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It's Wednesday, February 2nd. |
U.S. Troops to Be Deployed to NATO Allies in Eastern Europe
President Biden has approved the deployment of about 3,000 additional American troops to Eastern Europe, as the NYT reports. |
U.S. to Send Jet Fighters, Warship to U.A.E. After Houthi Attacks
The U.S. is sending advanced jet fighters and a guided-missile destroyer to the United Arab Emirates to help it counter an escalating threat from Yemen’s Houthi rebels after the Iran-backed group launched a series of missiles and drones at the Persian Gulf nation, as the WSJ reports. |
WHO Urges Caution
Countries should be cautious about lifting coronavirus restrictions, World Health Organization officials warned Tuesday, noting that many places haven’t yet hit the peak of the Omicron surge, as the Washington Post reports. |
Executive Education
Register for CSIS's “Navigating U.S. Foreign Assistance” course to participate in an in-depth, hands-on study of the latest trends and techniques today’s international development and humanitarian leaders need to maximize their impact. |
Call for Applications: Strategy and Statecraft Fellowship
CSIS is launching the inaugural year of its Strategy and Statecraft Fellowship, an exclusive, world-class program of approximately 15 leaders. Fellows will grapple with the challenges of developing strategy and conducting effective statecraft, focusing on one of the most pressing challenges facing the United States: how to best compete with China. |
Video Shorts
Check out CSIS’s new series of video shorts: “Data Unpacked,” Testify,” “What's Happening,” “Preview,” and “High Resolution.” And don’t forget to subscribe to the CSIS YouTube Channel! |
In That Number
5.1%
Eurozone inflation hits record 5.1 percent in January as steep increases in energy and food costs defy expectations of slowing price growth.
Source: Financial Times |
Critical Quote
“It’s important that we send a strong signal to Mr. Putin and the world that NATO matters.”
— John F. Kirby, Pentagon spokesman |
iDeas Lab
New CSIS satellite imagery shows the construction of a Wagner Group camp at the international airport in Bamako, Mali, designed to support Russian private military company operations in the country.
The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and multimedia.![]() ![]() ![]() |
Optics
(Photo credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images.) U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announces a plan to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50 percent over the next 25 years during an event for the relaunch of the Cancer Moonshot initiative. |
Recommended Reading
“What’s ‘Politicizing’ the 2022 Winter Olympics?” by CSIS's Victor Cha. |
This Town Tomorrow
At 11:00 a.m., join the CSIS International Security Program for a conversation with Dr. Amy Zegart on her new book, Spies, Lies, and Algorithms, and her insights into the most complex challenges facing the U.S. intelligence community.
And, at 9:30 a.m., Brookings brings together experts in global health to discuss strategies for self-sufficiency in the health sector in the Global South.
Then at 12:30 p.m., the Wilson Center hosts a discussion about the crisis between Russia and Ukraine and how the Senate is looking to shape the U.S. response. |
Video
CSIS today hosted a conversation with Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) on the steps that might be taken to support Ukraine and deter a Russian incursion. |
Podcasts
In the latest episode of Coronavirus Crisis Update, Dr. Peter Kilmarx speaks about the struggle to advance contact tracing and its marginal progress in curbing Covid-19 transmission.
Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. |
Smiles
Here’s another rock band that did a pretty good job with country music.
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