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30 October 2022

Nuclear, missile defense reviews target increasing Russian, Chinese threats

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THERESA HITCHENS Source Link WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s new nuclear and missile defense reviews, released in unclassified forma...

The new National Defense Strategy keeps the Pentagon’s focus locked on China

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VALERIE INSINNA Source Link WASHINGTON — After six months of delays, the Biden administration today released the unclassified version of its...

Challenging The Structures Of The Current Era

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Source Link It has long been my belief that the structures supporting this current era have experienced diminished effectiveness and are rea...
29 October 2022

China Virtually Tested Launching Nuclear Weapons at Satellites

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Caleb Larson Source Link Chinese physicists are experimenting with disabling satellites in space to disrupt the communications and surveill...

Ukraine and the Cuban Missile Crisis: What Would JFK Do?

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Graham Allison  Source Link Sixty years ago today, October 27, 1962, was the darkest day of what historians agree was the most dangerous cri...

Hi, What Are You Looking For?

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Dakota Wood Source Link Is Report of U.S. Military Weaknesses Silly and Dangerous or Spot-On and Alarming?: According to Politico , an anony...

Inside Elon Musk’s Big Plans for Twitter

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Mike Isaac, Lauren Hirsch and Anupreeta Das Source Link Elon Musk has never been accused of dreaming small. He has reinvented at least two ...

JUST IN: China Has ‘Theory of Victory’ to Defeat U.S. Military, Report Finds

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Josh Luckenbaugh Source Link China has not only closed the military capability gap and increased competition with the United States, but als...

Russian 'Document Trove' Shows Scope of Country's Military Problems

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JAKE THOMAS  Source Link AU.S. think tank says newly uncovered documents from an abandoned Russian command post underscore how weakened Russ...

Washington Should Halt Military Welfare for Europe

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Doug Bandow Source Link Is Europe threatened or not? For months, the United Kingdom has been leading the charge against Russia over Ukraine....

Retired general’s pro-Saudi op-eds didn’t disclose financial incentives

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Eli Clifton Source Link Over four years, Ret. Air Force General Charles “Chuck” Wald published a series of op-eds with Reuters, NBC News, T...

Russia And Ukraine Are Headed For A Winter (Nuclear?) War Of Hell

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Daniel Davis Source Link Ahead of a looming winter battle in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday defiantly claimed that his ...

Chechen Pride Or Kremlin Ambitions? Tracking Kadyrov's Long Game

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Cameron Manley Source Link In a war where most Russian military commanders choose to remain in the shadows, and regular soldiers are prohibi...

Managed Competition: A U.S. Grand Strategy for a Multipolar World

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George Beebe Source Link Introduction Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has greatly narrowed Russia’s strategic playing field by alienati...

Xi Jinping: An Echo of Saddam?

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Robert D. Kaplan Source Link Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power at the recent Communist Party congress in Beijing was accomplished with a S...

Experts react: Rishi Sunak makes history as newest UK prime minister. Can he calm a country in chaos?

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Source Link His moment has arrived. Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor of the exchequer, was tapped as the United Kingdom’s newest prime min...

NATO Force Planning and the Impact of the Ukraine War

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Anthony H. Cordesman Source Link There is no way as yet to know how the war in Ukraine will end, or even whether it will end or linger on at...

The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework: More Steps Needed to Repair Trust in Data Flows

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Caitlin Chin Source Link The new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) reads as a good faith effort to maintain transatlantic data fl...

China’s Xi ‘More Powerful Than Mao,’ Seen Abandoning Market Reforms – Analysis

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Hsia Hsiao-hwa, Gu Ting and Wang Yun Source Link Ruling Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s next five years will likely see more ha...

Biden’s National Security Strategy: America’s Search For Order In The Middle East – OpEd

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James Ryan Source Link ( FPRI ) — President Joe Biden’s National Security Strategy (NSS) addresses two trends in America’s Middle East pol...

Xi’s Conflict-Prone China

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STEPHEN S. ROACH Source Link NEW HAVEN – China’s 20th Party Congress has come and gone. Despite all the fanfare and media hype, it was a hol...

China’s Fiscal Challenges

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YU YONGDING Source Link BEIJING – When China’s GDP growth is below target, successive governments have relied on the same tool: government s...

China’s Coming Clash with Economic Reality

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JIM O'NEILL Source Link LONDON – Judging by the reporting from the Communist Party of China’s 20th National Congress, Xi Jinping, newly ...

Win, Lose, or Draw, the Wagner Group Benefits From the War in Ukraine

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Christopher Faulkner, Marcel Plichta Source Link Between conscription, mobilization, and coercion, Vladimir Putin is putting more men under ...

Northeast Asia’s Changing Security Environment

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Bolor Lkhaajav Source Link The security of Northeast Asia is threatened by the equivocal actions of regional actors. Russia’s invasion of Uk...

Can the Social Media and Poster Campaign Against Xi Jinping Make a Difference?

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Chauncey Jung Source Link On October 13, just three days before the opening of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (C...

Can Sunak Save Britain? Political Chaos and the Long Shadow of Brexit

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Bronwen Maddox Source Link Yesterday, when Rishi Sunak stood in front of the portable lectern outside No. 10 Downing Street to make his firs...

Improving US Relations Is Not a Priority for China

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Patrick M. Cronin Source Link In light of the direction Xi Jinping laid out during the Chinese Communist Party's 20th National Congress,...
28 October 2022

General Winter Knocks at the Door

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Lawrence Freedman Source Link Winters loom large in the military history of Russia and Ukraine, famously when they were fighting together as...

Chinese Moves Complicate India-Bangladesh Dispute Over Teesta

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Snigdhendu Bhattacharya Source Link In the second week of October, a month after Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned from New D...

Russia’s War in Ukraine and Its Impact on Central Asia

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Yunis Sharifli, Chia-Lin Kao , and Bermet Derbishova Source Link The Russia-Ukraine war created a great deal of geopolitical turbulence and ...

Looking for Lies An Exploratory Analysis for Automated Detection of Deception

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Marek N. Posard, Christian Johnson, Julia L. Melin Source Link Security clearance investigations are onerous for both the applicants and inv...

Weaponizing Trade

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William Alan Reinsch Source Link Using trade as a weapon is not new. Countries have been embargoing each other or selectively cutting off im...

Why Sanctions Can’t Stop Russia and Iran

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Ahmed S. Cheema Source Link Economic sanctions and financial penalties form an integral part of statecraft, whether they are used to pursue ...

The US isn’t at war with Russia, technically – but its support for Ukraine offers a classic case of a proxy war

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Monica Duffy Toft Source Link The United States and European countries continue to pledge their support to Ukraine as Russia’s invasion drag...