What Uber Can Teach the Pentagon

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After a failed attack, Hezbollah’s propaganda seeks to prevent a wider war with Israel

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David Daoud

Committed as Hezbollah is to saving its Gaza-based allies, the group does not currently want a full war with Israel.

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What Uber Can Teach the Pentagon

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Aug 21, 2024

How quickly can Taiwan integrate US weapon systems? Speed is essential to help deter China.

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To better prepare Taiwan to defend itself, the United States needs more transparency into Taipei’s weapons integration challenges.

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What Uber Can Teach the Pentagon

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Invasion? What invasion? Putin is downplaying Ukraine’s Kursk offensive

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Vladimir Putin’s efforts to downplay Ukraine’s invasion of Russia have severely dented his strongman image and make a mockery of the West’s escalation fears, writes Peter Dickinson.

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Defense Industrialist

Aug 19, 2014

What Uber Can Teach the Pentagon

By James Hasik

The appointment of SVP Emil Michael to the Defense Business Board is a good start.   Last week, the Defense Department announced that fully eight new members would be joining its Defense Business Board, the panel that advises the Pentagon on, well, business. We might hope that the Defense would pay more attention to its Business Board, […]

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Security & Defense
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, March 11, 2014

NATOSource

Aug 18, 2014

Merkel Pledges NATO Will Defend Baltic Allies

By Reuters

Germany’s Angela Merkel promised the Baltic states on Monday that NATO would defend them, although it would not send permanent combat troops but would increase maneuvers.

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NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Philip Breedlove in Canada, May 6, 2014

NATOSource

Aug 18, 2014

NATO Would Respond Militarily to ‘Little Green Men’

By Michelle Martin and Adrian Croft, Reuters

If Russia tries to infiltrate troops into a NATO country, even out of official military uniform as it did before it annexed Ukraine’s Crimea, NATO will respond militarily, the alliance’s top commander said in an interview published on Sunday.

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Russia
NATO's decreasing number of sub-strategic nuclear weapons in Europe

NATOSource

Aug 18, 2014

NATO-Based Nuclear Weapons are an Advantage in a Dangerous World

By Brent Scowcroft, Stephen J. Hadley and Franklin Miller, Washington Post

When NATO’s leaders gather in Wales in early September, they will address several issues critical to the alliance

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Nuclear Nonproliferation
Russian President Vladimir Putin, August 5, 2014

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Aug 18, 2014

A NATO for a Dangerous World

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Philip M. Breedlove, Wall Street Journal

Now, an unprecedented period of peace has been challenged by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

NATO
Russia
UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow, April 14, 2013

NATOSource

Aug 15, 2014

Special Summit Series: The United Arab Emirates and NATO

By Bilal Y. Saab

The United Arab Emirates has said and done all the right things to prove that it wants a stronger partnership with NATO.

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NATO Partnerships
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, June 25, 2014

NATOSource

Aug 15, 2014

NATO Chief Confirms ‘Russian Incursion’ into Ukraine

By Reuters

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday a “Russian incursion” into Ukraine had occurred overnight, but stopped short of characterizing it as an invasion.

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Russia

In the News

Aug 15, 2014

Saab on What the UAE Really Wants from NATO

By Bilal Y. Saab

Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow for Middle East Security Bilal Y. Saab writes for Foreign Affairs on what the United Arab Emirates wants from collaboration with NATO. 

NATO
NATO Partnerships

New Atlanticist

Aug 15, 2014

A Smart US Investment for Georgia’s Future

By Nino Ghvinadze and Laura Linderman

Despite Georgia’s readiness to become a candidate for NATO, the Alliance announced in late June that Georgia will not be offered a Membership Action Plan (MAP) at the Wales Summit this September. This is disappointing news for Georgia, which has undertaken years of political and military reforms and has long awaited to be welcomed into the […]

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NATO Partnerships

Issue Brief

Aug 14, 2014

Why nuclear deterrence still matters to NATO

By Matthew Kroenig and Walter B. Slocombe

Over the past two decades, nuclear weapons have been deemphasized in NATO planning, but this should not be interpreted to mean that the Alliance has abandoned the core principle that a nuclear attack will meet a nuclear response, or that NATO will not retain the necessary means to deliver such a response. In the latest […]

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