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18 Nov 2021, 7:09 am
National security adviser Brent Scowcroft promised Turki full and immediate American support and proposed sending American troops to defend the kingdom, a campaign that became Operation Desert Shield. [read post]
7 Oct 2021, 12:36 pm
Less than 20 years after Henry Kissinger faked a stomachache and set off on a secret flight from Pakistan to Beijing that would lay the groundwork for diplomatic normalization after decades of estrangement, Brent Scowcroft was on a secret journey of his own to salvage Kissinger’s legacy. [read post]
26 Aug 2021, 9:40 am
An old adage in foreign policy circles—heard most often from policymakers at the White House or the State Department or the Pentagon—is that there are no policy failures, only intelligence failures. [read post]
2 Dec 2018, 9:26 am
But he also selected and was advised by perhaps the strongest and most stable national security team in American history, led by National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft and Secretary of State James Baker. [read post]
19 Dec 2017, 5:00 am
And so, despite the urgings of former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft and former diplomat and Under Secretary of State Arnold Kanter in 1994, and Secretaries of Defense William Perry and Ashton Carter in 2006, the U.S. has been content to let things drift along. [read post]
25 Jun 2017, 7:00 am
The most frequently lauded NSC “model” is that of LTG (R) Brent Scowcroft under President George H.W. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 6:29 am
Rather, it was the brainchild of then-National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 2:18 pm
In response to outcry over President Trump’s reorganization of the National Security Council—and particularly Steve Bannon’s elevation to the NSC and his permanent invite to the NSC’s Principals Committee—Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence announced that he was introducing a bill to codify and strictly limit NSC membership. [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 6:24 am
PDF version Review of David Priess's The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama (PublicAffairs, 2016). *** The writings of eminent practitioners of the craft of intelligence analysis—John McLaughlin, Mark Lowenthal, Tom Fingar, and others—all emphasize the centrality of the relationship between analysts and the policy makers they support in assessing whether… [read post]
22 Jul 2016, 1:29 pm
Some will support Clinton, as is true of Scowcroft and, I think, Rubin. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 7:03 am
Hadley Former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft Former National Security Advisor Chuck Hagel Former Secretary of Defense George P. [read post]
18 Oct 2015, 9:46 pm
Wednesday, October 21st at 8:45 am: Back at the Atlantic Council, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security will host Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee Adam Smith (D-WA) for a conversation on America's Strategic Defense Priorities. [read post]
5 Apr 2015, 5:23 pm
This report, a collaboration between Intel Security and Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, explores security risks and opportunities that networked medical devices offer to society. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 7:30 am
Not by accident, the 9/11 Commission’s admittedly “entrepreneurial” NCTC recommendation tracked closely a design favored by former National Security Advisor and then-Chairman of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Brent Scowcroft. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 9:46 am
Among others, the trip includes current Secretary of State John Kerry, former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and James Baker, former National Security Advisors Brent Scowcroft, Sandy Berger, and Stephen Hadley, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ). [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 11:10 am
Elsewhere yesterday, former national security advisers Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee and opposed a new Iran sanctions bill, the Hill notes. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 9:30 pm
”]January 12: Robyn Muncy (University of Maryland), on Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and the Persistence of Progressivism in Twentieth-Century AmericaJanuary 19: No seminar (Martin Luther King Day)January 26: Kathy Peiss (University of Pennsylvania), on Bookmen at War: Libraries, Intelligence, and Cultural Policy in World War IIFebruary 2: Pawel Machcewicz (Museum of the Second World War, Gdansk) on Poland's War on Radio Free EuropeFebruary 9: Charles Neu (Brown University) on… [read post]
2 Nov 2014, 9:00 pm
Thursday, November 6th at 11 am: The Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center will host General Lloyd J. [read post]
26 Oct 2014, 9:00 pm
Join David at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as he talks with former national security advisers Sandy Berger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Brent Scowcroft about the trends and challenges for U.S. foreign policy outlined in his book. [read post]
12 Mar 2014, 11:00 am
It discusses a confidential report prepared by Brent Scowcroft to the White House, the first intelligence reform effort after 9/11, as well as the 9/11 Commission’s report. [read post]
