UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS: LESSONS FOR UKRAINE AND NATO - Throughout Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian forces have proven highly adaptive and innovative in their use of emerging technologies and concepts on the battlefield. Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) especially have been essential in Ukraine’s ba...

HARNESSING ALLIED SPACE CAPABILITIES - Hosted by the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and its Forward Defense program, this event featured the launch of a paper series, produced in partnership with Thales, which explores how the United States can better work with its allies and partners...

IDEAS TO IMPLEMENTATION: PRIORITIES FOR NATO’S VILNIUS SUMMIT - More than a year after Russia’s brutal, illegal, and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the transatlantic community remains at a critical juncture. Looking towards the Vilnius Summit in July 2023, NATO must urgently deliver on its reaff...

TECH RACE WITH CHINA: TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY - The United States has been the world’s technology leader since the end of World War II, and its innovation edge has provided substantial economic, geopolitical, and military advantages for decades. As we enter a contested period of great-pow...

ASIA’S RESPONSE TO US-CHINA TENSIONS AND COVID-19: A CONVERSATION WITH SINGAPORE’S PRIME MINISTER LEE HSIEN LOONG AND DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN - In this edition of Atlantic Council Front Page (#ACFrontPage), Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of the Republic of Singapore joined a conversation with master ...

COMBATING FOOD INSECURITY AND MALNUTRITION: A NATIONAL SECURITY IMPERATIVE - Please join the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, in partnership with the Eleanor Crook Foundation and in coordination with General James L. Jones, on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, at 10 a.m. ET for a conversati...

INTEGRATING DEFENSE CAPABILITIES WITH ALLIES - The US military procurement bureaucracy tends to seek domestic sources of aircraft, ships, ground vehicles, and missile systems, and often then export those systems to allies and partners. This tendency predisposes security cooperation to be a one-wa...

A BACK-TO-BUSINESS BIRTHDAY: PRIORITIES FOR THE 2024 NATO SUMMIT IN WASHINGTON - As NATO accelerates preparations for its 75th Anniversary Summit taking place in Washington this July, the transatlantic alliance will have much to celebrate. The accession of Finland and Sweden has added two highly-...

COMMANDING THE ALLIANCE: PERSPECTIVES FROM SACEURS
Today’s global security landscape is the most volatile and contested it has been since the end of the Cold War. Deepening cooperation between the “axis of aggressors” threatens the shared values of democracy and peace on which the Alliance was fo...

US-LATVIA RESILIENCE CONFERENCE - Join the Atlantic Council and Center for East European Policy Studies for the US-Latvia Resilience Conference at Atlantic Council headquarters.

The current period of heightened geopolitical uncertainty has been defined by shifting power dynamics, ongoing conflic...

BOOK TALK: CHINA’S MIDDLE EAST MATH - Join the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative for a discussion with Nonresident Senior Fellow and China-MENA expert Jonathan Fulton about his new book, Building the Belt and Road Initiative in the Arab World: China’s Middle East math.
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