Center for Strategic Communication

What We Are Reading

Key Reads   South China Sea: Beijing ‘Not Frightened to Fight a War’ After US Move Tom Phillips / The Guardian Twenty-four hours after Washington challenged Beijing’s territorial claims in the region by deploying a warship to waters around the disputed Spratly...

UAE Takes Lead Role in the Gulf on Climate Action

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber of Abu Dhabi writes an important op-ed in Gulf News about the importance of finding solutions to climate change, titled “The Climate Change Challenge.” He says that Abu Dhabi will “bring the world together to drive more solutions” to this issue...

Escalation and Land Warfare in Offshore Concepts

When it comes to issues of irregular warfare and Middle Eastern conflict, there is an understandable focus on the terrestrial domain and the problems of insurgency and terrorism. Furthermore, given the recent record of that experience, it’s unsurprising that direct...