Hasik Quoted by the Wall Street Journal on the Trump Administration and the Defense Industry

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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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Israel

Hasik Quoted by the Wall Street Journal on the Trump Administration and the Defense Industry

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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Defense Policy

Hasik Quoted by the Wall Street Journal on the Trump Administration and the Defense Industry

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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Emerging Defense Challenges

Dec 12, 2016

Hasik Quoted by the Wall Street Journal on the Trump Administration and the Defense Industry

By James Hasik

Read the full article here.

Defense Industry
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dec. 2, 2016

NATOSource

Dec 12, 2016

Head of Intelligence Warns of Russian Influence Operations Inside Sweden

By The Local (Sweden)

Must is the branch of the Swedish Armed Forces that is the main foreign intelligence agency in the country. Its head, Major General Gunnar Karlson, spoke openly about Russian attempts to influence Sweden during an interview with SVT’s Agenda show on Sunday evening….

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Northern Europe
President-elect Donald Trump, Dec. 6, 2016

NATOSource

Dec 8, 2016

Donald Trump’s Position on the Use of US Military Power

By Donald Trump, C-SPAN

And finally, a commitment to only engage the use of military forces when it’s in the vital national security interest of the United States.

NATO
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Dec 8, 2016

‘Channeling Brussels’ with Sandy Vershbow

By Teri Schultz

Former NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander “Sandy” Vershbow on the challenge posed by Russia When someone with the long-range perspective of Alexander “Sandy” Vershbow says relations with Russia are the worst he’s seen in his entire career, everyone should take notice. In this week’s “Channeling Brussels,” Vershbow calls 2014, with Russia’s takeover of Ukraine’s Crimea […]

NATO
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Defense Industrialist

Dec 8, 2016

Negotiating with the deal-guy-in-chief

By James Hasik

On surviving those UCAs, finding that $125 billion, and becoming the monopsonist’s apprentice. The mood at the Aerospace Industries Association luncheon this week, Tony Bertuca reported for Inside Defense, was grim. As AIA CEO Dave Melcher put it, it’s a “relatively new phenomenon” for the president-elect to call out the country’s largest aerospace company on a big program like the new Air […]

Defense Industry
Economy & Business

Event Recap

Dec 8, 2016

Henry Bacon Seminar 2016: The North Atlantic – Old Security Landscape Reemerging?

By Lauren Speranza and Marija Vaicekauskaite

On December 8, we partnered with the Norwegian Embassy for its annual Henry Bacon Seminar. This year’s seminar, The North Atlantic–Old Security Landscape Reemerging, focused on the growing security challenges in the North Atlantic, in light of Russia’s increasing assertiveness and military build-up in the region. With the new US administration preparing to take office, […]

NATO
Security & Defense

In the News

Dec 7, 2016

Farkas Quoted by the Guardian on Montenegro’s Accession Bid to NATO

By Evelyn Farkas

Read the full article here.

NATO
Security & Defense
Secretary of State John Kerry at NATO headquarters, Dec. 6, 2016

NATOSource

Dec 6, 2016

John Kerry: US ‘Commitment to NATO and to Article 5 Transcends Politics’

By John Kerry, Department of State

SECRETARY KERRY: I make the point today and I made the point to my colleagues that the change of an administration in the United States will not change the unwavering commitment of the United States to these ideals or to our NATO obligations.

NATO
Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Dec 6, 2016

Innovation before scale

By Steve Grundman, James Hasik

A better business model for transnational armaments cooperation The Royal United Services Institution has just published in RUSI Journal (vol. 161, no. 5, October–November 2016) the latest long essay of the Defense Industrialist project of the Atlantic Council. The abstract encapsulates our argument:     The traditional business model of transnational cooperation in armaments development and production is not […]

Defense Industry
Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Dec 6, 2016

Taking Stock of the Challenge Posed by Russia

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US representative to the OSCE, Daniel B. Baer, responds to European call for arms control talks with Moscow The United States shares European concerns about the erosion of Russian compliance with international treaties, but “it is not self-evident that the way forward is new commitments,” as has been proposed by the foreign ministers of fourteen […]

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