CSP Daily Brief: Tuesday, June 4, 2013
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News
- DoD Document Sheds First Clear Light On AirSea Battle: Warfare Unfettered
- Navy Makes $6 Billion Multi-Year Destroyer Buy
- White House promises veto of GOP spending plan
- Pentagon Considers Help for Struggling, but Critical Small Businesses
- DOJ: Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Could Violate Law
- U.S. will sign U.N. arms treaty, Secretary of State John Kerry says
- FBI looking into kidnapping of Marine in Mexico
- Kerry makes first Latin America trip in office
- Egypt sentences U.S. nonprofit workers to five years in prison
- Britain probes sources of Islamic radicalization
- Under Siege: World must focus on threat from radicalism, says Israeli expert
- NATO to send expert mission to Libya
- UN: More evidence needed on Syria chemical weapons
- U.N. Panel Reports Increasing Brutality by Both Sides in Syria
- No safe way out as Syrian forces grind down besieged Qusair
- Iran’s Khamenei accuses critics of trying to undermine presidential election
- Obama orders new economic sanctions on Iran
- China and Russia set to press Iran on nuclear issue: diplomats
- As Turks Challenge Their Leader’s Power, He Tries to Expand It
- Red Cross cuts its staff in Afghanistan as Nato withdrawal fuels turmoil
- North Korea Yongbyon reactor work ‘nearing completion’
Commentary
- ABEDINI: Serving as a voice at the UN for my imprisoned husband Saeed Abedini
- AVNI: A ‘Model’ in flames
- CHAREN: How Obama Gets Us to Forget His Failure in Afghanistan
- IBRAHIM: Arab Spring Egypt’s ‘Legal’ Persecution of Christians
- JENSEN: Cybersecurity: U.S. Noisy But Still Supine
- LEHMAN: The American retreat on the seas
- MAURO: The Turkish Summer?
- MCGROARTY: China: From Cyberwar to Supply Chain Sabotage?
- MEYERS: Obama Admits Iran Is More Dangerous than Ever, Yet Does Nothing
- RICHMAN: On Syria, Has the Obama Doctrine Been Revealed?
- RUBIN: The Roots of the Turkish Uprising
Hearings and Events of Note
- Tuesday, June 4, 9:30am Oversight: Pending Legislation Regarding Sexual Assaults in the Military (Senate Armed Services Committee)
- Tuesday, June 4, 10:00am Emergency MGMT 2.0: How #SocialMedia & New Tech are Transforming Preparedness, Response, & Recovery #Disasters #Part1 #Privatesector (House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications)
- Tuesday, June 4, 10:00am The Department of Justice’s Handling of Known or Suspected Terrorists Admitted into the Federal Witness Security Program (House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations)
- Tuesday, June 4, 2:30pm Continuing Repression by the Vietnamese Government (House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations)
- Wednesday, June 5, 10:00am A Crisis Mismanaged: Obama’s Failed Syria Policy (House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa)
- Wednesday, June 5, 10:00am Markup of H.R. 1960 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (House Armed Services Committee)
- Wednesday, June 5, 2:00pm U.S. Relations with Vietnam (House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific)
- Wednesday, June 5, 2:30pm Nominations (Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
- Thursday, June 6, 10:00am Labor Issues in Bangladesh (Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
- Thursday, June 6, 2:15pm Nominations (Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
- Thursday, June 6, 6:30pm Freedom Flame Award Dinner 2013 (Center for Security Policy)
- Tuesday, June 11, Legislative: Subcommittee Markups (Senate Armed Service Committee)
- 9:30 a.m. Subcommittee on Airland
- 11:00 a.m. Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
- 2:00 p.m. Subcommittee on Personnel
- 3:30 p.m. Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
- 6:00 p.m. Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
- Wednesday, June 12, 9:30am Subcommittee Markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Seapower)
- Wednesday, June 12, 1:00pm The Department of Defense and the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget (House Budget Committee)
- Wednesday, June 12, 2:30pm Full Committee Markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Senate Armed Services Committee)
- Thursday, June 13, 9:30am Full Committee Markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Senate Armed Services Committee)
- Friday, June 14, 9:00am Why Can’t DHS Better Communicate with the American People? (House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency)
- Wednesday, June 19, EMET Ray of Light in the Darkness Dinner (Endowment for Middle East Truth)
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