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Feb 2, 2017

The Financial Times features the Digital Forensic Research Lab on the escalation of the Russian and Ukrainian conflict

By Atlantic Council

The Financial Times features the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) on the escalation of the Russian and Ukrainian conflict.

Conflict
Disinformation

In the News

Feb 2, 2017

Ward Quoted by the Huffington Post on US Yemen Raid

By Alexander Ward

Read full article here.

National Security
Security & Defense

Emerging Defense Challenges

Feb 1, 2017

Grundman Quoted by Inside Defense on Defense Contractors and the Trump Administration

By Steven Grundman

Read full article here.

Defense Industry
Security & Defense
French Soldier in Afghanistan, October 4, 2010

NATOSource

Feb 1, 2017

Why Trump Should Strengthen America’s ‘French Connection’

By Leo Michel

What does the Trump Administration portend for U.S.-French relations on defense matters?

Cybersecurity
France

In the News

Feb 1, 2017

Corman Quoted by Christian Science Monitor on Russia’s Cyber Attacks

By Joshua Corman

Read the full article here.

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense

UkraineAlert

Feb 1, 2017

Are the Baltic States Really Indefensible?

By Stephen Blank

One of the great canards of our time is that the Baltic states are indefensible. Although the reasons for making this argument are rarely spelled out, they revolve around the presumption that Russia not only enjoys local conventional superiority, but also that NATO cannot and often implicitly should not defend them and thereby make a […]

NATO
Northern Europe

In the News

Jan 29, 2017

Handjani Joins Bloomberg to Discuss President Trump’s Visa Order

By Amir Handjani

Watch full interview here.

Middle East
National Security

In the News

Jan 28, 2017

Hall Hall Quoted by the Scotsman on Trump’s NATO Rhetoric

By Alexandra Hall Hall

Read the full article here.

NATO
Security & Defense
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Jan. 19, 2016

NATOSource

Jan 26, 2017

NATO Chief Confident Trump is Committed to the Alliance

By Jens Stoltenberg, NATO

One key element in that is to make sure that we have a strong transatlantic bond also in this new security environment

Afghanistan
Cybersecurity

Defense Industrialist

Jan 26, 2017

Keep that hiring freeze short

By James Hasik

Really reducing the Pentagon workforce will be a challenging task, because every office needs to be effectively searched for who’s not doing a great job, and who’s not doing a job that really needs to be done. It’s also an important job, because the layering-on of people and offices over the years has created a bureaucratic monster in which simple decisions can take months to effect. So here’s one bit of advice to the new administration, in the interests of efficient administration of defense. Make no small plans at the OMB. Get to work on that plan for eliminating the deadwood, the unimportant, and the sclerotic. Just don’t let this hiring freeze linger. Because until fresh hiring can resume, you’ll get none of the new talent you need.

Defense Policy
Security & Defense

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