via @NYTimes GO NAVY! Such amazing photos. Hey ⁦Netflix⁩ and ⁦Disney+⁩ and ⁦Spotify⁩ — can’t we fix this for our submariners? “Day 31 is sometimes the lowest morale day while underway... app downloads expire: Spotify, Netflix, etc.” nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/…

Ukraine needs us, and we need them to win this fight. #NAFOfellas

Ukraine can win, with our help. Without our help, they will lose, and Russia will turn its attention to NATO. That's far more expensive than ten more aid packages.

Russia’s deadly attacks see Ukraine call out a Western double standard wapo.st/4aFmcrd

There’s some real mental gymnastics on display by those downplaying the role of air and missile defense following Iran’s attack.

Israeli AMD assets seem to have performed quite well. Along with aircraft, it appears to have provided significant damage limitation, escalation…

702 may come up for a vote this week! It's hard to overstate how important this authority is for national security, from counter-terrorism to great power competition. It's one of our most powerful--and most regulated--tools, and it needs to keep working.

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Intel Chair Turner: ‘Absolutely true’ that Russian propaganda has infected US Congress thehill.com/homenews/house…

My latest: TikTok’s threat to America is in a category by itself, it must be heavily regulated thehill.com/opinion/455182…

Hat tip to Sweden…. So happy to have you as a NATO ally!

Today Chinese Communist Party controlled spy app TikTok US previewed how it will one day be weaponized against America when they geolocated American cell phones, targeted them with messages demanding they pressure Congress & locking them out of the platform until they used the…

Countries in #LatinAmerica that have joined #China 's #BRI have seen mostly a decline in Economist Intelligence: EIU's Democracy Index score. To read how China's full scope engagement with Latin America can contribute to democratic backsliding, read our latest CSIS report.
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Welcoming Sweden to #NATO ! The alliance is stronger than ever.

GIF 📸 via Henrik Paulsson

Good, serious points made in our Ukraine event today by Seth G. Jones Eliot A Cohen and Mike Vickers. Also North Atlantic Fella Organization, spot the swag….

One of the best parts of my job is working with brilliant women like these two. See their NYT piece on SPACE NUKES. Or, if we do it right, stopping space nukes. CSIS International Security Program Heather Williams CSIS Aerospace Security nytimes.com/2024/02/17/opi…

Alexei Navalny died today. Quietly.
The rest of us need to be loud.

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Progress! There MUST be consequences for attacks on critical infrastructure.

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A pair of recent cyberattacks demonstrate how adversaries are changing their strategies—and why the U.S. needs to rethink its approach, writes Emily Harding in this week’s Foreign Policy Essay. lawfaremedia.org/article/the-un…

War is by its nature disruptive—to life, business & society.

CSIS International Security Program's Emily Harding writes, 'the longer the war, the greater the economic hit. Israel’s tech sector must again prove resilient enough to recover & reengage with the global economy.' cs.is/49f3jdE

The US is thinking about cyber attacks like natural disasters, not hostile attacks by a foreign power. Remember when a terrorist entity messed with water infrastructure? No? It happened.

The United States Needs a New Way to Think About Cyber | Lawfare (lawfaremedia.org)

'Intelligence professionals are facing a shift: extreme acceleration in the availability and impact of technology combined with great power competition is causing a revolution in the business of intelligence.'

More from Julia Dickson and Emily Harding: csis.org/analysis/dia-d…

My latest: when all the old ideas have been tried and failed, it’s time for something completely different. Newsweek Kathleen J. McInnis 🌻 USAID
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