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Defense Industrialist

Aug 6, 2015

TINA + LPTA beats DARPA + SEAL

By James Hasik

Lowest price is no way to buy IT, Silicon Valley or not. Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work and Under Secretary Frank Kendall have dispatched their team to liaise with the worthies of Silicon Valley. Secretary Carter is soon expected there on a goodwill visit as well, and the Pentagon leadership seems serious. As Defense One reported, the new office at Moffett Field […]

Cybersecurity
Defense Industry
Polish President Andrzej Duda and Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, June 18, 2015

NATOSource

Aug 6, 2015

New Polish President Makes NATO Bases in Central Europe a Priority for Warsaw Summit

By Guardian, AP, and Irish Times

From Guardian:  The Conservative politician Andrzej Duda has been sworn in as Poland’s new president, immediately calling for a stronger Nato presence in his country to counter a perceived military threat from Russia.

Germany
NATO

New Atlanticist

Aug 6, 2015

Correcting Obama’s Iran speech

By Matthew Kroenig

Like much political rhetoric, President Barack Obama’s speech in defense of the Iran nuclear deal at American University August 5 contained trenchant insights, but also falsehoods and half-truths. This blog post aims to correct several of the speech’s most erroneous claims. 1. Obama admits the deal doesn’t solve many problems, but he maintains that it […]

Iran
National Security

Report

Aug 5, 2015

Human rights abuses in Russia-occupied Crimea

By Andrii Klymenko

The “green men” who fanned out across Crimea in early 2014, establishing control over key infrastructure and clearing the way for once-marginal political actors to seize the reins of power, were the vanguard of a forced political change that has led to grave human rights abuses across the Crimean peninsula. Firmly in control of the executive and law enforcement bodies, […]

Conflict
English

New Atlanticist

Aug 5, 2015

Obama Gives Passionate Defense of Iran Nuclear Deal

By Barbara Slavin

When President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize shortly after taking office in 2009, he was the first to admit that the honor was premature. Compared to historical giants like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela, Obama told the Nobel committee, his own accomplishments had been “slight.”  But as the first US […]

Iran
National Security
Julianne Smith, former Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Joseph Biden, July 1, 2013

NATOSource

Aug 5, 2015

Former White House Official on the Current State of Transatlantic Security Cooperation

By Foreign Affairs

Excerpts from interview of Julianne Smith by Michael Williams.

NATO
Security & Defense
Should the US build up a stock of cyberweapons?

NATOSource

Aug 4, 2015

Pentagon Seeks Cyber Weapons Strong Enough to Deter Attacks

By Financial Times and Los Angeles Times

From Sam Jones, Financial Times:  James Clapper, the Obama administration’s director of national intelligence, is not given to slips of the tongue.

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense
Russia arms "crime syndicates with sophisticated hacking tools and malware"

NATOSource

Aug 4, 2015

New Twists in Russia’s Cyber Campaign Against NATO and Its Members

By Sam Jones, Financial Times

“I would say it’s pretty brazen really. We are being hit by the Russians more or less every day,” says one Nato military cyber defence specialist.

Cybersecurity
NATO

Art of Future Warfare

Aug 4, 2015

Cole on Cyber World War

By August Cole

NPR’s On Point interviews Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole on his new novel Ghost Fleet, which imagines a hypothetical World War III where the battlefront goes deeply cyber:

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense
RAF Typhoons Intercept Russian Jets, July 24, 2015

NATOSource

Aug 3, 2015

NATO Reports Surge in Jet Interceptions as Russia Tensions Increase

By Alberto Nardelli and George Arnett, Guardian

World powers are reporting surges in airspace violations and instances where aircraft are scrambled to intercept foreign jets, amid a sharp rise in geopolitical tensions in Europe and Asia.

NATO
Russia

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