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Afghanistan – How the Taliban did it: Inside the ‘operational art’ of its military victory (Atlantic Council)

Benjamin Jensen The Taliban are in Kabul and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has left the country. How exactly did the militant group do it? Understanding how the...

Cybersecurity – US FINRA warns US brokerage firms and brokers of ongoing phishing attacks (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The US FINRA warns US brokerage firms and brokers of an ongoing phishing campaign impersonating its representatives to steal sensitive info US FINRA warns brokers of ongoing...

Cybersecurity – Threat actor claims to be selling data of more than 100 million T-Mobile customers (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini T-Mobile is investigating a possible data breach after a threat actor published a post on a forum claiming to be selling the personal data...

USA/China – US–China rivalry needs more clarity and less polarity (East Asia Forum)

John Wright, US Air Force A daily barrage of US–China military alarms fill inboxes and news feeds. While many of these reports genuinely attempt to...

USA – Science-based increase in SNAP benefits should result in a healthier citizenry (Brookings)

Robert Greenstein The Agriculture Department’s announcement that it is revising the food package on which benefit levels in the SNAP program (formerly known as food...

Global – Will COVID-19 mark the end of the old international order? (Brookings)

Thomas Wright and David Dollar The COVID-19 pandemic has been the greatest shock to the international order in decades, and unlike previous shocks, major powers like the...

Africa – Digital technology and African smallholder agriculture: Implications for public policy (Brookings)

Aloysius Uche Ordu, Larry Cooley, and Lesly Goh COVID-19 has exacerbated challenges to Africa’s food and agriculture sector and to its millions of smallholder farmers. At the...

Afghanistan/Central Asia – The Afghan Threat to Central Asia (Valdai Discussion Club)

Khudoberdi Kholiknazar Many experts on Afghanistan argue that without the permission of the Taliban, such extremist and terrorist groups will not violate the borders of the CIS member...

Global – From Proxy Wars to Proxy Diplomacy (Valdai Discussion Club)

Timofei Bordachev The beginning of August was marked by two events that, in the absence of their fundamental significance for the global agenda, are essential...

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