middle East

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Sep 26, 2024

The Secret Service needs a budget increase—but so does the rest of the Department of Homeland Security

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Thomas S. Warrick

On Wednesday, Congress passed a bill to increase Secret Service funding in response to threats, after two assassination attempts against Donald Trump. The same logic should apply to the overall DHS budget.

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Pivot Toward Pacific not Away from Middle East

New Atlanticist
Sep 25, 2024

What the next administration should do to ensure US economic and national security

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The next administration must protect sensitive US technology, drive the energy transition, and safeguard the global financial system.

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New Atlanticist

Jan 17, 2013

Pivot Toward Pacific not Away from Middle East

By Aaron Burgstein

Since the announced “pivot” to the Pacific, much hand-wringing and consternation has focused on what it means for the United States’ security relationships with Europe.

Middle East
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New Atlanticist

Jan 15, 2013

Obama’s Team of Mentors and His Legacy

By Frederick Kempe

President Barack Obama has been commander-in-chief for four years, but the world only now will see the full flower of Obama foreign policy unfold. It likely will have less to do with any grand ambition to shape an increasingly dangerous world, and instead will be focused on avoiding new wars as he focuses on what […]

National Security
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jan 9, 2013

In Syria, War is the New Normal

By Rajan Menon

After 22 months of civil war, in which an estimated 60,000 people have died, Syrian President Bashar Assad gave a defiant speech Sunday that ruled out negotiations with rebel fighters and made clear that he intends to remain in power as long as possible. Assad’s words came as no great surprise. Seasoned diplomats, including former […]

National Security
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jan 8, 2013

Economic, Not Security Strategy, Key for Stability in South China Sea

By Philip Haxel

For all of its economic dynamism, the regional stability of the Asia-Pacific is increasingly threatened by conflicting claims over small rocks and archipelagos in the South China Sea. However trivial these disputes may appear, a breakout into physical conflict would have massive ramifications for the US economy, as each year 1.2 trillion dollars in US […]

Economy & Business
Maritime Security

New Atlanticist

Jan 8, 2013

Saving Syria from Assad

By Julian Lindley-French

Syrian President Assad left little grounds for optimism in his 6 January ‘peace’ initiative. Clearly there can now be no peace with Assad but what will it take to get rid of him and what would happen if he went?

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Security & Defense
Chuck Hagel: A Defense Secretary Who Knows Price of War

New Atlanticist

Jan 7, 2013

Chuck Hagel: A Defense Secretary Who Knows Price of War

By James Joyner

President Obama has just announced the nomination of Senator Chuck Hagel, the chairman of the Atlantic Council, to be the 24th Secretary of Defense.   ATLANTIC COUNCIL PRESS RELEASE on Hagel’s nomination Full transcript of President Obama’s remarks If Hagel survives the nomination fight in the Senate—and I believe he will—he’ll be the second consecutive […]

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Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jan 4, 2013

Countdown to Armageddon

By Harlan Ullman

10, 9, 8, 7 …… refers to a countdown. The larger question is count down to what?

Economy & Business
National Security

New Atlanticist

Jan 2, 2013

Time for Strategic Learning

By Harlan Ullman

British Field Marshall Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookebrorough, one of World War II’s most accomplished and distinguished generals, regularly complained about the lack of American strategic thinking. In Alanbrooke’s view (and Churchill’s too) Washington was too anxious to open a second front the continent and woefully unprepared to face the superior Nazi Army in battle. Hence, […]

National Security
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Dec 6, 2012

Drone Strike on Democracy

By James Joyner

As a theoretical matter, remotely piloted vehicles are simply a tool of warfare, morally indistinguishable from manned aircraft. The more efficiently the United States can target and kill its enemies, the better. And drones are cheaper to operate, carry far less risk for American military personnel, and make it easier to collect operational intelligence than their manned […]

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New Atlanticist

Dec 5, 2012

President Obama Should Save Political Fights for the Economy

By Harlan Ullman

About eight decades ago, the great American humorist Will Rogers wryly observed that whenever Congress wanted to play a joke on its constituents, it passed a law. And more sarcastically, Rogers concluded that every law Congress passed was a joke.

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