The Taliban’s march continues as two more major cities fall. If that is too depressing for you how about a Podcast on Integrated Deterrence or a Mom’s Guide to Coercion and Deterrence? And someone is faking positions of NATO warships with so much more.
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August 11, 2021
Mapping Taliban Contested and Controlled Districts in Afghanistan – Long War Journal
Podcast: (Dis)Integrated Deterrence? – Net Assessment
A mom’s guide to coercion and deterrence – The Atlantic Council
Chinese Investment in Southeast Asia, 2005-2019: Patterns and Significance – New Mandala
#Reviewing From Hope to Horror – The Strategy Bridge
Watch / Speaker Series: Violent Extremism in America: Interviews with Former Extremists and their Families on Radicalization and Deradicalization – NSI
How the United States Can Deter Ransomware Attacks – RAND
Applying Machiavellian Discourses to the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – RAND
Former headquarters of Northern Alliance falls under Taliban control – Long War Journal
Farah City, Pul-i-Khumri fall to the Taliban – Long War Journal
Why is a British Carrier Strike Group Heading to the Indo-Pacific? – War on the Rocks
It’s Time for the Army to Embrace Telework – War on the Rocks
An Inclusive War – The Forge
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Early August – Small Wars Journal
8/10/8021 National Security and Korean News and Commentary – Small Wars Journal
Podcast: Key Square Part II: A Discussion on Taiwan with Jim Moriarty – The Asia Chess Board
Event: Prospects for Democracy in Cuba – Center for Strategic and International Studies
Podcast: U.S. Restraint in the Middle East – Babel: Translating the Middle East
The Limits of Cyberoffense: Why America Struggles to Fight Back – Foreign Affairs
America Still Needs to Rebalance to Asia – Foreign Affairs
It’s unforgivable to hold the Olympics in Beijing – The Washington Post
Immigration Defines Homeland Security Chief as He Thinks Bigger – Bloomberg Government
Orders – A User’s Guide – The Landing
Taliban take eighth provincial capital in speedy advance across Afghanistan – Reuters
N.Korea warns of ‘security crisis’ if U.S., S.Korea escalate tensions – Reuters
WIDER IMAGE With fuel scarce, Yemen’s forests are next casualty of war – Reuters
Afghan official, reports: Army chief of staff replaced – AP
China sentences Canadian to 11 years in case tied to Huawei – AP
Ethiopia armed group says it has alliance with Tigray forces – AP
Amnesty reports widespread rapes ‘with impunity’ in Tigray – AP
Wildfires in Algeria leave 42 dead, including 25 soldiers – AP
Ethiopia calls “all capable” citizens to fight in Tigray war – AP
Russia, Central Asian allies hold drills near Afghanistan – AP
Afghanistan: President Ashraf Ghani visits besieged city — live updates – DW
Opinion: Not too late to preserve fragile progress in Afghanistan – DW
German army veterans feel ‘anger and grief’ at fall of Kunduz – DW
Thank the Babylonians, not Pythagoras, for trigonometry – DW
Taliban on the rise in Afghanistan after US pullout – DW
Iran sending more weapons to Yemen’s Houthis amid cease-fire effort: Pentagon – Al Monitor
Ethiopia-Sudan tension rises over Tigray conflict – Al Monitor
Pakistan shifts gears on China’s Belt and Road– Asia Times
The only path to peace in Afghanistan – Asia Times
Could the Taliban Take Over Afghanistan? Here’s What We Know. – The New York Times
‘Anything Can Happen At Any Moment’: Ukrainian War Photographer On Life In The Trenches – Radio Free Europe
BBC Investigation Exposes Extent Of Russian Mercenary Involvement In Libya – Radio Free Europe
Russia Wraps Up Drills With Uzbek And Tajik Troops Near Afghan Border – Radio Free Europe
Mozambique: Sigh of relief following troops retake of key port town – Africa News
Tunisia’s on a Knife-Edge Between Reform and Autocracy – Foreign Policy
It’s official: The Air Force will let airmen put their hands in their pockets while in uniform – Task and Purpose
China’s Continued Disdain for the International Legal Order – Lawfare
To Honour All: Care for Veterans – Wavell Room
Behind the Scenes of the Global Counterterrorism Forum: A Bypass of Human Rights and UN Consensus? – Just Security
F-15 Uses New Infrared Pod To Shoot Down Target F-16 With AIM-120 Missile – The Drive
Someone Is Faking the Positions of NATO Warships at Sea. It Reeks of Russia. – Popular Mechanics
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