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New Atlanticist

Jan 22, 2015

‘Heightened Risk’ of Terrorist Attack in West, Top Pentagon Official Says

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Vickers Sees Terrorism and Cyber Attacks as Top Threats to US There is a “heightened risk” of terrorist attacks in the West by groups that have proliferated as a result of the war in Syria and the influence of social media, according to the Pentagon’s top intelligence policy official. Terrorist attacks in Paris this month […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense
President Barack Obama, Jan. 25, 2011

NATOSource

Jan 21, 2015

Transatlantic Priorities in Obama’s State of the Union Address

By White House

My first duty as commander in chief is to defend the United States of America.

Afghanistan Cybersecurity

In the News

Jan 20, 2015

Gopalaswamy: SpaceX’s Falcon Nine Launch Previews Future of Rocketry

By Bharath Gopalaswamy

South Asia Center Acting Director Bharath Gopalaswamy writes for The Hill on California-based SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft:

Space Technology & Innovation
General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Nov. 15, 2011

NATOSource

Jan 12, 2015

Dempsey: Cyber is the Only Domain in Which US has Peer Competitors

By Chris Wallace and Martin Dempsey, Fox News

Excerpt from interview of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey by Chris Wallace, January 11, 2015.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Jan 9, 2015

Unmanned Manning Problems

By James Hasik

Is the USAF trying hard enough to find drone pilots?   The US Air Force is looking for a few good drone operators. The hours are long. The work environment is substantially contained within conex boxes rigged as command centers. The business can get grim, at least on the other end of that video feed. As the squadron commander says […]

Drones Technology & Innovation

New Atlanticist

Dec 23, 2014

United States should discourage “patriotic hackers” from attacking North Korea

By New Atlanticist

Atlantic Council Analysts Say No Easy Response for US to Sony Cyber Attack North Korea’s Internet outage this week could be the work of “good ol’ American patriotic hackers,” according to Jason Healey, director of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative. North Korea’s Internet service appeared to be working again on December 23 following a […]

Cybersecurity Korea

In the News

Dec 23, 2014

Healey: Our Best Cyber Defense is Silicon Valley

By Jason Healey

Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey writes for New York Times’ Room for Debate on why the private sector is the best defense against future cyberattacks: 

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

Dec 20, 2014

Healey on North Korea: “There Are No Good Options”

By Jason Healey

Mashable quotes Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey on how the United States should respond to North Korea’s hack of Sony Pictures:

Cybersecurity Korea

In the News

Dec 20, 2014

Healey on the Future of Cyber Conflict

By Jason Healey

The Hill quotes Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey on what the recent North Korean hack of Sony Pictures means for the future of cyber conflict: 

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

Dec 20, 2014

Healey on Responding to the North Korean Hack on Sony

By Jason Healey

The Daily Beast quotes Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey on why a US response to the cyberattack on Sony should focus on China instead of North Korea:

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

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