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Feb 22, 2016

Cole Quoted by Die Walt on US-Russia Relations and Possible Foreign Policy Scenarios

By August Cole

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Feb 20, 2016

Farkas in Newsweek: How We Can Defeat Putin

By Evelyn Farkas

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Defense Industrialist

Feb 19, 2016

How to kill the Long Range Strike Bomber, part 1

By James Hasik

As Lockheed may soon argue, why not just more stealth fighters and cruise missiles? Early this week, the US Government Accountability Office turned away another contract protest, ruling that the US Air Force had acted reasonably in awarding development of its future Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) to Northrop Grumman. We yet await Boeing’s decision on […]

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New Atlanticist

Feb 18, 2016

Saudi-Iran Rivalry Keeps Oil Prices Down

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Gulf states seen eager to put ‘fiscal squeeze’ on Iran The regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran—the two main producers in a global oil cartel—has become a significant factor behind the sharp decline in oil prices that has also kept rates at historic lows. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf oil-producing countries have watched with […]

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Feb 18, 2016

Pham Quoted by Foreign Policy on US Involvement in Ugandan Elections

By J. Peter Pham

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Feb 18, 2016

Atlantic Council Edelman Trust Barometer Event Featured in Inc. Magazine

By Atlantic Council

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Defense Industrialist

Feb 16, 2016

Economics of the Third Offset, part 1

By James Hasik

Why the shift of billions from procurement to development funding? Funding for American military materiel is set to shift from buying to designing. If the US Congress more-or-less adopts the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2017 budget request, spending on research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) would increase by 5 percent—$6.4 billion—over fiscal 2016 , and procurement would […]

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Feb 12, 2016

End draft registration

By James Hasik

Rather than mandating that women register, just terminate that useless practice. Should women be registered for the draft? Now that Defense Secretary Carter has removed the exclusion of women from all combat jobs, the Army chief of staff, the Marine Corps commandant, and Senator McCaskill of Missouri want all women registered. The secretary himself says that’s […]

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Feb 12, 2016

Zichal Quoted by Public News Service on the EPA’s Clean Power Plan

By Heather Zichal

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Feb 11, 2016

Atlantic Council Event Featured in Military Times

By Atlantic Council

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