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ies the United States=has faced over the past 25 years has been in any way because its military =as too small or weak. As then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates note= in a 2007 lecture, "One of the most important lessons of the wars=in Iraq and Afghanistan is that military success is not sufficient to win.=E

all or weak. As then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates note= in a 2007 lecture, "One of the most importa

ather than as a tool to achieve any particular strategy," said Jeffrey Prescott, who served as director for Iran, =raq, Syria and the Gulf States at the National Security Council under Obama from 2015 =c, 2017. "Even days later, they are basking in the glow, but we do not=have a clear sense of why this strike and to what part

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the President. He should have been aware of it." Reed said on CNN's Inside PoliticsVi (7/5, 795K) that "this was real enough to be discussed that the National Security Council, real enough to alert our allies to protect their own forces and anytime there is a threat to US forces, the President of the United States should b

allets." In the past, hackers have used "fake accounts to try to convince users that the funds will be going to public figures like Mr. Musk or Mr. Gates," but "the attacks Wednesday were the first time that the real accounts of public figures were used in the scam." The Financial Times (7/15, Murphy

undoing many restrictions that had been in place under prior administrations." Unlike previous limited presidential findings, this one, "driven by the National Security Council and crafted by the CIA, focuses more broadly on a capability: covert action in cyberspace." Zack Dorfman of the Aspen Institute (and an author of t

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st On NSC, Sources Say. Politico (7/10, Lippman, 4.29M) reports the White House "has tapped Ryan Tully to be the top Europe and Russian official on the National Security Council, the fifth person to hold the job in three and a half years, according to two people familiar with his hiring." Politico says Tully, who assumes th

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n." He continued, "I think it should be effective if implemented properly, which I have confidence in the team, both at my old agency as well as in the National Security Council and elsewhere." CBS News (5/14, Segers, 5.39M) reports that Krebs "praised Mr. Biden for 'jettisoning the traditional approach' to addressing cyber

ble cause existed for the search. See Illinois I Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 103 S.Ct. 2317, 76 L.Ed.2d 527 (1

linton-Gore Transition. During Clinton's first term of office (1993-1997), Berger served as deputy national security advisor, under Anthony Lake in the National Security Council. In Clinton's second term of office, Berger succeeded Lake as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from 1997 to 2001. F

the first in the administration to privately raise the issue of a no-fly zone. But she retreated when her main ally in the Cabinet, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, loudly and publicly said a no-fly zone would mean attacking ground positions, and it was a bad idea to get involved in Libya. The White House was se

Bibi. “She’s indispensable—the only one trusted on all sides [of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict],” says Sandy Berger, who served as Bill Clinton’s National Security Council adviser. Most conspicuously, Hillary has championed what has come to be known as “civil society.” In practice that means moving beyond the usual con