Braw in Defense One: The 2% Benchmark Is Blinding Us to NATO Members’ Actual Contributions

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Aug 25, 2024

After a failed attack, Hezbollah’s propaganda seeks to prevent a wider war with Israel

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David Daoud

Committed as Hezbollah is to saving its Gaza-based allies, the group does not currently want a full war with Israel.

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Braw in Defense One: The 2% Benchmark Is Blinding Us to NATO Members’ Actual Contributions

New Atlanticist
Aug 21, 2024

How quickly can Taiwan integrate US weapon systems? Speed is essential to help deter China.

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Adam Kozloski

To better prepare Taiwan to defend itself, the United States needs more transparency into Taipei’s weapons integration challenges.

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Braw in Defense One: The 2% Benchmark Is Blinding Us to NATO Members’ Actual Contributions

UkraineAlert
Aug 21, 2024

Invasion? What invasion? Putin is downplaying Ukraine’s Kursk offensive

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Peter Dickinson

Vladimir Putin’s efforts to downplay Ukraine’s invasion of Russia have severely dented his strongman image and make a mockery of the West’s escalation fears, writes Peter Dickinson.

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Oct 12, 2017

Braw in Defense One: The 2% Benchmark Is Blinding Us to NATO Members’ Actual Contributions

By Elisabeth Braw

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New Atlanticist

Oct 10, 2017

What are the Implications of Decertification of the Iran Nuclear Deal?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

The expectation that US President Donald J. Trump will decertify the nuclear deal with Iran this week raises the question: what would be the implications of decertification? Trump faces an October 15 deadline to certify to the US Congress that Iran is complying with the terms of the nuclear agreement that the Islamic Republic struck […]

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Oct 10, 2017

Wieslander Joins the Newsmakers to Discuss the Growing Number of Swedes Supporting Sweden Joining NATO

By Anna Wieslander

Watch the full discussion here.

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Oct 10, 2017

US strategy options for Iran’s regional challenge

By Kenneth M. Pollack and Bilal Y. Saab

In their new paper, entitled US Strategy Options for Iran’s Regional Challenge, Kenneth M. Pollack, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Bilal Y. Saab, senior fellow and director for defense and security at the Middle East Institute, present five alternative strategies that the United States could pursue to limit Iran’s destabilizing activities. After […]

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Defending democracy in the digital era

NATOSource

Oct 9, 2017

Time for a Cyber NATO?

By Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Washington Post

Beyond elections, cyberwarfare has made traditional rules governing armed conflict irrelevant.

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MENASource

Oct 6, 2017

A difficult life in Mosul Post-ISIS

By Mustafa Habib

When the extremist group known as the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) was expelled from the northern city of Mosul, locals there were happy. But now, not so much, says Qassim Badran, a former employee of the local power department. The government stopped paying his salary back in 2014 when the Islamic State, or IS, […]

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Issue Brief

Oct 3, 2017

Ukraine’s internally displaced persons hold a key to peace

By Lauren Van Metre, Steven E. Steiner, and Melinda Haring

“Ukraine’s displaced persons can and should play a role in a sustained peace process, and many are already building bridges and fostering local reconciliation,” write authors Lauren Van Metre, Steven E. Steiner, and Melinda Haring, in “Ukraine’s Internally Displaced Persons Hold a Key to Peace,” a new issue brief by the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu […]

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Democratic Transitions

Issue Brief

Oct 3, 2017

Ukraine’s internally displaced persons hold a key to peace

By Lauren Van Metre, Steven E. Steiner, and Melinda Haring

This paper examines Ukraine’s IDP policies in the context of the largercrisis between Moscow and Kyiv, and is based in part on extensive fieldwork with displaced persons who have settled in Kyiv and Vinnytsia.

Conflict
Democratic Transitions

Defense Industrialist

Oct 3, 2017

The military implications of Catalonian secession—an update

By James Hasik

assuming that Catalonia was admitted to NATO, what would the newly independent country contribute? At the 2014 Strategic Foresight Forum at the Atlantic Council, Anne Marie Slaughter of the New America Foundation opined that an independent Catalonia would do a fine job of defending itself. After all, Catalonia is a country of over 7 million people, with more than $300 billion in GDP. Spending just 1.6% of that—well below the widely-ignored NATO threshold, of course—provides over $4.5 billion annually. y de-emphasizing the military forces that any landlocked country will have, and instead steering investments towards those it is comparatively positioned to provide, Catalonia could punch above its weight in European political affairs.

Defense Policy
Eastern Europe

New Atlanticist

Oct 2, 2017

Without focus on the fundamentals, disaster relief fails to deliver

By Christine Wormuth

As outrage grows over the federal government’s slow response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, it is fair to ask why this effort seems halting compared to that for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in Texas and Florida.

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