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Michèle Flournoy interviewed in DefAero Report Daily podcast, “Flournoy on Keeping DoD’s Competitive Edge”

"On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Michèle Flournoy, the former undersecretary of defense for policy who is the co-founder of the WestExec Advisors consultancy, discusses her article in the May/June 2021 issue of Foreign Affairs — 'America’s Military Risks Losing Its Edge: How to Transform the Pentagon for a Competitive Era' — with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian…" Listen to the full episode here: Full Episode

2021-07-20T19:03:41-04:00May 17, 2021|Cybersecurity & Defense|
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Miriam Vogel quoted in The Financial Times article, “Silicon Valley Reboots Its Relationship With the US Military”

"Tech groups Microsoft and Amazon have taken a similar stand on the controversial software, after pressure from employees. They said they would refuse to sell it to police forces and asked Congress to regulate the emerging technology… "'I see these battle lines being drawn, where companies are saying in their mission statements what [policies] they want to be aligned with,' says Miriam Vogel, chief executive of EqualAI, a non-profit focused on removing unconscious bias from artificial intelligence…" Read the full article [...]

2021-07-20T19:08:39-04:00May 16, 2021|Cybersecurity & Defense|
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Dennis Ross quoted in The New York Times article, “Violence Shakes Trump’s Boast of ‘New Middle East’”

"Dennis Ross, a former Middle East peace negotiator who served under three presidents, called the accords an important step for the region, but said the violence in Israel’s cities and Gaza illustrated how 'the Palestinian issue can still cast a cloud' over Israel’s relations with its Arab neighbors. "'The notion that this was "peace in our time" obviously ignored the one existential conflict in the region. It wasn’t between Israel and the Arab states,' Mr. Ross said…" Read the full article [...]

2021-07-20T19:05:34-04:00May 15, 2021|Geopolitical Perspectives|
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Dennis Ross interviewed in The Guardian podcast, “What Is Biden’s Policy in the Middle East?: Politics Weekly Extra”

"Jonathan Freedland asks ambassador Dennis Ross, the special envoy to the Middle East under Bill Clinton, who worked with several administrations to secure a peace deal in the region. He recently featured in a documentary, The Human Factor, about US involvement in talks between Arab and Israeli leaders…" Listen to the full episode here: Full Episode

2021-07-20T18:47:57-04:00May 14, 2021|Geopolitical Perspectives|
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Dennis Ross quoted in The Washington Post article, “Biden Wants to Avoid Another Israeli-Palestinian War. It Will Be Even Harder This Time.”

"As veteran Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross recently told me, Hamas has 'an opportunity to upstage' Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas by firing rockets at Jerusalem, becoming 'the symbol of resistance' among Palestinians. But 'with more than 360,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem,' Ross notes, 'firing rockets at the city has as much of a chance to kill Palestinians as anyone, so we are again reminded that Hamas is not about Palestinian well-being but leading resistance regardless of the cost to Palestinians and [...]

2021-07-20T19:00:45-04:00May 13, 2021|Geopolitical Perspectives|
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Nick Zimmerman featured in IREE event, “The Future of the Brazil – USA Relationship in the Biden Government”

"To discuss this topic, we have participants Rubens Barbosa, Former Ambassador to the U.S. and President of the Institute of International Relations and Foreign Trade (IRICE); Nicholas Zimmerman, Former Director of the National Security Council of the White House for Brazilian Affairs and from the Southern Cone; Fernanda Magnotta, Senior Fellow of CEBRI - Núcleo EUA; Guy Mentel, Executive Director of Global Americans; and Walfrido Warde, President of IREE…" Watch the full event here: Full Event

2021-07-20T19:11:34-04:00May 12, 2021|Geopolitical Perspectives|
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Lincoln Bloomfield writes in 1945: “Questioning Assumptions on Iran: Five Ways Team Biden Can Deal from Strength”

"As the US is recommitting to upholding a rules-based international order, Iran daily expresses its revolutionary raison d’etre by destabilizing actions that serially target American interests. With or without the JCPOA, President Biden needs a strategy to address these non-nuclear concerns, one that will find favor on both sides of the political aisle and unite rather than divide our allies. However the current talks turn out, there are ways that the US and allies can stand for shared values and exert [...]

2021-07-20T18:52:02-04:00May 12, 2021|Geopolitical Perspectives|
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Jim Jeffrey quoted in The Wall Street Journal article, “Biden Faces Russian Test Over Aid in Syria”

"The U.N.’s use of border crossings dates to 2014 when the Security Council approved a plan to send aid to Syrians through four crossings, with Turkey, Iraq and Jordan, to reach civilians on both sides of the battle lines. Under Russian pressure, the Security Council later shrank the number of crossings the U.N. is authorized to use to one: Bab al-Hawa. In July 2020, the Trump administration secured a one-year extension for U.N. use of the crossing. "'Russia has been leveraging [...]

2021-07-20T18:59:04-04:00May 11, 2021|Geopolitical Perspectives|
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