Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners
Quotes of the Day:
"Asymmetric actions have come into widespread use, enabling the nullification of an enemy's advantages in armed conflict."
- Valery Gerasimov, The value of science is in foresight
"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
- Ernest Hemingway
“We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.”
- Sheryl Sandberg
1. Opinion | The Pentagon’s ‘deterrence’ strategy ignores hard-earned lessons about the balance of power
2. Milley privately blames State Department for botched Afghanistan evacuation
3. ‘Speed equals safety’: Inside the Pentagon’s controversial decision to leave Bagram early
4. Milley says resigning would be 'incredible act of political defiance,' under Cotton pressure
5. Biden Paints Himself Into a Corner on the Iran Nuclear Deal
6. Army Shifting Training Priorities, Investments for Multi-Domain Ops
7. How Could the U.S. Deter Military Conflict in the Taiwan Strait?
8. Covert Operations Fail More Often than Not, so Why Do Leaders Order Them? (book review)
9. Robert Gates: How civics education became a national security issue
10. #Reviewing The Character Gap
11. Book Launch: “Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran, and the Rise of Irregular Warfare" with Seth Jones
12. What you should know about ‘Bitskrieg: The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare’
13. How the U.S. Debt Ceiling Battle Threatens the Global Economy
14. The Timing of Terrorism: The Obsessions with Dates
15. Adapting Intelligence to the New Afghanistan
16. China’s factory activity in shock slowdown as energy crisis hits home
17. America’s Revolving-Door Politics Behind The Fall Of US-Sino Ties – Analysis
18. The west is the author of its own weakness
19. Defense Business Board Relaunches After Pentagon Review
20. Readout of U.S. - PRC Defense Policy Coordination Talks
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