Is America prepared for a catastrophic cyber attack?
The National Defense Authorization Act develops a strategic approach to defending the United States.
(January 27, 2021 / JNS) With a little imagination, the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 might have been prevented. Islamist suicide terrorists had used cars, trucks and boats to deliver bombs. Why not planes? The proper authorities could have taken precautions. But they didn’t.
With a little imagination, the pandemic that originated in China in 2019 might not have been so devastating. The Spanish flu killed millions in 1918. Wasn’t a similar outbreak likely within a century or so either due to natural causes, carelessness or mischief? The proper authorities could have stocked adequate supplies of personal protective equipment and formulated plans to mitigate the economic damage that such a health crisis would ignite. But they didn’t.
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Iran’s UN Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi (File photo: AFP) Washington - Elie Youssef Iran has no plans to hold talks with the new US administration and is waiting for President Joe Biden to take the first step to lift sanctions and return to the nuclear agreement, Tehran s UN ambassador told NBC News.
In his first interview since Biden was sworn in last week, Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi announced that Iran has not spoken to the new administration yet.
In 2018, former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed between Iran and international powers to limit Tehran’s nuclear program in return for easing economic sanctions.
Trump s national security failures and successes
Updated on: January 27, 2021 / 6:51 AM / CBS News
In this episode of
Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell interviews Foundation for Defense of Democracies officers John Hannah and David Adesnik. Together, the co-editors have just published a compilation of essays entitled From Trump to Biden: The Way Forward for U.S. National Security. Hannah and Adesnik point out their concerns about where the nation s national security stands today, and highlight some of the Trump administration s national security policy achievements, despite the expectation that the Biden administration may discard just about everything that its predecessor did. Listen to
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The Kremlin has made multiple, strenuous denials: of having a secret chemical-weapons program; of having ordered intelligence agents to poison Navalny; and of the Novichok poisoning of former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England in March 2018. A British woman who accidentally came into contact with the nerve agent died that July.
Navalny spent nearly five months in treatment and recuperation in Germany before flying back on January 17 to Moscow, where he was immediately arrested.
Before being ordered to serve 30 days in pretrial detention, he called on his supporters to take to the streets, which they did a week later, in the largest political protests that Russia has seen in years.