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Jan 6, 2021

Greenwald on CNBC highlights importance of Gulf State unity against Iran

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Taliban 2.0. – Have the Taliban really changed and learnt their lesson?

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With negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban under way, many in the West and Afghanistan are banking on the fact that the Taliban movement has changed and that, having failed to defeat them militarily, it is time to embrace them. Although the latter is indeed true - that we have failed to defeat the Taliban militarily - the former deserves more scrutiny.

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Jan 5, 2021

All roads lead to Ukraine in Putin’s global hybrid war

By Peter Dickinson

For the past seven years, Russia has been waging a campaign of hybrid hostilities against the West. This confrontation began in Ukraine, and events in Ukraine remain central to what has become a new Cold War.

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Jan 5, 2021

Borghard in NewPort Papers: Ten years in: Implementing strategic approaches to cyberspace

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Erica and co-author Shawn Lonergan published a book chapter, “Public-Private Partnerships in Cyberspace in an Era of Great-Power Competition” in the edited volume, Ten Years In: Implementing Strategic Approaches to Cyberspace.The chapter provides a framework for implementing a public-private collaboration to defend the U.S. in cyberspace. More about our expert

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Fontenrose joins CNBC to discuss Iran’s announcement that it was enriching uranium to 20% purity
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Jan 5, 2021

End the Russian veto on Georgian accession: NATO 20/2020 podcast

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Admitting Georgia to NATO without extending an Article 5 guarantee to the Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Regions can fulfill the promise of the Bucharest Summit.

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