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Louis A. Del Monte As potential adversaries develop hypersonic missiles, missile swarming tactics, and cyberspace weapons, the US military has turned to directed energy weapons for defensive and offensive purposes. Unfortunately, though, in War at the Speed of Light, Del Monte argues that these weapons can completely disrupt the fragile compromises that have kept the world safe through the Cold War. Directed energy weapons have the potential to disrupt the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction, which has kept the major powers of the world from engaging in a nuclear war, said Del Monte. Del Monte analyzes how modern warfare is changing in three fundamental ways: the pace of war is quickening, the rate at which weapons project devastation reaches the speed of light, and cyberspace is now officially a battlefield. In this acceleration of combat from Hyperwar to C-War, an acceleration from computer speed to the speed of light, ....
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1:30-3:00 PM | U.S. CT Policy: Charting a Path Forward As the threats posed by far right and populist violence rise in America, terrorism challenges persist and adapt abroad, and a new Biden administration is settling into office in Washington, counterterrorism policy looks set to face a challenge of priorities. How is the United States best placed to confront the wide range of terrorism threats emanating from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia? How can CT policy evolve to be more effective, and what challenges are likely to appear down the road? Is ending ‘forever wars’ and countering terrorism a contradiction or an opportunity? This panel will aim to assess the state of current U.S. CT policy and determine how the U.S. can adapt to do so more effectively amid a myriad of other geopolitical challenges. ....
He was locked up for supporting Islamist terrorism before turning his life around Ashley Powers, The Washington Post Feb. 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 2of6Mohammed Khalid s Koran.Photo for The Washington Post by Andre ChungShow MoreShow Less 3of6 4of6Mohammed Khalid is pictured in Ellicott City, Md., near where he grew up.Photo for The Washington Post by Andre ChungShow MoreShow Less 5of6Mohammed Khalid.Photo for The Washington Post by Andre ChungShow MoreShow Less 6of6 Terrorist. That s what the boys whispered after he stood up and introduced himself to his ninth-grade class. Terrorist. Soft enough that the teacher couldn t hear, loud enough to sting. The boys smirked, turned back to whatever was happening in English class. Mohammed Khalid didn t respond. He simmered inside. Mohammed was 13 and had arrived in suburban Baltimore from Pakistan just a few weeks before. He was a wisp of a kid in a collared shirt, with neatly trimmed black hair ....