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New Lessons Lead to New War Plans for India and
Pakistan
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Cipher
Brief Expert and former senior member of the British Foreign
Office Tim Willasey-Wilsey takes a close look at how events between
India and Pakistan earlier this year have changed the rules for
potential war between the two nuclear states.
Read the full piece here...
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Intel Brief: Malicious Hacking targets U.S.
Political Organizations
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The
success of Russia’s meddling in 2016 U.S. election ensures that Moscow
will employ similar disinformation efforts as 2020 approaches.
- Indicating the severity
of the threat, DNI Dan Coats recently announced the creation of
the federal government’s first ‘election threats executive.’
- Both governments and
private sector firms have struggled to counter the malign
influence of disinformation campaigns waged via social media.
- Protecting the
integrity of the American election system needs to be viewed for
what it is: a national security imperative that deserves the
requisite resources.
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The 2020 Cipher Brief Threat Conference
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The Headlines:
U.S., China to Resume Trade Talks Next Week; Mexico: AMLO's Growth
Forecast Unshaken by IMP Cut; Venezuela: Congress Approves Mutual
Defense Agreement; Spain: Acting PM Fails in First Attempt to Form
Government; United Kingdom: Boris Johnson Elected as New Prime
Minister; Romania: Three Sentenced in U.S. Hacking Scheme; Russia: LGBT
Activist Murdered in St. Petersburg; North Korea: New Submarine Could
Increase Range of Missiles; South Korea: Warning Shots Fired at Russian
Jets; Iran: Nuclear Deal Signatories to Meet in Vienna; Syria: State
Media Says Israel Struck Army Outpost in South; Cameroon: Security
Forces Kill Civilians, Watchdog Says.
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U.S.,
China to Resume Trade Talks Next Week. A U.S. delegation is expected to travel to China
for trade talks next week, marking what would be the first in-person
talks since last month’s G20 summit. U.S. Trade Representative
Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will travel to
Shanghai for meetings with China’s Vice Premier Liu He and his team to
resume formal negotiations following their collapse in May.
Lighthizer and Mnuchin stressed in “very strong terms” in recent phone
calls with Chinese negotiators that the U.S. wants China to agree to
buy more American agricultural products. White House economic
adviser Lawrence Kudlow on Tuesday said that China appears willing to
do so as a “good-will gesture.” The Wall Street
Journal
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North
Korea: New Submarine Could Increase Range of Missiles. Kim Jong-un has inspected a newly built
submarine, state news media reported on Tuesday, a provocative move as
the United States struggles to resume dialogue on ending the country’s
nuclear and missile threats. The Korean Central News Agency said
the country planned to deploy the submarine soon in waters off its east
coast. The report included photographs of Kim visiting a shipyard
where the submarine was built. The photos showed part of the
submarine, but the article revealed no technical details on the
submarine. Along with its intercontinental ballistic missiles,
North Korea’s submarine and submarine-launched ballistic missile
programs pose one of the biggest military threats to the United States
and its regional allies. The New York
Times
South Korea:
Warning Shots Fired at Russian Jets. South Korean
jets on Tuesday fired 360 rounds of warning shots after a Russian
military plane twice violated South Korea's airspace off the country's
east coast. An unspecified number of South Korean fighter jets
scrambled to the area and fired 10 flares and 80 rounds from machine
guns as warning shots. The Russian reconnaissance aircraft left
the area but later returned and violated South Korean airspace again
for four minutes. South Korea said it was the first time a
foreign military plane had violated South Korean airspace since the
1950-53 Korean War. Russia denies that the incident occurred. CBS News Al-Jazeera BBC
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