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QATAR – How the Gulf crisis spurred Qatar to expand its military (Alex Gatopoulos, Al Jazeera)

Qatar has embarked on one of the most ambitious armament programmes seen in the Middle East in recent times. Its armed forces are growing...

GCC SUMMIT – Saudi FM: Full ties restored between Qatar and blockading nations (Al Jazeera)

Full relations would resume between Qatar and the four nations that had been boycotting it for the past three and a half years, Saudi Arabia’s...

USA/RUSSIA/HACKING/INTELLIGENCE – FBI, CISA, ODNI and NSA blames Russia for SolarWinds hack (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/113071/hacking/us-blames-russia-solarwinds-hack.html

USA/DOD – Two-Thirds of DOD’s Major IT Projects Are Behind Schedule, GAO Found (Mila Jasper, Defense One)

Defense officials say lack of talent is slowing the adoption of cybersecurity best practices. https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/01/two-thirds-dods-major-it-projects-are-behind-schedule-gao-found/171169/

USA – After COVID, What Should American Foreign Policy Do? (William Inboden, Defense One)

The pandemic reminds us that American leadership can determine whether the arc of history bends toward something better or something worse. https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2021/01/world-covid-made-what-should-american-foreign-policy-do/171162/

USA/CYBERSPACE – Everybody Spies in Cyberspace. The U.S. Must Plan Accordingly (Amy Zegart, Defense One)

Because all countries engage in espionage, intrusions like Russia’s latest data hack are devilishly hard to deter. https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2021/01/everybody-spies-cyberspace-us-must-plan-accordingly/171112/

PANDEMIC – The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb (Zeynep Tufekci, Defense One)

There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger. https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2021/01/mutated-virus-ticking-time-bomb/171115/

ISRAEL/INDIA/MRSAM – Israel and India test MRSAM air defense system (Seth J. Frantzman, Defense News)

Israel Aerospace Industries and the Indian government’s Defence Research and Development Organisation conducted a successful test of the MRSAM, a medium-range surface-to-air missile system. https://www.defensenews.com/training-sim/2021/01/05/israel-and-india-test-of-mrsam-air-defense-system/

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