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U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft, Jan. 5, 2013

NATOSource

Aug 25, 2015

For the First Time, US Deploying F-22 Stealth Fighter Jets to Europe

By Department of Defense, Defense News, and Washington Post

From Deborah Lee James and Mark Welsh, Department of Defense.  Secretary James:  Russia’s military activity in the Ukraine continues to be of great concern to us and to our European allies.

Europe & Eurasia
NATO

In the News

Aug 24, 2015

Slavin on the Iran Nuclear Deal and US Opinion

By Barbara Slavin

Heinrich Boll Stifting North America interviews South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin on the Iran nuclear deal debate in the United States: 

Iran
Nuclear Nonproliferation
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, June 25, 2015

NATOSource

Aug 24, 2015

Secretary of Defense Carter on Russia and NATO

By Ash Carter, Foreign Affairs

[W]e continue to have the magnetic power to attract everyone around the world. As I travel around the world, I see that they all want more—more association with us, more contribution from us.

NATO
Russia

In the News

Aug 23, 2015

Healey on Cyber Espionage

By Jason Healey

The Epoch Times covers the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Risk Wednesday event and quotes Cyber Statecraft Initiative Nonresident Senior Fellow Jason Healey on the informal rules of espionage that evolved during the Cold War and what they mean for today’s cyber espionage:

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense

In the News

Aug 23, 2015

Hasik on the US Military’s New Tactical Vehicles

By James Hasik

Defense News quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow James Hasik on what Lockheed Martin could gain if the US Army awards them the contract for the new Joint Light Tactical Vehicles:

Defense Industry
Security & Defense

In the News

Aug 22, 2015

Brent Scowcroft: Nuclear Deal Meets ‘Key Objective’ of Limiting Iran to a ‘Strictly Civilian Nuclear Program’

By Atlantic Council

Brent Scowcroft, Chairman of the Atlantic Council’s International Advisory Board, writes in the Washington Post in support of the nuclear deal with Iran:

Iran
Nuclear Nonproliferation

Defense Industrialist

Aug 21, 2015

Every citizen a sensor

By James Hasik

NATO needs more tiny technologies for hybrid warfare. Our experience with counterinsurgency is not done, David Petraeus once said, because insurgents are not done. Some of those recently have been state-sponsored and Russian-speaking, but those highly empowered and malevolent insurgents have been wreaking havoc around the world with the tools of “Democratized Destruction.” Two can play that game, but in […]

Defense Industry
NATO
Swedish Marines participating in BALTOPS exercise with NATO units, June 17, 2015

NATOSource

Aug 21, 2015

A Powerful Case for Swedish Membership in NATO

By Tomas Bertelman, Johan Molander, and Sven-Olof Peterson

This image of a Russia encircled by hostile forces, including an aggressive and growing NATO and European Union, was created to legitimize the regime’s actions.

European Union
International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Aug 20, 2015

Hacks and Attacks: How Do You React When China Conducts a Cyber Attack?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

World had similar feeling of being violated after Snowden’s revelations, says Atlantic Council’s Jason Healey When the news broke earlier this summer that hackers had breached the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and accessed the records of more than twenty million current and former federal employees, it prompted calls to punish China, which was believed […]

China
Cybersecurity

Defense Industrialist

Aug 20, 2015

Kasich wants carriers

By James Hasik

A fleet of fifteen Fords is infeasible, but smaller ships could be added fast. On Saturday, Newport News Shipbuilding will hold a keel-laying ceremony for USS John F. Kennedy, the second of the Gerald Ford-class carriers. Ohio Governor John Kasich is running for president, and he wants yet more aircraft carriers. About five more super-carriers, though […]

China
Defense Industry

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