Tag: USA

(USA/Taiwan) A Salami Slice for Taiwan’s Security (Defense One)

Andrew Latham In recent years, “incremental slicing” or “salami-slice” tactics have become an increasingly prominent feature of great power relations. https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2021/03/salami-slice-taiwans-security/172346/

(USA) Modeling Software Once Led Us to the Precipice of Nuclear War. What Will AI Do? (Defense One)

Steve Blank The Pentagon must heed the lessons of RYAN and Able Archer amid its artificial-intelligence aspirations. https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2021/03/modeling-software-once-led-us-precipice-nuclear-war-what-will-ai-do/172329/

(USA) MDA says Alaska-based missile defense radar will be operational in 2021 (Defense News)

Jen Judson Despite previously reported delays from the Government Accountability Office and the Missile Defense Agency, a key U.S. Air Force radar designed to detect ballistic missile threats appears...

(USA) 8 ideas for successful technology convergence (Defense News)

Vince Vlasho Convergence. That one word is key to understanding critical technology trends for the U.S. military in the coming years. https://www.c4isrnet.com/opinion/2021/03/02/8-ideas-for-successful-technology-convergence/

(USA) BAE wins Air Force electronic warfare contract (Defense News)

Mark Pomerleau BAE Systems secured a $58 million contract to begin low-rate initial production of an electronic warfare system for F-15s to protect pilots from...

(USA/Europe) Pentagon pushes to partake in EU military mobility planning (Defense News)

Sebastian Sprenger U.S. defense officials want to be admitted to an internal European Union project aimed at easing the flow of military forces across the...

(USA) How should the next National Defense Strategy balance terrorism, rogue regimes, and great-power competition? (Atlantic Council)

Matthew R. Crouch, Ronald C. Fairbanks During the Trump administration, the focus and strategy of US defense policy shifted from countering terrorism to gearing up for...

(USA/Carribean) CARICOM chairman: It’s time for a ‘reset’ in US-Caribbean relations (Atlantic Council)

Larry Luxner The world’s inequitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is threatening the Caribbean’s economic recovery, and climate change is quickly becoming an “existential threat” to...

(USA/ROK) Report release: The future of the US-ROK alliance (Atlantic Council)

Barry Pavel, Miyeon Oh, Robert Dohner, Alexander Vershbow, Markus Garlauskas, Todd Rosenblum As the 2020s open with a global pandemic, an enduring North Korean threat, and the continued rise of...

(USA/ROK) Advancing US-ROK cooperation on nuclear energy (Atlantic Council)

Stephen S. Greene The United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) are longstanding civil nuclear partners. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/advancing-us-rok-cooperation-on-nuclear-energy/

(USA) The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election (Atlantic Council)

On January 6, 2021, an armed mob stormed the US Capitol to prevent the certification of what they claimed was a “fraudulent election.” Many...

(USA/Russia) Three big takeaways from Biden’s first Russia sanctions (Atlantic Council)

Brian O’Toole, Daniel Fried After weeks of speculation, we now know how the Biden administration will sanction Russia in direct response to the poisoning, sentencing, and detention of...

(USA) During the pandemic, ‘lost’ education jobs aren’t what they seem (Brookings)

Chad Aldeman Throughout 2020, media accounts were filled with stories about private sector job losses, layoffs, and bankruptcies. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), private sector...

(USA/China) 10 reasons the US and China should cooperate now to stop the pandemic (Brookings)

Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen If the history of the COVID-19 pandemic were written today, the narrative would not be dominated by the global common cause that...

(USA) How a national network of local leaders is centering racial equity in neighborhood revitalization (Brookings)

Michelle Matthews https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/03/02/how-a-national-network-of-local-leaders-is-centering-racial-equity-in-neighborhood-revitalization/

(USA/Global Security Challenges) Global security challenges and strategy (Brookings)

Thomas Wright https://www.brookings.edu/testimonies/global-security-challenges-and-strategy/