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JEWISH AGENTS IN IRAN KILL MASARI:  IRANIAN MULLAH'S & AL-QAEDA

11/20/2020

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Will Sudan hand over Islamists to Egypt?
 During a recent meeting, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the head of Sudan's Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman al-Burhan, discussed the handover of members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood to Cairo.
Failure in Armenian conflict should cause American soul-searching  
Michael Rubin | Washington Examiner
3 intelligence failures from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict need investigating  
Michael Rubin | The National Interest
The Paradox of Precision: Nonstate Actors and Precision-Guided Weapons by Itamar Lifshitz and Ayal Meents
How To Build Upon Recent Progress in the Middle East
The Al-Masri Assassination: Another Iranian Intelligence Failure
By Dr. Ardavan Khoshnood, November 19, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On August 7, 2020, the number 2 figure in al-Qaeda, Abdullah Ahmad Abdullah (known as Abu Muhammad al-Masri), was gunned down in Tehran. Al-Masri’s very presence in Iran exhibited the close relationship Tehran has with the Sunni terrorist organization, and his slaying shows the weakness of Iranian counterintelligence. The regime’s frustration at this intelligence failure will likely be expressed through acts of violence. It will probably reform its counterintelligence community and may ask for assistance in this endeavor from both Russia and China.

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Why Does Israel Execute Distant Enemies and Coddle Close Ones?  by Nave Dromi
The Jewish Press
November 18, 2020

https://www.meforum.org/61783/the-difference-between-assassinations-near-and-far
No, It’s Not Surprising That Abu Muhammad al-Masri Was Living in Iran
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The Islamic Republic and al-Qaeda have a long history of cooperation.
Our So-Called Foreign Policy: China Advice that Biden (Unfortunately) Could Take
Biden and Erdogan: Five Potential Flashpoints in US-Turkish Relations
DoD Needs to Relearn the (Almost) Lost Art of Net Assessment
By Bryan Clark & Dan Patt & Timothy A. Walton, Strategy Bridge: "Tough choices lie ahead for the U.S. Department of Defense. Government relief in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and rising costs to service the federal debt are expected to constrain discretionary spending, including spending on defense. At the same time its budgets are being squeezed, the U.S. military will need to address a peer competitor in China; creative Russian, Iranian, North Korean adversaries; and a potentially unaffordable approach to deterring and waging war."
The Need to Compete on Multiple Battlegrounds:
An Interview with Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster

By Octavian Manea, Small Wars Journal: "Increasingly we are seeing our adversaries attack our will to sustain our foreign policy and our efforts abroad."
Arabs Warn Biden: Do Not Embrace Islamists  by Khaled Abu Toameh 
Jihadi Reactions To The U.S.-Taliban Deal And Afghan Peace Talks
by Cole Bunzel via The Caravan Notebook
WHAT AMERICA FIRST MEANS
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HOW ISRAEL KEEPS ITS MILITARY EDGE OVER ARAB & REGIONAL RIVALS

11/4/2020

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How To Maintain Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge
The US military, election campaigns, and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith on the defense budget
Mackenzie Eaglen | "Defense & Aerospace Report"
Twin crises deepen Gulf states’ policy competition and independence
Karen E. Young | Global Discourse
Sharansky’s journeys  From prison to politics to an exodus from Africa
Why the U.S. Can and Must Win the Race for Hypersonic Weapons
By Dan Gouré, RealClearDefense: “Winning the race to deploy hypersonic weapons will be one of the most important achievements in U.S. national security of the 21st Century."
Great Power Competition Comes Home to America
By Bradley Bowman & Shane Praiswater, Defense One: "Our leaders’ efforts to heal divisions among our fellow citizens are key to national defense."

Offensive Advantage and the Vanity of Ethics
By Kevin Kallmes, Notes on Liberty: “All military historians shake their heads in disappointment at the Maginot Line, which Hitler easily circumvented.” ​
Getting the Fait Accompli Problem Right in U.S. Strategy
By Michael Kofman, War on the Rocks: “The threat of territorial conquest by fait accompli is one of the central problem statements in U.S. defense planning."
Is China Speeding Up Military Modernisation? It May, but Not Yet
By Meia Nouwens, the interpreter: “Brain wave-reading threat detectors can dramatically increase a soldier’s ability to spot danger.” 
 
Why the United States Needs to Rethink Its China Strategy
By Hashim Abid, Wavell Room: "America’s current strategy to prevent China’s rise in Eurasia is failing and needs to be rethought."
Nagorno-Karabakh: The Caucasus Time Machine
By Lev Stesin, November 4, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: No major power has attempted in earnest to mediate the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, and some have actively participated in keeping the situation ablaze. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan have been actively preparing for hostilities, but Armenia finds itself at a political and military disadvantage.

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Making Waves: Militant Maritime Operations Along Africa’s Eastern Coast by Tyler Lycan, Christopher Faulkner, and Austin C. Doctor

Arms Control and Great-Power Politics by Timothy Crawford and Khang Vu
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