Tag: USA

(USA/Saudi Arabia) United States and Saudi Arabia: Recalculating their Route (INSS)

Eldad Shavit, Yoel Guzansky President Biden has kept his election promise and published a report by the United States intelligence community stating that Saudi Crown Prince...
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(USA) CISA emergency directive urges to fix Microsoft Exchange zero-days (Security Affairs)

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an emergency directive related to recently fixed Microsoft Exchange zero-days. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/115278/security/cisa-microsoft-exchange-zero-days.html
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(USA/China) Building a China Strategy Starts by Answering These Questions (Defense One)

MIKE DANA and LT. COL. MATTHEW CROUCH The book Chinese Characteristics makes many insightful and important observations. https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2021/03/building-china-strategy-starts-answering-these-questions/172440/
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(USA) D.C. Guard Commander Says ‘Unusual’ Restrictions Prevented Swift Response To Capitol Riot (Defense One)

Katie Bo Williams “Unusual” restrictions placed on the commander of the D.C. National Guard prevented him from responding to the besieged Capitol on Jan. 6...
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(USA) Trump Is Gone, but Democracy Is in Trouble (The Atlantic, Defense One)

Yascha Mounk After November 3, I allowed myself to dream that the battered troops of democracy would regain their courage and go on the offensive. https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2021/03/trump-gone-democracy-trouble/172418/
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(USA) Boycott the Olympics? Cancel the Saudis? How Woke Can Biden Really Get? (Defense One)

Kevin Baron Boycott the Olympics? Cancel the Saudis? Don’t even fire back at Iran-backed militias who wound U.S. troops and kill personnel? How woke should President Joe...
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(USA) Biden’s first budget should reduce nuclear excess (Defense News)

Kingston Reif As the Biden administration begins crafting its defense budget submission for fiscal 2022, the debate about how it should handle the U.S. nuclear arsenal is...
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(USA) US Army’s unmanned aircraft rodeo firms up requirements for Shadow replacement (Defense News)

Jen Judson The U.S. Army is putting the finishing touches on its requirements for a replacement for its Shadow unmanned aircraft system as it conducts a week-long rodeo...
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(USA) Biden national security guidance calls to increase diplomacy, downplay nukes, end Afghanistan conflict (Defense News)

Aaron Mehta In an “interim” security strategy document released Wednesday afternoon, the White House emphasized that the Biden administration views diplomacy as its first tool for national...
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(USA) Surface ship readiness continues to struggle, US Navy inspections show (Defense News)

David B. Larter The U.S. Navy’s surface fleet continues to struggle to keep its ships adequately maintained, according to the Board of Inspection and Survey, an entity...
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(USA) Space Force chief says he’s working on a declassification strategy, but offers scant details (Defense News)

Nathan Strout The head of the U.S. Space Force said the nascent service is developing a declassification strategy for space, but he could not share...
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(USA) Lawmakers propose check on Biden’s war powers (Defense News)

Joe Gould A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday to repeal the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for the use of military force in the...
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(USA/China) Why Biden’s new China czar requires comprehensive policy authorities (Defense News)

Lt. Col. Matthew R. Crouch and Christopher P. Mulder The Biden administration’s national security team is facing a series of complex and interrelated challenges. The common denominator...
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(USA) Defense Intelligence Agency awards IT services contract worth up to $12.6 billion (Defense News)

Andrew Eversden  The Defense Intelligence Agency announced a contract worth up to $12.6 billion for a broad range of IT services, naming 144 vendors that...
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(USA) The US Military and the Capitol Mob (Project-Syndicate)

CHARLES C. KRULAK The disproportionate share of insurrectionists at the US Capitol with a military background are not representative of the armed forces as a...
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(USA) Texas power crisis shows need to build a clean, resilient grid (Stem, WEF)

John Carrington The recent power outage in Texas was caused by extreme weather freezing the state's electric and gas systems. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/what-can-texas-power-crisis-show-us-about-building-more-resilient-grid-america/
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