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It's Wednesday, October 12th. |
U.S. and Allies Vow Long-Term Support for Ukraine
The U.S. and its NATO allies on Wednesday reaffirmed their support for bolstering Ukraine’s defenses in the face of intensifying Russian aggression. Germany delivered the first of four ultramodern air defense systems — so new that they have never been used on the battlefield — and the Netherlands promised millions of dollars in air-defense missiles, as the NYT reports. |
NATO sets sights on rebuilding Ukraine’s defense industry
NATO is developing a 10-year plan to rebuild the Ukrainian defense industry, with the first meeting between the alliance and Kyiv slated for next week, as Politico reports. |
Biden Administration Releases National Security Strategy
The U.S. is entering a “decisive decade” as it confronts both its competition with China and a Russia attempting to upend the international order, while facing challenges from climate change to energy to food security, international terrorism and disease, the White House said Wednesday as it released its national-security strategy, as the WSJ reports. |
Executive Education
Get a master’s-level introduction to the fast-moving global infrastructure story, including China’s Belt and Road Initiative and U.S. and allied responses, in a newly updated version of one of CSIS's most popular executive courses, Global Infrastructure Competition: Belt, Road, and Beyond. |
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
2.7
The International Monetary Fund forecasted the global economy will expand 2.7% in 2023, down from 3.2% this year and 6% in 2021.
Source: Wall Street Journal |
Critical Quote
“The whole world has just seen yet again the malice and cruelty of Putin’s war of choice — rooted in aggression, and waged with deep contempt for the rules of war.”
— Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin |
iDeas Lab
A new CSIS Beyond Parallel feature clarifies that North Korea’s September 25 test launch of a ballistic missile from the Taechon Reservoir was a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM), not a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) as commonly reported.
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: Ed Ram/Getty Images.) Men fix a pipe in the crater left by a missile strike the day before near Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 11, 2022. |
Recommended Reading
"Choking off China's Access to the Future of AI" by CSIS's Gregory C. Allen. |
Executive Education
Get a master’s-level introduction to the fast-moving global infrastructure story, including China’s Belt and Road Initiative and U.S. and allied responses, in a newly updated version of one of CSIS's most popular executive courses, Global Infrastructure Competition: Belt, Road, and Beyond. |
Video
Today, the CSIS Australia Chair held a conversation with Alex Joske to discuss the Chinese Communist Party's international intelligence operations, their impact, and lessons learned for another country. Watch the full event here. |
Podcasts
CSIS's Emily Harding sits down with the Honorable Celeste Wallander, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, for an update on Russia’s operations in Ukraine.
Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. |
Smiles
Wilco’s latest record “Cruel Country” dropped last May and it’s a return to the band’s alt-country roots. It’s a spare, stripped down 21-track double record with a few key highlights—especially “Falling Apart (Right Now),” which sounds like Bakersfieldesque electrified country. Just yesterday, at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Wilco played a few of their new tunes for the “Red Rocks Trail Mix” video series. |
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