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OPINION | Need of the Hour : New Intelligence Priorities for Anti-Access, Area Denial (A2/AD)
  • January 27, 2016
  • IndraStra Global

As the United States (U.S.) foreign focus shifts from a region where there has been a general freedom of access for intelligence gathering assets, leaders must consider that many regions containing near-future threats do not grant U.S.forces the permissive access that they have become accustomed to. Developed nations like Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran are among the locations that the military and State Department once again consider to be top threats. These potential threats simply will not allow foreign powers like the U.S.to have complete freedom of movement and will actively work against attempted U.S. intelligence operations…

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Small States Have Options Too: Competitive Strategies Against Aggressors
  • January 27, 2016
  • Thomas Mahnken
  • War on the Rocks

Looking back at history, one might reasonably conclude that small states are destined to be on the losing end of geopolitics. Events of the last decade in particular do not give us much reason for optimism about the destiny of small states facing coercion at the hands of their larger and more powerful neighbors. 

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