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In a new report from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Ash Carter, PhD, Belfer Center director, MIT Innovation Fellow and former US defense secretary, outlines lessons learned from the US campaign against ISIS. “Today, Iraqi and coalition soldiers—backed by an American force the nest the world has ever known— have all but routed ISIS in two of its most important former strongholds: Raqqa and Mosul,” his report summary reads. “How America, together with her friends and allies, turned the tide against a common enemy is a story of good fortune, critical leadership decisions, and skill and bravery on the part of young men and women in uniform.”

In a new report published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Aerospace Security Project  entitled “Escalation and Deterrence in the Second Space Age,” co-authors Todd Harrison, CSIS Aerospace Security Project director, Zack Cooper, CSIS senior fellow for Asian security, Kaitlyn Johnson, CSIS International Security Program manager and research associate, and Thomas Roberts, CSIS Aerospace Security Program coordinator and research assistant, “discuss the evolution of space as a contested domain, the changing threats to U.S. space systems, deterrence theory and its applications to the space domain, and findings from a space crisis exercise administered by CSIS last year,” CSIS writes.