Center for Strategic Communication

What We Are Reading

Key Reads Paris attacks: France mobilizes 115,000 security personnel BBC France has mobilized 115,000 security personnel in the wake of Friday’s Paris attacks by Islamist militants, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said.   PM: I will make case for...

What We Are Reading

Key Reads What’s next after Myanmar’s elections Reuters Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy NLD party wins the Myanmar elections in a landslide. Tara Joseph says now businesses are looking ahead to a possible lifting of U.S. sanctions on the Southeast Asian...

Putin’s Birthday Presents

By Patricia H Kushlis Didn’t Vladimir Putin turn 63 on October 7?  And didn’t the Russian military provide him with a spectacular birthday present – the launch of 26 cruise missiles from the country’s flotilla in the landlocked Caspian Sea that very same day?  It was...

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...