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THE MAKERS OF ANCIENT STRATEGY

8/25/2019

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 4 intel challenges from a former Central Command leader
(C4ISRNET) Intelligence organizations have increased their ability to collect intelligence in recent years, but significant work remains before that intelligence is useful for U.S. Central Command and the war fighter. 
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SOUTH KOREA ENDS COALITION PARTNERSHIP WITH JAPAN:  HOW CHINA AND NORTH KOREA WIN

8/23/2019

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South Korea’s decision to scrap a key intelligence-sharing pact with Japan has far-reaching geopolitical implications and shows the two neighbours are still struggling to come to terms with a bloody history. Here are five things to know about the decision. – Agence France–Presse
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ROBERT KAPLAN'S ROCKIES SHAPE THE US ABROAD & THUCYDIDES AND THE TALIBAN

8/22/2019

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U.S.-Taliban Negotiations: How to Avoid Rushing to Failure 
By James Dobbins, Robert P. Finn, Ronald E. Neumann, William Wood, John Negroponte, Earl Anthony Wayne, Ryan Crocker, James Cunningham & Hugo Llorens, Atlantic Council: "A few critical guard rails stand out in order to avoid the risk of Afghanistan becoming a new center of terrorism harboring groups dedicated to attacking the United States and to avoid betraying our own values by depriving Afghans of the chance to determine their own future."

Great Power Competition and Relative Advantage:
Lessons from Thucydides for U.S. Strategic Thinkers

By Carsten Schmiedl, Small Wars Journal: "What are the limits of a security strategy predicated on relative advantage, and what can be done to mitigate them?"
 As U.S. outlines draft Taliban deal, Pentagon chief provides few details
(Reuters) U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Wednesday he would limit his comments on talks between the United States and Taliban as negotiations were still ongoing “in some ways,” even as details of a draft deal have been publicly announced by President Donald Trump and a senior U.S. diplomat. 
Taliban Fragmentation: A Figment of Your Imagination? by Andrew Watkins
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We must understand both the can-do spirit of America and the restraints imposed by the realities of a harsh landscape that won’t yield to mere optimism. Read More »
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NEW LEADERSHIP FOR MISSILE DEFENSE & US DRIVES NAIL IN RUSSIAN COFFIN (INF TREATY)

8/21/2019

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What Happens After the INF Treaty?
By John Woodworth, Defense One: "Deterrence and arms control have long shaped U.S. national security policy. A negotiator of the 1987 agreement asks: What now?"
Dynetics, Raytheon producing glide bodies for hypersonic weapon prototypes
(UPI) Raytheon said Tuesday it will work to enhance the U.S. Army's hypersonic weapon glide body, days after Dynetics was awarded a contract to build at least 20 common missile bodies. 

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New U.S. Missile Defense Agency Boss Reveals His Goals
By Jen Judson, Defense News: "The new director will have to guide the agency through a series of major decisions in the coming years —from refining its approach to a global, layered missile defense, to tackling advanced threats like hypersonic missiles, upgrading homeland defense to protect against, ballistic missiles, to designing, developing and initiating a space-based sensor layer, just to name a few."
U.S. Conducts 1st Post-INF Ground Launched Tomahawk Test
By Oriana Pawlyk, Military.com: "The Pentagon says it has successfully tested a new ground-launched cruise missile just weeks after the U.S. severed the decades-old Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, known as the INF."
The Army is nearing a decision on who will build its Lower-Tier Air-and-Missile Defense Sensor, or LTAMDS, which will provide the sensing capability for the future Integrated Air-and-Missile Defense System the service is developing. – Defense News

Russia and China accused the United States on Tuesday of stoking military tensions by testing a ground-launched cruise missile, but the foreign ministry in Moscow said it would not be drawn into an arms race. – Reuters
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A pair of recent missile tests – by Russia in near Arkhangelsk and by the U.S. off the coast of California – indicate the race among nations to create a wide range of capabilities is speeding up, a missile defense expert told USNI News. – USNI News
For the past few weeks an innocent-looking white executive jet has been taking off from the Al Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi, cruising for hours in the airspace above the Persian Gulf. […]This is not an ordinary executive jet, but an advanced surveillance aircraft owned by the United Arab Emirates, whose purpose is to gather electronic intelligence – and one of its targets is Iran. – Haaretz
IRAN:
Iran Unveils New Missile Defense System

From Al-Monitor: "Marking Defense Industry Day, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani unveiled a new defense missile system and talked about the conflict between Iran and the United States."
Martin Faga writes: The competing U.S. launch providers offer the Air Force a spectacular choice of innovation: new rocket engines and motors; a wide range of rocket sizes; futuristic, reusable, liquid-fueled rockets; and elegantly simple, one-time, solid-fuel rockets — all at significantly lower prices than today. This can be a procurement success story that will capstone the Air Force’s magnificent, 16-year record of 115 successful launches of mission-critical national security satellites. – Defense News
Nuclear gravity bomb and warhead upgrades face new delays
(Defense News) The United States’ B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb may come in as much as 18 months late, with the W88 submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead facing a shorter delay, a top National Nuclear Security Administration official confirmed Wednesday.
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