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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?

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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

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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
Norwegian and Italian figher jets participating in NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission, May 22, 2015

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Aug 3, 2015

NATO to Cut Half the Jets Patrolling Baltic Allies

By Alberto Nardelli and George Arnett, Guardian

Nato member aircraft were forced to conduct more than 500 scrambles over Europe in 2014 – a fourfold increase on the previous year.

NATO
Northern Europe

In the News

Aug 2, 2015

Huntsman on Chinese Cyber Espionage

By Jon Huntsman

Newsmax quotes Atlantic Council Chairman Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. from an interview with AM 970 New York’s The Cats Roundtable in an article on why the United States needs to formulate a stronger response to Chinese cyber espionage:

China
Cybersecurity

In the News

Aug 2, 2015

Huntsman on US Response to China Hacks

By Jon Huntsman

The Hill quotes Atlantic Council Chairman Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. in an article on why the United States needs to develop a stronger response to Chinese hacking:

China
Cybersecurity

Defense Industrialist

Aug 2, 2015

Why don’t defense contractors do cyber?

By James Hasik

For all but Raytheon, a whole new realm of conflict seems disinteresting to industry. Going on eight years now, Raytheon has been mounting a strategic campaign in cyber security. This past April, the company spent $1.7 billion on Austin-based Websense, the 13th cyber business it has purchased since October 2007 (Defense Mergers & Acquisitions Daily, 20 […]

Cybersecurity
Defense Industry

Event Recap

Jul 31, 2015

Should the US engage in espionage for economic gain?

By Malena Carollo

Economic espionage is common across the world: Many countries use their intelligence apparatus to steal foreign trade secrets for the benefit of their own private sectors. The US, however, publicly opposes this kind of spying for economic gain on moral grounds and insists it does not participate. Should it? A panel of cybersecurity and legal […]

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense

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