US Ambassador: NATO and EU Agree to Synchronize Hybrid Resistance, Cyber Defense, and Military Exercises

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To win the AI race, the US needs an all-of-the-above energy strategy

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To ensure US AI leadership, the United States must harness all forms of energy, allow a level playing field, and remove red tape constraining the buildout of critical enablers, especially transmission lines and grid enhancing technologies.

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US Ambassador: NATO and EU Agree to Synchronize Hybrid Resistance, Cyber Defense, and Military Exercises

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How the Houthis’ strikes on US MQ-9 Reaper drones serve a wider regional agenda

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The United States needs to adjust its drone deployment strategy to ensure that MQ-9 Reapers are less vulnerable to the militant group’s attacks. 

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US Ambassador: NATO and EU Agree to Synchronize Hybrid Resistance, Cyber Defense, and Military Exercises

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Feb 18, 2025

What’s missing from the AI debate? Patience.

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The AI sector is evolving quickly, fueled by a self-reinforcing cycle of investment, commentary, and ambition. In this race for compute, patience is important to sorting out sustainable innovation from speculative excess.

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Permanent Representative to NATO Ambassador Douglas Lute, December 5, 2016

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Dec 5, 2016

US Ambassador: NATO and EU Agree to Synchronize Hybrid Resistance, Cyber Defense, and Military Exercises

By Douglas Lute, US Mission to NATO

[T]he two organizations have agreed on 40 discreet and I think rather concrete actions that can move us forward towards better cooperation.

Cybersecurity European Union

Event Recap

Dec 2, 2016

Drones in the Energy Sector: Soaring into the Future?

By Kate Schwartz

On December 2, 2016, an expert panel joined the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center for a conversation about the practices, risks, and benefits of drone use in the energy industry. The panel deliberated whether regulations currently under development impede or facilitate the emerging role for drones. They also discussed the huge potential for drone technology […]

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Cyber Risk Wednesdays

Nov 30, 2016

Cyber Risk Wednesday: Software Liability—the Good, the Bad, and the Uncomfortable

By Jack Detsch, CSM Passcode

With more cars and medical devices connecting to the internet, what happens if automakers and health care companies don’t start prioritizing digital security? Many cybersecurity experts worry that faulty code in the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) won’t just cause systems to malfunction and freeze. Instead, they say, flaws inside connected cars or pacemakers could […]

Cybersecurity Internet

Defense Industrialist

Nov 28, 2016

Advice to the Trump Administration on the evolution of war

By James Hasik

Technological developments and actual financial constraints demand top-to-bottom rethinking of the business of defense. As I wrote earlier this month, Donald Trump’s unpredicted electoral victory has brought the possibility for real change in the enterprise of national security. To borrow Paul Ryan’s phrase, thoroughly rethinking the business of defense could create a military that moves closer to […]

China Defense Industry
The interactions of the Active Cyber Defence program

NATOSource

Nov 4, 2016

UK Announces New Policy on Cyber Attacks: ‘We Will Strike Back in Kind’

By Philip Hammond, UK Government

In recognition of the risk cyber attacks pose, the government’s 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review classified cyber as a Tier One threat to the UK – that’s the same level as terrorism, or international military conflict.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Nov 4, 2016

The Department of Defense: Facing The Barrel of a Coded Gun

By Ian Fairchild

In October, Mirai malware used default login credentials to compromise thousands of routers, digital video recorders, Internet cameras, and other Internet-connected devices. Mirai then created a botnet with the hacked hardware and targeted Dyn, a key provider of domain name services. The result wreaked havoc across the Internet, taking down several prominent websites and disrupting […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

Nov 3, 2016

Reuters cites DFRLab article on Russian emails

By Atlantic Council

Reuters cites a Medium article by the DFRLab analyzing the authenticity of leaked emails between top Russian advisors and Ukrainian separatists.

Conflict Disinformation

Defense Industrialist

Nov 3, 2016

Technological disjunctures and the 21st century destroyer

By Danny Lam

The future of surface warfare requires cooperation across borders. Sea control in the twentieth century revolved around fleets based on battleships, then aircraft carriers. Lesser vessels like destroyers and frigates were for constabulary duty during peacetime, and during wartime, for assisting the main battle fleet in defeating opposing navies to restore control of seas. In […]

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Director General of the British Security Service Andrew Parker

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Nov 2, 2016

MI5 Head: ‘Increasingly Aggressive’ Russia a Growing Threat to UK

By Ewen MacAskill and Paul Johnson, Guardian

Russia poses an increasing threat to the stability of the UK and is using all the sophisticated tools at its disposal to achieve its aims, the director general of MI5 has told the Guardian.

Cybersecurity Intelligence

Defense Industrialist

Nov 1, 2016

Will Roper’s economical way back to coastal artillery

By James Hasik

Not every Third Offset choice will be this easy, but the Strategic Capabilities Office has found an excellent solution. At the CSIS’s Third Offset Conference last week, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that Will Roper’s Strategic Capabilities Office has found a solution to the United States’ shortfall in coastal artillery. The simplicity is almost obvious: modify the Army’s existing Army Tactical Missile […]

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