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“Build Back Better” was Joe Biden’s campaign slogan. How different is that, really, from “Make America Great Again”? Both BBB and MAGA suggest the need for restoration, for reversing deterioration and decline, for fixing what’s broken.
In foreign and national security policy, President Trump following eight years of President Obama’s unwillingness to bolster the credibility of American power against America’s enemies achieved some significant successes. He also suffered some significant failures. In other areas, he made incremental progress which his successor can advance if he sees his task as building his own presidency rather than building back the Obama White House.
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How to Respond to Russia’s SolarWinds Cyberattack
How to Respond to Russia’s SolarWinds Cyberattack Sunday, 20 December, 2020 - 05:15 Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University s School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. His latest book is American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump. A A When Chinese hackers breached the US Office of Personnel Management in 2014, scooping up the sensitive personal data of Americans holding government security clearances, the consensus among experts was that the intrusion was extremely damaging, but not out of bounds. “This is not ‘shame on China,’ ” explained Michael Hayden, the former head of the National Security Agency. “This is ‘shame on us’ for not protecting that kind of information.”
Former CIA Chief of Station Dan Hoffman says ‘we still don’t know’ how much information Russians accessed during the attack.
The recently discovered massive cyberattack on U.S. government and industry computer networks by a foreign adversary isn’t the first nor will it be the last such hostile action. While the Trump administration has strengthened U.S. defenses and revved up America’s cyber offense, it’s clear that the incoming Biden administration will need to do a lot more because the attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians who launched the cyberattack, carried out by embedding malware into several U.S. government agencies and businesses.