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Defense Industrialist

May 16, 2016

Can’t the Air Force be trusted to buy a few helicopters?

By James Hasik

Decisions about competition for the LRV and UH-1N show why McCain’s initiative against USD AT&L really matters. Senator John McCain of Arizona, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, wants to blow up the Pentagon’s Under Secretariat for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD AT&L). More specifically, his committee’s writing of the National Defense Authorization Act of […]

Defense Industry
Security & Defense
Noble Jump exercise for NATO's VJTF, June 18, 2015

NATOSource

May 16, 2016

NATO Rapid Unit Not Fit for Eastern Europe Deployment, say Generals

By Sam Jones, Financial Times

Nato’s new “spearhead” rapid reaction force could not be deployed in eastern Europe if there was a war with Russia, according to the alliance’s own military assessments.

NATO
Poland

In the News

May 16, 2016

Gramer in Politico Europe: How to Breathe Life into an Ailing NATO Alliance

By Robbie Gramer

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NATO
Security & Defense

In the News

May 15, 2016

Nordenman in Defense One: To Confront Russia’s Subs, NATO Should Team Up on ASW Aircraft

By Magnus Nordenman

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NATO
Russia

FutureSource

May 13, 2016

The Cybersecurity Conundrum

By Robert A. Manning

A quarter-century on, as whole new layers of a burgeoning digital economy like the Internet of Things (IoT) rest on it, the Internet faces an array of challenges from the Dark Side that its inventors never quite anticipated.

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense

In the News

May 13, 2016

Corman’s Keynote at the IoT Conference Quoted by the Register

By Joshua Corman

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Cybersecurity
Security & Defense
President of the BfV Hans-Georg Maassen, July 17, 2012

NATOSource

May 13, 2016

German Intelligence Accuses Russia of Mounting Series of International Cyber-Attacks

By AFP, Deutsche Welle, and Reuters

From AFP:  Germany’s domestic secret service has accused Russia of a series of international cyber-attacks aimed at spying and sabotage, in “hybrid warfare” that also targeted the German parliament last year.

Cybersecurity
Germany

New Atlanticist

May 13, 2016

Contributions to NATO More Than Just Budgetary, says Canada’s Defense Minister

By Ashish Kumar Sen

NATO member states’ defense expenditure must be measured in much more than just budgetary terms, Canada’s Defense Minister, Harjit Sajjan, said on May 12. “We had 158 soldiers who died, sacrificed, in Afghanistan. This is a contribution that we made,” Sajjan, a veteran of the Afghan war, said in a brief interaction with journalists at […]

Iraq
NATO

In the News

May 12, 2016

Healey Quoted by Federal Computer Weekly on the Cyber Act of War Act of 2016

By Jason Healey

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Cybersecurity
Security & Defense

Event Recap

May 12, 2016

Private Strategy Session with H.E. Harjit Singh Sajjan

By Transatlantic Security Initiative

On May 12, 2016 the Atlantic Council hosted a private strategy session with Canada’s Minister of National Defense, Harjit Singh Sajjan. The event convened a small group of distinguished experts to offer insights and analysis into key security challenges, including Russia, the new security landscape in Europe, and security threats to North America. The Minister […]

NATO
Security & Defense

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