INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AND INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE REFORM - The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) is undertaking a number of initiatives to adjust the Committee’s work away from the counterterrorism focus of the last twenty years and toward strategic collection and analysis ...

HOW CAN WE DETER CHINA IN THE 2020S? A CONVERSATION WITH MICHÈLE FLOURNOY - While the United States has long planned to prevent a Sino-Taiwanese war, President Xi Jinping has made abundantly clear that “reunifying” Taiwan with China is a legacy goal. As Beijing rapidly modernizes its military, Ch...

A UNIFIED RESPONSE TO THE ENERGY CRISIS: A FIRESIDE CHAT WITH H.E. VÁCLAV BARTUŠKA, CZECH AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR ENERGY SECURITY - Russia continues attacking Europe’s energy security as part of its war against Ukraine. To negate Russia’s energy leverage, the continent must ensure its energy secu...

A FIRESIDE CHAT WITH DITTE JUUL JØRGENSEN, DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR ENERGY AT THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION - The European Union has made great strides in securing alternative gas imports, with storage filled to capacity, demand reduction and preparedness measures in place and gas prices falling 70 percent...

A CONVERSATION WITH ITALIAN CHIEF OF DEFENSE ADMIRAL GIUSEPPE CAVO DRAGONE - The Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and Middle East Programs hosted Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Italy’s Chief of Defense, on April 19, 2023, for a conversation assessing Italy’s defense posture in light of Russia’s c...

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...

A CONVERSATION WITH THE HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN GREGORY MEEKS - Just days before the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 and the opening of the seventy-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly, the Atlantic Council hosted Congressman Gregory Meeks, chairman of the United St...

ON BREAKING THINGS: MELDING CYBER AND KINETIC IN CONFLICT - On behalf of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, within the Digital Forensic Research Lab, please join us for a panel discussion on the role of cyber in kinetic conflict on Thursday, April 20, from 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm ET a...

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...

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...

PROTECTING POINT-TO-POINT MESSAGING APPS: UNDERSTANDING TELEGRAM, WECHAT, AND WHATSAPP — Messaging apps are deeply embedded in daily life for more than 3 billion people worldwide as a primary means of communication with friends and family, buying and selling products and services, following the n...

ANALYZING THE PENTAGON’S 2023 CHINA MILITARY POWER REPORT - The Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security are pleased to be hosting a conversation with the Department of Defense’s Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, Ely Ra...

UNDERMINING UKRAINE: HOW RUSSIA WIDENED GLOBAL INFORMATION OPERATIONS IN 2023 - On the morning of February 24, 2022, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine changed the fragile balance of power in Europe. The largest armed conflict on the continent since World War II, Russia’s assault on Ukraine ...

THE SECURE BY DESIGN IMPERATIVE: A ONE-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE - On behalf of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, please join us for a virtual panel discussion about the Secure by Design (SBD) initiative from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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THE SECURE BY DESIGN IMPERATIVE: A ONE-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE - On behalf of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, please join us for a virtual panel discussion about the Secure by Design (SBD) initiative from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

Persistent i...

THE SECURE BY DESIGN IMPERATIVE: A ONE-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE - On behalf of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, please join us for a virtual panel discussion about the Secure by Design (SBD) initiative from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

Persistent i...

THE SECURE BY DESIGN IMPERATIVE: A ONE-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE - On behalf of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, please join us for a virtual panel discussion about the Secure by Design (SBD) initiative from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

Persistent i...

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-...

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...

ALL EYES ON WASHINGTON: WHAT TO EXPECT AT THE 2024 NATO SUMMIT - This year’s NATO Summit taking place in Washington, DC, marks seventy-five years of the world’s strongest military alliance. Heads of state and government descending upon Washington will have much to celebrate. Finland and Sweden’s ...

BOLSTERING TRANSATLANTIC SECURITY AND SOLIDARITY - After a period filled with hope for relative security in Europe and stable relations with Russia, the transatlantic community has been challenged by the outbreak of conventional war on the continent for the first time since World War II. In the f...

UKRAINE’S ADVANCE IN KURSK: WHAT’S NEXT AND IMPLICATIONS - Ukraine has surprised the Russians and the world with a lightning strike, which according to the Financial Times, reportedly enabled them to capture one week into the operation as much as 1000 square kilometers of the Kursk Oblast, with f...

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...

WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE UKRAINIAN CHILDREN KIDNAPPED BY RUSSIA? - Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, international watchdogs and human rights organizations have tracked more than nineteen thousand Ukrainian children illegally abducted by Russia and relocated to Russia, Be...