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15 March 2019

India’s and Pakistan’s Lies Thwarted a War—For Now

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BY C. CHRISTINE FAIR Source Link Lying about facts to de-escalate tension in Kashmir is a playbook they’ve both used before. In ...

Coal is king in India—and will likely remain so

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Samantha Gross Source Link In conversations about avoiding the worst impacts of climate change, removing coal from the world’s energ...

Trump Is on the Cusp of Opening Another Trade War—With India

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Kimberly Ann Elliott Source Link In its early days, the international trade regime that the United States and its allies created aft...

Pakistan: Brutal Assimilation In Gilgit Baltistan

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By Ajit Kumar Singh* Source Link According to a February 13, 2019, report, the health of political leader Baba Jan, one of the most ...

Could Pakistan Provoke a Nuclear War?

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By: Adrienne Thompson Source Link Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal remains exposed to terrorist organizations holding anti-western sentime...

Time for the US to Stop Ignoring Bangladesh

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By Arafat Kabir Source Link Bangladesh is one of those countries that should receive attention from Washington but typically do no...

China's Economy: Not So Big After All

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by Salvatore Babones Source Link China’s economy isn’t what it used to be (at least as recently as last week). Four intrepid econom...

China’s ‘Debt Diplomacy’ Is a Misnomer. Call It ‘Crony Diplomacy.’

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By Mark Akpaninyie Source Link In the summer of 2018, Sri Lanka saw the last remaining airline pull out of its second internationa...

In the Gulf, China plays to win but US has upper hand

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BY MICHAEL B. GREENWALD Source Link Saudi Vision 2030 — Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s bid to diversify his nation’s oil-depende...

China sells arms to more countries and is world’s biggest exporter of armed drones, says Swedish think tank SIPRI

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Zhenhua Lu Source Link China sells arms to more countries and is world’s biggest exporter of armed drones, says Swedish think tank S...

China Revives Oil And Gas Reform Plan

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By Michael Lelyveld Source Link After previous predictions have gone by the boards, China’s government has confirmed plans for major...

China Opens New Military Base In Tajikistan

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By Emil Avdaliani Source Link Western media outlets recently announced China has built military facilities on the Tajik side of the ...

It’s Sun Tzu’s Time in the Barrel

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John F. Sullivan Source Link Insurgents seeking to spark a revolution in the rather staid field of military strategic theory often u...

Combating China's Information Operations

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By Chris Zappone Source Link ‘Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests’, British statesman Lo...

THE HUAWEI CASE SIGNALS THE NEW US–CHINA COLD WAR OVER TECH

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ZACHARY KARABELL Source Link THE DEEPENING SAGA of the US government’s campaign against Chinese tech company Huawei intensified this...

Donald Trump's Defense Budget Masks a Problem

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by Rick Berger Mackenzie Eaglen Source Link A $743 billion annual military budget is a lot of money. Characterizing it as lacking ...

America’s Golden Opportunity to Demonstrate Its Support for ‘International Order ‘

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By Mark J. Valencia Source Link The struggle between China and the United States for dominance in the South China Sea has raised...

Should The US Step Up Its Military Presence In The South China Sea?

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By Mark J. Valencia Source Link A recent article in The National Interest posed the question “Are [US] Freedom of Navigation Operati...

An American National Information Security Strategy

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By: Kevin Truitte Source Link In today’s Digital Age, information is a potent weapon. American adversaries such as Russia and China ...

Russian Military Chief Outlines Aggressive Anti-U.S. War Strategy

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BY: Bill Gertz Source Link Russia’s large-scale military buildup is being augmented by greater use of non-military warfare against...

Table-Top Attack Simulations: Cyber Resilience's Swiss Army Knife

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Michael Coden Source Link Just as military commands play war games, organizations plan their own “fire drills” for cyberattacks. At ...

Tackling Hypersonic Threats: Offense Or Missile Defense?

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By COLIN CLARK Source Link The great majority of the chatter one hears from the US military about hypersonic missiles is how to spot...

White House ups DoD cyber budget request

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By: Mark Pomerleau  Source Link Jeff Martin breaks down 5 things that Defense News learned from the Pentagon's 2020 defense budg...

An American National Information Security Strategy

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By: Kevin Truitte Source Link   In today’s Digital Age, information is a potent weapon. American adversaries such as Russia and Chin...

Can DoD’s cyber teams overcome readiness issues?

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Mark Pomerleau  Source Link A Cyber Soldier assigned to the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade prepares his equipment inside a St...

Does USS Truman’s Early Retirement Herald a New War on Carriers?

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BY THOMAS CALLENDER Source Link Whatever the promise of emerging technologies, combatant commanders still want more floating mobile ...

Army Reboots Cruise Missile Defense: IFPC & Iron Dome

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By SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR Source Link WASHINGTON: The Army is effectively rebooting a key air and missile defense program, IFPC , to...

Why DoD Cut A Carrier in 2020 Budget: Survivable Robots & Missiles Vs. China

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SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR. Source Link A Marine Corps F-18 Hornet launches from the USS Harry Truman WASHINGTON: Acting Defense Sec...

Global arms trade: USA increases dominance; arms flows to the Middle East surge, says SIPRI

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Source Link The trend in international transfers of major weapons, 1979—2018. Data and graphic: SIPRI (Stockholm, 11 March 2019)...

Does USS Truman’s Early Retirement Herald a New War on Carriers?

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BY THOMAS CALLENDER Source Link Whatever the promise of emerging technologies, combatant commanders still want more floating mobile ...
14 March 2019

U.S. presses India to stop buying oil from Venezuela’s Maduro: envoy

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By Lesley Wroughton, Luc Cohen, Marianna Parraga, Reuters Source Link The United States is pressing India to stop buying oil from Ve...

Call Me, Maybe? America’s Taliban Hotline and India’s Afghanistan Redux

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CHAYANIKA SAXENA Source Link Amongst the many initiatives to end the Afghan conflict, the one led by the US Special Representative f...

Everyone Wants a Piece of Afghanistan

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BY BARNETT R. RUBIN Source Link President Donald Trump’s intention to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan has given new life to th...

Former Taliban Leader Mullah Omar, “Lived Within Walking Distance Of American Military Bases In Afghanistan For Years, In Embarrassing Failure Of U.S. Intelligence; Though Gen. (Ret.) Petraeus Has His Doubts

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Source Link Leigh McManus posted a March 11, 2019 article on the website of the DailyMail.com noting that one of the U.S. Government’s...

What’s Causing China’s Economic Slowdown And How Beijing Will Respond

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By Christopher Balding Source Link Last year, China experienced its slowest economic growth in nearly three decades. The trouble se...