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Jan 21, 2016

NBC Features Atlantic Council Brent Scowcroft Center Event Series

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Jan 21, 2016

The Hill Features Atlantic Council Brent Scowcroft Center Event Series

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Jan 20, 2016

Recombinant lethality

By James Hasik

What the military departments can learn from SORDAC Yesterday evening, the Atlantic Council hosted James “Hondo” Guerts, chief of the US Special Operations Research, Development and Acquisition Center (SORDAC), for a speech and discussion about what makes his organization different. Uniquely amongst the US acquisition executives, Geurts has integrated responsibility for research, development, procurement, and […]

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Jan 20, 2016

Keeping Georgia’s NATO Dream Alive

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili says progress in European and Euro-Atlantic integration will be a ‘good incentive’ for Georgian support for continuing reforms Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili was catapulted to office in December of 2015 after the abrupt resignation of his predecessor, Irakli Garibashvili. In his previous role as Foreign Minister, Kvirikashvili led significant […]

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Jan 20, 2016

Brent Scowcroft Center SOCOM Event Featured in Defense News

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Jan 20, 2016

Hasik in Real Clear Defense: Recombinant Lethality

By James Hasik

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Gen. Frank Gorenc, Commander of US Air Force in Europe and Africa, Sept. 15, 2014

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Jan 19, 2016

US Air Force General Says Russia Missile Defense ‘Very Serious’

By Rick Gladstone, New York Times

The commander of United States Air Force operations in Europe and Africa expressed “very serious” concern Monday over what he described as big buildups of complex Russian missile defenses

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Jan 19, 2016

Obama Must Institutionalize Iran Nuclear Deal Diplomacy

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Atlantic Council’s Barbara Slavin suggests posting US diplomats to Interests Section in Tehran The United States, the European Union, and the United Nations lifted nuclear-related sanctions on Iran on January 16 after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) certified that Iran is in compliance with the terms of the nuclear deal it reached with the […]

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NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow

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Jan 15, 2016

NATO and 21st Century Deterrence

By Alexander Vershbow, NATO

New and increasingly authoritarian laws have further restricted basic freedoms for Russian civil society. Russia persists with its efforts to undermine Ukraine politically, economically and militarily. Russia has yet to live up to its part of the Minsk agreements, even though there have been a few lulls in the fighting. Russia’s aggressive military build-up continues, […]

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Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Oct. 5, 2015

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Jan 13, 2016

Jens Stoltenberg: NATO’s Role in Fighting Terrorism

By Jens Stoltenberg, Newsweek

NATO is at the forefront of the fight against international terrorism. The aim of its biggest-ever operation was to deny safe haven to international terrorists in Afghanistan.

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