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Nov 17, 2015

Chiu on Climate Change and National Security

By Daniel Chiu

Brent Scowcroft Center Deputy Director Daniel Y. Chiu joins Defense News to discuss Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent address on national security and climate change:

Climate Change & Climate Action
Energy & Environment

In the News

Nov 17, 2015

Benitez on EU “Mutual-Defense Clause”

By Jorge Benitez

The Associated Press quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow and NATOSource Director Jorge Benitez on France’s decision to invoked a never-before-used EU “mutual-defense clause” as opposed to NATO’s Article 5 in requesting assistance from other countries in the fight against ISIS:

European Union
France
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at EDA conference, Nov. 16, 2015

NATOSource

Nov 17, 2015

Secretary General: NATO-EU Status Quo Cannot Continue

By Jens Stoltenberg, NATO

[T]he fight against terror is yet another example of how NATO and the European Union are natural partners. We share the same neighbourhood. We share the same complex security challenges. We share 22 member states.

European Union
International Organizations

Defense Industrialist

Nov 17, 2015

More bombs on Al-Baghdadi

By James Hasik

The GCC air forces need, deserve, and can handle outside support. The tragedy of Paris this past weekend may eventually prove to have been the beginning of the end for the Al-Baghdadi Gang in Al-Raqqah. Wantonly attacking the citizens of two UN Security Council members in a week wasn’t just heinous, it was stupid. So […]

Defense Industry
Saudi Arabia
Minute of silence at NATO headquarters in memory of the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris, Nov. 16, 2015

NATOSource

Nov 16, 2015

NATO Allies Helping France Respond to Paris Attacks

By NATO

We have just held a minute of silence at NATO in memory of the victims of the barbaric terrorist attacks in Paris. Allies stand together with France in sorrow and solidarity. We condemn these attacks in the strongest terms.

France
NATO

In the News

Nov 16, 2015

Ullman: Rejuvenate NATO Now!

By Harlan Ullman

Atlantic Council Senior Adviser Harlan Ullman writes for United Press International on the need for a revitalized NATO to confront the challenges currently facing the alliance:

NATO
Security & Defense

In the News

Nov 14, 2015

The Lawfare Podcast Features John Carlin at the Atlantic Council

By Atlantic Council

The Lawfare Podcast features Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin’s remarks from an Atlantic Council event on national security and the cyber threat landscape:

Cybersecurity
National Security

Defense Industrialist

Nov 13, 2015

The LRS-B and nukes

By James Hasik and Rachel Rizzo

Does the Long-Range Strike Bomber need nuclear capability, and does nuclear capability need the LRS-B? Recapitalizing the air-breathing segment of the American nuclear triad has generally not been the US Air Force’s first argument for developing its new Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B). Sustaining a global capacity for massive, repeated, marginally economical surgical strikes has long been the […]

Defense Policy
Drones

Art of Future Warfare

Nov 13, 2015

‘Rehumanizing’ War

By Alejandro Alvarez

After Veterans Day, authors urge public to remember human element of war A critical divide between the American public and military needs to be overcome to best provide for veterans returning home from war, said a VA official and authors at the Atlantic Council on Nov. 12. “Ignorance flourishes amid apathy, and we are a […]

Conflict
United States and Canada

Report

Nov 13, 2015

Japan’s security role and capabilities in the 2020s

By Roger Cliff

Security challenges in East Asia are becoming acute. North Korea is developing a missile-deliverable nuclear weapon, and the long-term stability of the Pyongyang regime is questionable. Taiwan, which Beijing claims as part of Chinese territory, is about to have a presidential election in which a candidate from a pro-independence party is the front-runner. China has […]

Defense Policy
Japan

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