Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

FILE PHOTO: Members of Amhara region militias ride on their truck as they head to face the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), in Sanja, Amhara region near a border with Tigray, Ethiopia November 9, 2020. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo

What Ethiopia’s crisis means for Somalia

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, November 20, 2020

US-Russia relations: A conversation with Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

A group of Ukrainian officers enter the U.S. OC-135B observation aircraft at a military base near Kiev June 23. The U.S. military mission arrived in Ukraine for a two-day series of overflights using both American and Ukrainian observation aircrafts according to "The Open Skies Treaty " signed in 1992 between member states of NATO and the former Warsaw Pact.YK/FMS

The looming US withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks after a cabinet meeting in Ankara, Turkey, November 17, 2020. Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS

Repairing the rift with Turkey

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Ömer Taşpınar

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Crisis in Ethiopia and its regional repercussions

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST

FILE PHOTO: Members of Amhara region militias ride on their truck as they head to the mission to face the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), in Sanja, Amhara region near a border with Tigray, Ethiopia November 9, 2020. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri//File Photo

Averting civil war in Ethiopia: It’s time to propose elements of a negotiated settlement

Monday, November 16, 2020

FILE PHOTO: U.S President Donald Trump returns to the White House after news media declared Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden to be the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in Washington, U.S., November 7, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

A nuclear strike should require more than one person’s order

Friday, November 13, 2020

An electoral official wearing a costume of a wayang character stands as a voter marks her ballots at a polling center in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, April 17, 2019 REUTERS/Dwi Oblo

A democracy assistance agenda for the Biden administration

Patrick W. Quirk and Daniel Twining

Friday, November 13, 2020

Flags of the world

What leaders overseas will want to ask of the Biden administration

*VIDEO AVAILABLE: info@covermg.com*THIS PICTURE SHOWS: In one of the busts of the boat's recent tour, the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) boarding team searches a suspected smuggling vessel interdicted in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, May 31, 2020. The team seized more than 1,500 pounds of cocaine from the suspected smuggling vessel.....STORY COPY:This is the incredible moment the U.S. Coast Guard took out a drug smuggling boat’s engine with a bullet. Footage shows warning shots strafing across the water in front of the fast-moving boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, before a marksman disabled the vessel’s engine. It is thought that the warning shots from the helicopter would have been fired with a mounted M240 machine gun, while the disabling round would have come from a precision rifle. The scenes are among highlights of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton patrol boat as it returned to Coast Guard Island on 29 June after a 94-day counter-drug patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. During the tour, The crew detected and interdicted five suspected drug smuggling vessels, detained 14 suspected drug smugglers and seized over 6,000 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $113 million. The Stratton's advanced capabilities include a small unmanned aircraft system, an attached Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron MH-65 helicopter and aircrew, and an embarked Law Enforcement Detachment from the Pacific Tactical Law Enforcement Team. On June 27, Stratton's crew offloaded 3,720 pounds of marijuana seized in known drug-transit zones in early June by Coast Guard and U.S. Navy assets. The contraband and five suspected drug smugglers were transferred to the Department of Justice officials in San Diego for prosecution. Stratton's deployment began in late March as part of U.S. Southern Command's enhanced counter-narcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere to disrupt the flow of drugs in support of Presidential National Security

The Coast Guard and Marines should work together to enhance deterrence in the Western Pacific

Michael Sinclair and Rodrick H. McHaty

Thursday, November 12, 2020