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Defense Industrialist

Aug 2, 2016

How soon is too soon for new weapons?

By James Hasik

Historical perspective should inform the aims of the Pentagon’s Third Offset strategy.  RAND has just released a public version of its study War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable (hat-tip to Council member Byron Callan for bringing that to my attention). For the Army, which sponsored and took in the report last year, authors David Gompert, Astrid Cevallos, […]

Defense Industry
Defense Technologies
Donald Trump, Jan. 9, 2016 (photo: Evan Guest)

NATOSource

Aug 1, 2016

The Logic Behind Our Alliances

By Charles Lane, Washington Post

Perhaps it would help, given recent events in U.S. politics, to review the rationale for U.S. security commitments to allies in Europe and the Far East.

NATO
Russia
Donald Trump, Dec. 16, 2015 (photo: Gage Skidmore)

NATOSource

Aug 1, 2016

Mr. Trump, NATO is an Alliance, Not a Protection Racket

By Michael McFaul, Washington Post

The United States’ greatest “return on investment” from our alliances does not come from increases in their military spending.

NATO
Russia

In the News

Jul 30, 2016

Polyakova Quoted by The Guardian on Trump’s Links to Putin

By Alina Polyakova

Read the full article here.

Cybersecurity
Russia

New Atlanticist

Jul 29, 2016

NATO’s Trump Card

By Fabrice Pothier

As strange as it seems, both US President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump seem to agree on one thing: European allies don’t spend enough on defense and they need to seriously step up. How they both frame this message is where Obama the statesman and Trump the salesman differ. Since Russia’s annexation […]

Elections
European Union
Donald Trump, Feb. 10, 2011 (photo: Gage Skidmore)

NATOSource

Jul 29, 2016

Trump Casually Undermines the World’s Most Important Alliance

By The Economist

On July 20th Donald Trump declared that should the Baltic states be attacked by Russia when he is president, he would come to their aid only if he felt they had met their “obligations”.

NATO
Security & Defense

In the News

Jul 29, 2016

Corman Quoted by The Intercept on the Need to Assess Security Software

By Josh Corman

Read the full article here.

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Jul 28, 2016

Dry powder on stormy seas

By James Hasik

Several large contractors’ quarterly results may indicate a state change in their treatment of investable cash. For about fifteen years now, defense contractors have been reliably generating piles of cash. What to do with all that money? Assuredly, as I wrote in 2013, something with an incentive behind it—and that hasn’t meant investment. Back then, […]

Defense Industry
Security & Defense
Donald Trump, July 21, 2016 (photo: Ida Mae Astute/ABC)

NATOSource

Jul 28, 2016

Trump’s Nuclear Policy and Views on Russia

By Donald J. Trump, David E. Sanger, and Maggie Haberman

Excerpts from edited transcript of interview of Donald J. Trump by David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman of the New York Times

Nuclear Nonproliferation
Russia
Donald Trump, June 18, 2016 (photo: Gage Skidmore)

NATOSource

Jul 28, 2016

Trump’s NATO Policy and Views on Cyber Weapons

By Donald J. Trump, David E. Sanger, and Maggie Haberman

Excerpts from edited transcript of interview of Donald J. Trump by David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman of the New York Times

Cybersecurity
NATO

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