Obama Played it Safe in Israel

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Aug 25, 2024

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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Obama Played it Safe in Israel

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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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Adam Kozloski

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

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Obama Played it Safe in Israel

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Aug 21, 2024

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

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Peter Dickinson

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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Apr 8, 2013

Obama Played it Safe in Israel

By Ana Palacio

Now that the dust has settled on President Barack Obama’s much-anticipated trip to Israel, it is possible to analyse the significance of the visit. The trip — the first foreign visit of his second term — carries important implications for US foreign policy. Rather than providing the breakthrough for which many had hoped, it demonstrated […]

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NATOSource

Apr 5, 2013

NATO must become as much knowledge nexus as military nexus

By Julian Lindley-French, New Atlanticist

From Julian Lindley-French, New Atlanticist:  H]ow can NATO address its most pressing emerging security challenge: how to close the strategy-austerity-capability gap?

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Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Apr 5, 2013

Hagel’s Three Questions

By James Joyner

Chuck Hagel recently delivered his first major public-policy address since becoming secretary of defense. While the bulk of his speech at the National Defense University focused on the need to overhaul our spending priorities radically, a nod to the military officers in the audience caught my attention:

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Security & Defense

NATOSource

Apr 5, 2013

Cyber Necessity: Stopping companies from selling insecure software

By Marc Maiffret, New York Times

From Marc Maiffret, New York Times: Too much of the debate begins and ends with the perpetrators and the victims of cyberattacks, and not enough is focused on the real problem: the insecure software or technology that allows such attacks to succeed.

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Security & Defense

NATOSource

Apr 5, 2013

Bulgaria offers to host NATO cyber defense center

By Novinite

From Novinite:  President Rosen Plevneliev has spoken in favor of the creation of a NATO cyber defense backup center in Bulgaria.

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Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Apr 5, 2013

Connecting NATO Forces…and Minds

By Julian Lindley-French

“A thorough examination of the way our military is organized and operates will…highlight our inherent strengths.  Our strategic planning must emphasize these strengths, which include leader development, training, mobility and logistics, special operations forces, cyber, space, research and development.”

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Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Apr 4, 2013

The Military Isn’t Going to Change Anytime Soon

By James Joyner

In his first major policy address as Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel called for a radical overhaul of our armed forces — “not just tweaking or chipping away at existing structures and practices.” While the goal is bold and laudable, history tells us that achieving it is unlikely.

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NATOSource

Apr 4, 2013

The cyber age demands new rules of war

By Zbigniew Brzezinski, Financial Times

From Zbigniew Brzezinski, Financial Times:  The sophisticated dissemination of computer viruses can disrupt the military industrial assets of rivals.

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Apr 4, 2013

Disrupting Undersea Cables: Cyberspace’s Hidden Vulnerability

By Paul Saffo

Early last week, operators noted that there were disruptions on multiple undersea communications cables that terminated in Egypt and nearby destinations, including I-ME-WE, TE-North, EIG, and SEA-ME-WE-3. The sheer number of breaks struck some observers as an odd coincidence, but was chalked up to the chronic problem of dragging ship anchors or tangled bottom-nets snagging the […]

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NATOSource

Apr 3, 2013

Hagel: U.S. ‘has grown weary of war and skeptical of foreign engagements’

By Chuck Hagel, Department of Defense

From Chuck Hagel, Department of Defense :  The United States is emerging from more than a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the threat of violent extremism persists and continues to emanate from weak states and ungoverned spaces in the Middle East and North Africa.

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