Official account of
@AtlanticCouncil
's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Building strategies for national security and honoring Gen. Brent Scowcroft
LTG McMaster: Mr. Putin may believe that his aggressive actions in cyberspace, in the air, and on the high seas can undermine our confidence, our institutions & our values...He is wrong.
#USBalticSummit
Fresh from his trip to Southeast Asia, Indo-Pacific Security Initiative Nonresident Senior Fellow
@AdamSchwarzAGA
shed light on the regional impact of competition between Beijing and Washington.
TODAY AT 1:30 PM EDT: The Arctic is rapidly becoming an arena for great-power competition. Join
@ACScowcroft
as the
@usairforce
launches the first Department-wide strategy for the region.
#ForwardDefense
"If Europe wants to avoid being pulled into a general full-scale war once again, it must rearm at speed and scale," says
@andrewmichta
, Scowcroft Strategy Initiative Director and Senior Fellow, in a new article in
@politico
. Read the full piece here:
LTG McMaster: “For too long, some nations have looked the other way in the face of these threats,” he said. “Russia brazenly and implausibly denies its actions and we have failed to impose sufficient costs." READ the full transcript →
Sweden's distribution of pamphlets explaining how to prepare for conflict is "yet another signal that the security situation in Northern Europe has changed dramatically since 2014," when Russia intervened militarily in Ukraine, says
@MNordenman
Speaker highlight:
@SpaceForceCSO
John Raymond is the first Chief of Space Operations and the Commander of Space Command. He'll be joining us TOMORROW to discuss why the Space Force is critical to security in the unique Arctic environment.
#ForwardDefense
Former deputy secretary general of NATO,
@ARVershbow
: “There are no arrears owed to the US or NATO. President Trump is under the delusion that Allies pay the US for protection, or is feigning ignorance on how NATO works.”
#NATOSummit
The stationing of US troops in Europe, alongside NATO partners, is vital to deterring further military aggression from Russia, said Chairman of
#GenDunford
at
#ACdefense
Tonight, 7-9PM ET: The Baltic heads of state (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) & Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster discuss "100 Years of US-Baltic Partnership." Watch it LIVE → and follow our coverage with
#USBalticSummit
Can the US secure Europe and Asia simultaneously?
@andrewmichta
argues there is no need for a US "pivot to Asia" at the expense of robust support for European security. Read here:
.
@DFRLab
tracked online media coverage surrounding
#NATO
’s deployment in the Baltics and Poland since February 2016 to identify hostile, distorted, and misleading content. Read it here →
🚨NEW REPORT | Russia’s Growing Dark Fleet: Risks for the Global Maritime Order
In a new report for the
@AtlanticCouncil
,
@elisabethbraw
describes how Russia's dark fleet poses a significant threat to global maritime security:
What distinguishes hybrid war from diplomacy? Our Gray Zone Task Force argues that the target and intent of the action are key. Read more in a new Strategic Insights Memo from
#ForwardDefense
Major news out of yesterday’s
#NATOsummit
:
@NATO
leaders have for the first time agreed to expand Article 5, the collective defense clause, to include operations in
#space
. 1/
“It fell to Brent Scowcroft to define the role of national security advisor... that the national security advisor must serve the president, be an honest broker, and have a low profile and act offstage.
Brent not only defined the role, he then lived it." Stephen J. Hadley
“The most lasting negative impact of the 2008 war has been the de facto veto Russia now holds over Georgia’s NATO membership.”
Read more from
@LukeDCoffey
and
@AlexisMrachek
on 🇬🇪
#Georgia
’s accession process in our NATO 20/2020 volume.
On this date in 1947, Brent Scowcroft graduated from the U.S. Military Academy, with General Eisenhower handing him his diploma. Learn more about General Scowcroft and his legacy:
"But perhaps his most important and long-lasting impact is how he comported himself, how he always exhibited humility and nonpartisanship. As the Director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, we will continue to strive to honor his legacy"
@BarryPavel
The 2022 NATO Public Forum is LIVE | NATO leaders as well as international security experts will gather for a discussion about the future of the world’s most powerful political-military alliance.
#StrongerWithAllies
“We are playing checkers while our adversaries are playing chess.”
Former
@CIA
official &
#ForwardDefense
’s newest nonresident senior fellow
@MPolymer
sees that the US must engage in the
#grayzone
or risk future security.
