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Amb. Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the United Nations, says missile technology and nuclear weapons development go hand-in-hand during a Sept. 5, 2017, speech on the Iran nuclear deal at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Amb. Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the United Nations, says missile technology and nuclear weapons development go hand-in-hand during a Sept. 5, 2017, speech on the Iran nuclear deal at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. She broaches the topic while discussing UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which  she said deals with the Iran’s “non-nuclear” infractions — including ballistic missile development and testing, despite the capacity for such weapons to carry nuclear warheads.

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In an August 2017 report from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution published as part of its Aegis Series, author Ben Buchanan, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Cybersecurity Project, argues that the US government’s “Nobody But Us” (or NOBUS) approach to signals intelligence — in which communications are designed to be indecipherable by any method that isn’t exclusive to US parties —  is losing effectiveness due to “increasingly sophisticated” enemies. According to Buchanan, the report “outlines the ways in which the United States can and does exploit structural or asymmetric advantages in capability or access to enable NOBUS methods,”  “examines how current trends make NOBUS solutions harder to find and use,” and “articulates some ideas for a potential path forward, though it acknowledges there is no easy answer.”

Full Coverage: Atlantic Council's Herbst on Ukraine, Afghanistan
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Amb. John Herbst, director of the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center and former US ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan, says President Donald Trump’s proposed troop surge won’t turn the tide in Afghanistan and that self-imposed limitations on manpower and funding make a US victory there impossible during an Aug. 29, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the organization’s offices in Washington.

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On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell Helicopter, a Textron company, we discuss United Technologies’ acquisition of Rockwell Collins, North Korea’s latest suspected nuclear test, the impact of a weakening US dollar on the defense industry, the potential defense impacts of Tropical Storm Harvey and more. This week’s guests include Nora Bensahel of American University’s School of International Service and the Atlantic Council, Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners, Ron Epstein of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.

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In a wide-ranging, multi-part interview with Defense & Aerospace Report, Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield, distinguished fellow and chairman emeritus at the Stimson Center, discusses statecraft under President Donald Trump, the outlook for the US State Department under his administration, the proposed US strategy shift in Afghanistan and more. The interview was conducted on Aug. 25, 2017, at Bloomfield’s northern Virginia home.

Full Coverage: AEI's Kagan on US Strategy in Afghanistan
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In Part 2 of an extensive interview on Afghanistan with Defense & Aerospace Report, Frederick Kagan, PhD, resident scholar, Christopher DeMuth Chair and Critical Threats Project director at the American Enterprise Institute, said the US military’s presence in Afghanistan should be a “long term support and train advise-and-assist mission” focused on empowering Afghan National Security and Defense Forces to become self-sufficient, but that current troop levels are too low. The interview was conducted at AEI’s Washington headquarters on Aug. 31, 2017.

Full Coverage: AEI's Kagan on US Strategy in Afghanistan
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In Part 1 of an extensive interview on Afghanistan with Defense & Aerospace Report, Frederick Kagan, PhD, resident scholar, Christopher DeMuth Chair and Critical Threats Project director at the American Enterprise Institute, praises President Donald Trump for acknowledging Afghanistan’s strategic importance in his Aug. 21, 2017, presidential address, but calls his plan for US presence in the country “a framework” versus an actual strategy. The interview was conducted at AEI’s Washington headquarters on Aug. 31, 2017.

Full Coverage: Bloomfield on Statecraft Under President Trump
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In the second installment of a wide-ranging interview with Defense & Aerospace Report, Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield, distinguished fellow and chairman emeritus at the Stimson Center, discusses how the US needs to diversify and exert its international influence to promote security in the midst of changing global power dynamics, and says the US “will be safer” if it’s perceived “as upholding justice.” The interview was conducted on Aug. 25, 2017, at Bloomfield’s northern Virginia home.

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