CSP Daily Brief: Friday, October 18, 2013
The Latest From the Center…
…and From our Colleagues
- Peter Huessy: Reversing a Weak Defense
- The Gatestone Institute: Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology Condones Rape
Secure Freedom Radio
- Regressing Back To A Pre – 9/11 Mentality: with John Bolton, Roger Noriega, Bill Gertz, Diana West
- Secure Freedom Minute: Who’s Diminishing America?
Previously on Secure Freedom Radio
- The Reason For Skepticism In This Week’s Iranian Negotiations: with Ali Alfoneh, Fred Fleitz, Andy McCarthy, Gordon Chang
- Implosion of the World’s Largest Nation: with Ilan Berman
News
- Tunisian police kill two Islamist militants in clashes
- Ugandan, U.S. intelligence suggests Kampala attack imminent: police
- Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Chad, Lithuania, Chile elected to U.N. Security Council
- Saudi Arabia turns down UN Security Council seat
- Five Yemeni soldiers killed in suicide attack on military base
- Edward Snowden claims Russia, China did not get secret NSA documents
- Obama to nominate former Pentagon lawyer Johnson to lead DHS
- Iraq: Wave of car, suicide blasts kill at least 61
- Insight: Militia rivalries threaten new war in post-revolt Libya
- North Korean ‘military’ planes reportedly civilian aircraft repainted with camo
- Egypt denies unlawfully detaining Syrian refugees
- Bombs planted in confessional box of Syrian church
- Paris’ Arab institute files suit after protesters mar debate with Egyptian novelist al-Aswany
- Top commander of Libya’s military police force killed by gunmen: source
- Army Increases Commitment to Pacific Re-Balance
- Thousands of additional troops urged for force in Somalia
- Security official: Suspected militants kill Egyptian policeman in restive Sinai
- Bombings in Myanmar Unnerve Locals, Baffle Police
- China’s Nuke Sales a Go
- Report: Obama weighs unfreezing Iranian assets as reward for nuclear concessions
Commentary
- TIMMERMAN: Letter from an Iranian prison
- AHMARI: The Trials of Syria’s Opposition
- IBRAHIM: How Islamic Doctrines Justify Sex Jihad
- ROYCE: It’s time to put pirates and terrorists on notice
- FRANKS: Behind Iran’s charm offensive
- GREENFIELD: Bill de Blasio’s Open Door for Terrorists
Hearings and Events of Note
- Monday, October 21, 2013, 11:00 am The Future Marine Corps Center for Strategic & International Studies
- Monday, October 21, 2013 12:00pm The New Political Landscape of Afghanistan’s Neighborhood After ‘2014’ The Wilson Center
- Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 10:00am Power Shifts in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Emerging Strategic Relationship of Israel, Greece, and Cyprus The Hudson Institute
- Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 12:15pm: The Terrorist’s Dilemma, New America Foundation
- Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 3:30pm Impacts of a Continuing Resolution and Sequestration on Acquisition and Modernization (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces)
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