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bennordpaskin

Janine Davidson | Obama's Last National Security Strategy | Foreign Affairs - 2 views

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obama national security strategy Peace Document

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  • The president’s second National Security Strategy articulates a belief in a peaceful, rules-based international order; it also reaffirms the fact that none of this can happen without the leadership of the United States. For scholars seeking to trace broader themes in the president’s foreign policy strategy, the document promises good historical value. But to expect it to provide definitive answers to every crisis that now simmers across the globe—that’s asking a bit much of any NSS.
  • Recent announcements regarding military assistance to Ukraine, an authorization to use military force against ISIS, and hint
  • s of a shift in the drawdown in Afghanistan may signal a recognition of these mismatches. With two years left in the White House, perhaps this document will mark a few course corrections.
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  • It is a thankless job to issue a new National Security Strategy, as U.S. President Barack Obama did this month. Its creation is a churn of dozens of drafts circulated among scores of hapless staffers, each of whom is tasked with name checking his or her very specific issue. There’s little room for prioritization or bold new ideas; any artful turns of phrase are quickly ground into merciless governmentese.
  • This strategy is the second and last of Obama’s presidency, and it rightly describes a world beset by challenges and in dire need of American leadership (“lead,” “leader,” and “leadership” appear 94 times in the context of the United States’ role in the world).
  • It’s a thoughtful approach that strives to cast an eye beyond the geopolitical brushfires of the day and into planning years or even decades into the future.
  • The United States can’t identify a problem, shock-and-awe its way to victory, and expect to come home with all the loose ends neatly tied up. The world simply doesn’t work that way.
  • On the other hand, the terrible consequences of the United States’ 2003 cowboy-hooting, gunslinging invasion of Iraq illustrate precisely the reason a policy of strategic patience must exist today.
  • decisive action against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) as it gathered momentum in early June 2014.
  • bennordpaskin on 03 Mar 15
     
    Article that describes Obama's second National Security Strategy; the document expresses a desire for rule based international order and the necessity for the leadership of the United States.
  • campbellcondon on 03 Mar 15
     
    Obama's National Security Strategy has a higher chance of succeeding a little bit better due to this stricter rules on international order.
natedurrett

Report: Defense cuts degrading military, US no longer able to fight 2 wars at same time... - 0 views

www.foxnews.com/...e-to-fight-2-wars-at-same-time

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  • he United States military does not currently have the ability to fight two major wars simultaneously, according to a new report, a significant reduction from the capacity enjoyed by defense officials for decades. 
  • That strategy enables the U.S. military to defeat one adversary in a conflict while preventing another aggressor—seeking to take advantage of the United States’ preoccupation with the first conflict—from defeating it in a separate theater. 
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  • “The consistent decline in funding and the consequent shrinking of the force are putting it under significant pressure,” the report said. “Essential maintenance is being deferred; fewer units (mostly the Navy’s platforms and the Special Operations Forces community) are being cycled through operational deployments more often and for longer periods; and old equipment is being extended while programmed replacements are problematic.” 
  • “The cumulative effect of such factors has resulted in a U.S. military that is marginally able to meet the demands of defending America’s vital national interests.” 
  • natedurrett on 04 Mar 15
     
    Due to very large defense cuts, the US no longer has the budget to arm itself against two aggressors at once.The strategy before these cuts was that the armed forces would have a reserve of weapons and soldiers to counteract any attacking force that assumes the country is weak while fighting another war. Now this strategy is no longer able to be used and it now while at war there is no current strategy to replace it as of now.
paigedeleeuw