Meet Marc:
We were delighted to host Indo-Pacific Security Initiative nonresident senior fellow & principal author of Australia's Defence Strategic Review
@DefenceProf
. After a briefing by Team
@USSC
, we discussed strategies to enhance US-Australia security cooperation in the
#IndoPacific
.
According to
@LukeDCoffey
and
@AlexisMrachek
, Georgia should be admitted to NATO today—but Abkhazia and the Tsishkinvali Region don’t need to be covered by Article 5 just yet.
Learn why.
#StrongerWithAllies
“NATO enlargement to Georgia and Ukraine would eliminate the void in which they find themselves, help stabilize the region, and introduce predictability into those nations’ relations with Russia,” write
@DamonMacWilson
& David J. Kramer
#StrongerWithAllies
What should US strategy in Europe look like going forward?
@andrewmichta
writes that the US "needs a Europe strategy that secures American interests while significantly reducing US costs to defend Europe." Read more:
“AI will profoundly change military organizational planning and coordination. The implementation of AI in the battlefield would mean advancing into a 'hyper war.'” Read
@KCH_Jans
on why NATO needs to get smarter on AI:
#NATOEngages
#StrongerWithAllies
We were pleased to host today's workshop with
@civilresistance
on Fostering a 4th Democratic Wave to catalyze support for pro-democracy movements & push back on authoritarianism.
Thanks to
@AmbDMitchell
@L_Pilegaard
&
@dctwining
for co-chairing.
COMING UP: Join the
@AtlanticCouncil
and the
@TheWilsonCenter
for a conversation with the Hon. Kay Bailey Hutchison
@USAmbNATO
, H.E. Sarah MacIntosh, and H.E. Kerry Buck, on "The Road to NATO’s Brussels Summit" Wed May 23 at 2:30pm.
#NATOSummit
--> RSVP:
Russia’s oligarchs brace for US report listing Putin friends. State and Treasury Dept. officials have been approached by Russian businessmen wishing to remain off the list, says Ambassador Fried:
In a new
@WSJ
piece
@andrewmichta
argues that the United States cannot dismiss the faltering efforts of NATO's western flank and should move closer to the Alliance's "coalition of the delivering," i.e. building a military installation in Poland. Read more:
"The US under a Biden and Harris administration would stand up for democracy. That means China doesn't get a pass on what's happening in Hong Kong and the repression democracy there. China doesn't get a pass on rounding people in a concentration camp in Xinjiang"
@PeteButtigieg
Senior Fellow
@Mpolymer
, who suffered Havana syndrome symptoms, is quoted in
@nytimes
on why it's critical to continue to investigate the cases that remain unexplained.
Last week,
@ACScowcroft
traveled to Stockholm to discuss NATO enlargement, Sweden setting up its first National Security Council, and Sweden's National Security Strategy. The team met w/nat sec advisor
@hlanderholm
and deputy nat sec advisor Hans-Christian Hagman, pictured here.
Today, we remember our namesake, General Brent Scowcroft, on what would have been his 96th birthday.
National Security Advisor to two presidents, he fundamentally changed the national security apparatus as we know it.
We are proud to carry your legacy forward.
Tackling hybrid threats is one of the greatest challenges for
@NATO
. At the
#NATOSummit
, allies will define the
#NATO2030
agenda, and it's vital that this include a strategy for countering hybrid.
Read
@LaurenSperanza
's recs & share your thoughts!
"To ensure the integrity of the electoral process, Congress must allocate election security funding for state and local govts and impose mandatory guidelines for election vendors. The election security funds established by HAVA appear to be insufficient."
Recommended Read:
@august_cole
's latest short story about the future of land warfare explores questions about leadership in the AI era, citizenship, autonomous weapons, & more, with art by
@AlexJayBrady
Welcome to
@Borzou
Daragahi,
@ACScowcroft
's newest senior fellow! We're glad to have you as part of the team. Read Borzou's first piece for
@AtlanticCouncil
's New Atlanticist, "Yemen’s Never-Ending War"
“Brent has a great propensity for friendship. By that I mean someone I can depend on to tell me what I need to know and not just what I want to hear, and at the same time he is someone on whom I know I always can rely and trust implicitly.” President George H.W. Bush
“This isn’t a new position on his part. It goes back decades to when he first started promulgating his views on the international order,"
@ARVershbow
says of reports about President Trump's desire to withdraw from NATO.
LIVE EVENT | Sweden's Minister of Defense
@PlJonson
shares his perspectives on Sweden’s future in NATO and Europe’s evolving security architecture
#StrongerWithAllies