Iran and the US: Deadly Embrace or Suicide Pact?

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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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Iran and the US: Deadly Embrace or Suicide Pact?

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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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Defense Policy

Iran and the US: Deadly Embrace or Suicide Pact?

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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 3, 2013

Iran and the US: Deadly Embrace or Suicide Pact?

By Harlan Ullman

During the Cold War, the thermonuclear standoff between the United States and Soviet Union was often described as two scorpions in a bottle. The notion was that both scorpions would sting the other to death no matter which struck first. Of course, the prospect of the scorpions being of the opposite sex with options other […]

Iran
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Apr 2, 2013

The African state and the failure of US counterterrorism initiatives in Africa

By Africa Center

The Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a luncheon presentation by Hussein Solomon, senior professor in the department of political science at the University of the Free State in South Africa, on “The African State and the Failure of US Counterterrorism Initiatives in Africa.” Drawing upon his recent research on Mali, Nigeria, and Somalia, among […]

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New Atlanticist

Apr 2, 2013

Why Less Is More on the Korean Peninsula

By Rajan Menon

On February 12, North Korea conducted its third nuclear weapons test. The UN tightened existing economic sanctions in response. Since then, the Korean peninsula has become an even more dangerous place than usual. Now that’s saying a lot. There’s no place on earth that, per square mile, contains more soldiers and armaments.

East Asia
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NATOSource

Mar 29, 2013

Business is booming in the cyber arms trade

By Economist

From Economist:  It is a type of software sometimes described as “absolute power” or “God”. Small wonder its sales are growing.

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NATOSource

Mar 28, 2013

NATO deactivates Allied Maritime Command Naples

By NATO

From NATO:  [A]fter over forty years of service to the Alliance, Allied Maritime Command Naples (MC Naples) cased its colors following the transfer of its responsibility  to NATO’s new Maritime Command located in Northwood, United Kingdom.

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Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Mar 28, 2013

An Inconvenient or Irritating Truth: Applying Law to the New Face of Modern Warfare

By Jason Thelen

In war, there are rules. Some were written long ago in treaties. Others are found in binding customs written in volumes of commentary compiled over time. The point is that these rules can all be found in written form to cite and to reference. They can be used to describe who can be targeted in […]

Cybersecurity
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New Atlanticist

Mar 28, 2013

Paradigms and National Security

By Derek Reveron

To make sense of our complex world, we rely on paradigms to offer insights to solve problems. After World War II, for example, the dominant paradigm was the Cold War, which envisioned a world divided between free and unfree or democratic-capitalist and authoritarian-socialist countries. The paradigm prevented global cooperation and miscalculations almost led to war. While […]

Cybersecurity
National Security

NATOSource

Mar 27, 2013

Largest public cyber attack in history reveals multiplying threat and long ignored security flaw

By John Markoff and Nicole Perlroth, New York Times

From John Markoff and Nicole Perlroth, New York Times:  A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet

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New Atlanticist

Mar 27, 2013

Reason Finally Gets a Voice: The Tallinn Manual on Cyber War and International Law

By Jason Healey

No longer can a professed cyber expert pronounce, “When is a cyber attack an act of war? This is an interesting question.”  The Tallinn Manual, compiled by a distinguished group of legal scholars and to be launched tomorrow at an Atlantic Council event, asks this and many more questions and—a novelty for the field of cyber […]

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New Atlanticist

Mar 27, 2013

Shocking and Awing

By Harlan Ullman

Ten years ago this month, the United States launched Operation Iraqi Freedom against Saddam Hussein.

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