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Jan 11, 2016

Grundman on The 2016 US State Of The Union Address

By Steven Grundman

Defense News quotes M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges Steven Grundman on what the 2016 US State of the Union will mean for the US defense budget:

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In the News

Jan 11, 2016

Mirtchev: Is Good Faith Enough To Bank Our Energy Future On Renewables?

By Alexander Mirtchev

Atlantic Council Board Director Alexander Mirtchev writes for Forbes on how feasible renewable technology is after the conclusion of the Paris climate agreement:

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

New Atlanticist

Dec 22, 2015

Stumbling Into Sensibility: How America Got a Sensible Energy and Environment Policy Despite Our Political Polarization

By David L. Goldwyn

After a year of posturing and polarization, President Barack Obama and Congress have agreed on measures that will strategically alter and enhance the US energy system and global energy security. Winston Churchill’s supposed adage that Americans always do the right thing, after exhausting all the alternatives, was never truer. The key measures that have set […]

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NATOSource

Dec 19, 2015

Merry Christmas 2015

By Jorge Benitez, Director of NATOSource

Merry Christmas and thank you to everyone that supported NATOSource during 2015. The NATOSource website will not be updated during the holidays, but you will be able to receive news and updates through our Twitter account: @NATOSource.

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Secretary of Defense (at the time) Chuck Hagel, April 4, 2013

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Dec 18, 2015

Hagel Critiques Obama’s Policies on Syria and Russia

By Dan De Luce, Foreign Policy

[At the time Secretary of Defence Chuck] Hagel wrote a two-page memo to [National Security Advisor Susan] Rice and [Secretary of State John] Kerry — and copied the president — saying the administration needed to decide on its approach to the conflict in Syria and its stance toward the Assad regime.

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Defense Industrialist

Dec 17, 2015

Artificial strategy

By James Hasik

Are even the computers smart enough for the gray zones? General Joseph Votel, head of US Special Operations Command, is worried about “gray zones.” As he told the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities back in March, he is vexed by today’s “ambiguity on the nature of the conflict, the parties involved, and the […]

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SACEUR Gen. Philip Breedlove, May 21, 2015

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Dec 11, 2015

SACEUR Breedlove Looks Back as He Charts NATO’s New Path

By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes

For NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Philip Breedlove, the intelligence coming into his headquarters pointed to a watershed moment for European security, but not everyone wanted to see it that way.

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Defense Industrialist

Dec 10, 2015

Is the LRS-B urgently needed?

By James Hasik and Rachel Rizzo

The new bomber isn’t coming soon, but some stopgaps should be. Seven years ago, Robert Haffa and Michael Isherwood of Northrop Grumman’s Analysis Center argued that the US Air Force urgently needed a new bomber—indeed, by 2018. Enemy missiles, they thought, could shut down the remaining forward airfields from which American fighter-bombers could fly. Those […]

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Trident Nuclear Submarine HMS Victorious, April 4, 2013

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Dec 8, 2015

British Defense: Mind the Gap

By Leo Michel

Michael Fallon, the U.K. Secretary of State for Defense, visits Washington this week, where he might be forgiven for using what Gore Vidal once called “the four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.”

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In the News

Dec 8, 2015

Hruby on the United States and China in Africa

By Aubrey Hruby

BBC quotes Africa Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Aubrey Hruby on the similarities and differences between the United States’ and China’s relationship with Africa:

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