INTELBRIEFS
March 20, 2023
IntelBrief: Is The United States a Viable Partner for Central Asia in a Strategic Competition?
In early March, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan before traveling onwards to the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting in India. Blinken meeting ......
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March 17, 2023
IntelBrief: Iraq Twenty Years after the U.S. Invasion
The 2003 decision by the George W. Bush Administration to invade Iraq, in the absence of an imminent threat to U.S. national security and without UN Security Council authorizati......
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March 16, 2023
IntelBrief: What the Chinese Spy Balloon Revealed About The U.S.
On May 1st, 1960, then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shot down a U.S. high-altitude spy plane, a U2 piloted by CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers. The U.S. initially den......
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March 15, 2023
IntelBrief: Ukraine War Erodes Russian Arms Sales
Sales of sophisticated conventional weapons have long been a key pillar of the Russian economy as well as a mainstay of its image as a global superpower. Russia was the world’......
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March 14, 2023
IntelBrief: China Brokers Iran-Saudi Rapprochement
On March 10, high-ranking Iranian and Saudi national security officials signed an agreement in Beijing to restore full diplomatic relations. They will return their respective am......
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