February 14, 2021
By Raul DIEGO
Less than a month away from the one-year anniversary of the pandemic’s official declaration, policy wonks at the Atlantic Council together with former and current government officials are dissecting the “lessons” of the Covid-19 epidemic to advise the Biden administration on the steps to take in order to avert the next disaster.
Following a report by the Atlantic Council’s “Forward Defense” program housed within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security published in October, a panel comprised of the report’s author Franklin D. Kramer and others, including former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Jane Holl Lute and Jaclyn Levy, Director of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), discussed Kramer’s “key findings” and how these should influence White House policy moving forward.
Innovating the business model of defense
Wed, Feb 10, 2021 2:00 PM
The rise of China is resetting the Pentagon’s priorities and approach to sustaining military competitive advantages. Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, Maxar CEO Dan Jablonsky, Atlantic Council Nonresident Senior Fellow Dr. Melissa Flagg, and NDIA Chairman MajGen Arnold Punaro join us for a Captains of Industry discussion on how the Department of Defense can adapt acquisition practices to improve its access to the US innovation base.
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How the US can regain the advantage in its next National Defense Strategy
Signaling a major leap forward for national defense in the digital age, the Air Force flew with artificial intelligence as a working aircrew member onboard a military aircraft for the first time. USAF/Cover-Images.com/Reuters
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This article was originally published by The National Interest and has been reprinted with their permission.
To seize the advantage, the next US National Defense Strategy (NDS) needs a paradigm adjustment, not a shift.
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Crouch, Fairbanks, and Mulder in The National Interest: Above politics: the US military will always defend the constitution Op-Ed
The American people can have confidence that their servicemen and women will continue to serve regardless of who is president, as has been the case since Washington relinquished the presidency to Adams, with a total and unflagging commitment to the Constitution of the United States.
Over the past six months a disturbing trend emerged in our awareness, we noticed people, some of whom we know personally, suggesting that the military might not support the transition of power from one administration to the next. As the events of the past year unfolded, progressing to the disturbing scene at the U.S. Capitol on the 6
Expiring arms control treaty with Russia presents early challenge for Biden President reportedly seeking a five-year extension Follow Us
Question of the Day In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Intercontinental ballistic missiles are launched by the Vladimir Monomakh nuclear submarine of the Russian navy from the Sera of Okhotsk, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. The submarine . more > By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times - Thursday, January 21, 2021
One of President Biden’s first foreign policy tests will be brokering an extension of a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia that expires in just two weeks.