U.S. Should Arm Ukraine to Help Check Russian Aggression - US News - 0 views

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  • Despite President Barack Obama’s repeated assurances that Russia faces political isolation and an “economy in tatters,” Russia is still a very real threat to Ukraine – and potentially to other former Soviet satellites as well.
  • More than 5,400 people have been killed in the Ukraine conflict since Russian-backed rebels seized parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions last April.
  • Western pressure has not been able to successfully end the conflict.
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  • Russia’s military budget has still increased this year by 33 percent to 3.3 trillion rubles or more than $50 billion.
  • Moreover, some European politicians appear to be having second thoughts about maintaining sanctions against Russia.
  • current diplomacy is clearly failing.
  • On Feb. 12, Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko announced a peace deal after 17 hours of talks, yet these negotiations have not done much to end the conflict.
  • Russia has flouted the so-called Minsk II ceasefire, and Russian weaponry and soldiers continue to flow into Ukraine, with serious detrimental effects.
  • the need for the U.S. and its diplomatic partners to come up with a concerted strategy to push back against Russian imperialism. Increasing Ukraine’s military capabilities is a step in this direction.
  • Providing Ukraine with the weapons and training it needs in order to defend itself as part of a coordinated strategy to strengthen the Ukrainian state can contribute to stability by increasing the potential costs to Russia for its aggression.
  • supporting Ukraine will also ensure that Russia does not use its gains there as a precedent for invading other former-Soviet countries and re-establishing control.
  • Congress passed new legislation authorizing the provision of arms to the Ukrainian military.
  • Pentagon officials have confirmed that U.S. troops will deploy to Ukraine this spring to train four companies of the Ukrainian National Guard.
  • military aid to Ukraine will escalate tensions between the U.S. and Russia and prompt retaliation from Moscow.
  • the provision of weapons and training to Ukraine’s troops may strengthen Putin’s cry for a united nationalistic front against the West.
  • But Russia’s government, and its proxies in eastern Ukraine, has demonstrated that it will not be easily satisfied.
  • If it is not stopped there, it is liable to set its sights on still more territory that it hopes to acquire.
  • For Moscow, Ukraine represents the first step in a larger imperial project.
  • The U.S. should follow through with Congress’ determination to arm Ukraine and thereby help Kiev to secure its borders – and its sovereignty.
kyrranielson

Senate Hearings Reveal Changing Global Security Challenges - US News - 1 views

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  • kyrranielson on 03 Mar 15
     
    Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., bangs the gavel to start a committee hearing Jan. 21 on Capitol Hill. The day after the State of the Union address last month, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a Republican elder and new chairman of the Armed Services Committee, began a series of hearings examining "Global Challenges and the U.S.
  • kyrranielson on 03 Mar 15
     
    The U.S. government has been operating "a budget-driven strategy," in McCain's words, when what it needs is "a strategy-driven budget." I thought this idea was very interesting and that it could be the means to a completely different approach on budget and how it should be controlled.
campbellcondon

JSOC-ing Al Qaeda Around The World - 1 views

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  • campbellcondon on 03 Mar 15
     
    The new strategy for combating terrorist networks. This is a better system then the "global war on terror" idea. This will be a more effective way to deal with targeted terrorist threats using US military and the intelligence operation.
kyrranielson

Narrowcasting vs Broadcasting - 4 views

www.dr4ward.com/...-broadcasting-infographic.html

narrowcasting broadcasting

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      kyrranielson on 29 Oct 14
       
      Hard Facts are always good. Narrowcasting gives you the liberty to directly speak to a selective audience, but is this always a good thing?
  • sebasgm on 29 Oct 14
     
    I thought this was interesting as it compared and contrasted broadcasting and narrowcasting. It helped me better understand their correlation. The article shows that narrowcasting tends to be a better marketing strategy.
  • natedurrett on 29 Oct 14
     
    I also agree with sebasgm. This was a very interesting article in the way that it not only defines but also puts the two ideas against one another.
  • Joanne Kim on 29 Oct 14
     
    Seeing the graph, I think narrowcasting will be more effective for companies or certain groups that need to gain profit from a narrow group. For me, I think narrowcasting works better.
eleanorthorp

Forget broadcasting, the future is narrowcasting - 2 views

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  • mstorey12 on 29 Oct 14
     
    Chris Cramer is Global Editor of Multimedia at Reuters News and has editorial oversight of Reuters Insider, a multimedia information service for Thomson Reuters financial service subscribers that will be launched this year. Media organizations the world over are currently focusing on the future of their businesses.
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  • natedurrett on 29 Oct 14
     
    I agree with this document, it has very good points as to why narrowcasting is a more effective strategy due to the high probability of consumers being targeted to respond to these ads
  • Joanne Kim on 29 Oct 14
     
    although I mainly agree with the article, I still think broadcasting has a role in the media.
  • danielacon on 30 Oct 14
     
    I think news are always going to be relevant so broadcasting is always going to have a place in the market.
  • eleanorthorp on 29 Oct 15
     
    Something that I came to mind when reading this if we completely eliminate broadcasting will it create a bias between interests or the types of shows shown? Just something to think about.
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