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New Atlanticist

May 3, 2017

Cyber War’s Terror Trinity: Means, Motive, and Opportunity

By Ian Fairchild

In March of 2003, I commanded an EC-130 Compass Call, an aircraft configured to perform tactical command, control, and communications countermeasures, over the skies of Iraq. My crew’s mission was to jam enemy communications and help allied forces preserve Iraq’s oil infrastructure. During these missions, we positioned ourselves some distance from the intended target, while […]

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense

Issue Brief

May 3, 2017

Strengthening the transatlantic-pacific partnership

By Robert A. Manning

This issue brief is the product of a pilot project of the Atlantic Council’s efforts to establish an Asia-Pacific Center. It is drawn from a series of workshops exploring the key question of how to strengthen Trans-Atlantic-Pacific cooperation on regional and global issues.

Australia
China

Issue Brief

May 3, 2017

Strengthening the transatlantic-pacific partnership

By Robert A. Manning

This issue brief is the product of a pilot project of the Atlantic Council’s efforts to establish an Asia-Pacific Center. It is drawn from a series of workshops exploring the key question of how to strengthen Trans-Atlantic-Pacific cooperation on regional and global issues.

Australia
China
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NATOSource

May 2, 2017

Trump Again Raises NATO Defense Spending in Speech on Domestic Agenda

By Donald Trump, White House/Google Cache Version

Our government rushed to join international agreements where the United States pays the costs and bears the burdens, while other countries get the benefit and pay nothing

NATO
Security & Defense
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NATOSource

May 1, 2017

NATO Considers New Counterterrorism Post Following Trump Demands

By Julian E. Barnes, Wall Street Journal

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is considering appointing a senior official to oversee counterterrorism efforts

Intelligence
NATO

In the News

May 1, 2017

Ullman in UPI: Three ‘Black Holes’ Facing NATO: Strategy, Russia, Weapons

By Harlan Ullman

Read the full article here.

NATO
Russia

In the News

Apr 28, 2017

Vershbow Joins Echo of Moscow to Discuss US-Russia Relations and NATO

By Alexander Vershbow

Listen to the full interview here.

NATO
Russia

Defense Industrialist

Apr 28, 2017

Evolution and the occasional über-gizmo

By James Hasik

Thoughts on corporate strategies in the military aircraft industry  Last week, I provided a guest lecture at the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, that graduate college of the National Defense University formerly known as the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. The school was founded in 1924 as the Army Industrial College, on a […]

Defense Industry
Defense Technologies

In the News

Apr 27, 2017

Stein Quoted by Syria Deeply on Turkish Airstrikes in Syria

By Aaron Stein

Read the full article here.

Missile Defense
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Apr 26, 2017

A Decade After “Web War 1,” Former Estonian President Blasts EU Cyber Inertia

By Teri Schultz

Even as the pervasive and destructive capacity of cyberattacks becomes ever more evident with the alleged Russian meddling in European and American politics, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, a former president of Estonia, marvels at the European Union’s under-performance in dealing with the threat—and he’s pointed in his criticism.  “I think the [European] Commission, in particular the […]

Cybersecurity
Northern Europe

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