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Welcome to The Evening CSIS—my daily guide to key insights CSIS brings to the events of the day plus HIGHLY RECOMMENDED content from around the world. To subscribe, please send me an email at aschwartz@csis.org (mailto:aschwartz@csis.org) .


** NDAA Markup Day
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The House Armed Services Committee began marking up the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) today, as Defense News’ Aaron Mehta reports (http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/policy-budget/budget/2016/04/25/video-thronberry-sets-stage-ndaa-defense-budget-markup/83509406/?utm_content=buffer19471&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer) .

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Todd Harrison authored Analysis of the FY 2017 Defense Budget (http://defense360.csis.org/analysis-of-the-fy-2017-defense-budget/) on CSIS’s Defense 360 (http://defense360.csis.org/) micro-site.

Watch C-SPAN’s live feed (http://www.c-span.org/video/?408645-1/defense-authorization-markup) of the ongoing markup hearing—as POLITICO reports (http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-defense/2016/04/welcome-to-ndaa-markup-day-213981) , last year’s ran until 4:39 a.m.(!)


** Bombing in Turkey
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A suspected female suicide bomber detonated an explosive Wednesday evening near Ulu Mosque in the northwestern Turkish city of Bursa, wounding eight people, as Reuters reports (http://in.reuters.com/article/turkey-blast-idINKCN0XO1U6) .

Dive Deeper: The US Institute of Peace’s Kathleen Turner published “Femme Fatale: The Rise of Female Suicide Bombers (http://warontherocks.com/2015/12/femme-fatale-the-rise-of-female-suicide-bombers/) ” in December.


** It's Gonna Cost Ya...
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A new analysis was released this morning by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimating the United Kingdom’s economy would be 3 percent smaller in 2020 if Britain leaves the EU—numbers which translate into an average reduction of 2,200 pounds ($3,206) per household in Britain—the equivalent of a month’s pay, as the Washington Post’s Ylan Mui reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/27/leaving-the-european-union-could-cost-every-british-family-a-months-pay-new-report-says/) .

Dive Deeper: A new commentary by Annand Menon of Chatham House indicates “Britain’s Military Spending Would Not Suffer After Brexit (https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/britains-military-standing-would-not-suffer-after-brexit) .”


** In that Number
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** 90%
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The number of foreign fighters flowing into Iraq and Syria has dropped by 90% within the past year. Source: Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/04/26/number-of-foreign-fighters-entering-iraq-and-syria-drops-by-90-percent-pentagon-says/) .


** Critical Quote
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** “A political decision would have to be made that Chinese reclamation on Scarborough is unacceptable. But do we really want to draw a red line here? And what would the US do if the Chinese simply went ahead anyway?”
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—Bonnie Glaser, director of CSIS’s China Power Project, on international efforts to prevent reclamation in the South China Sea.
Source: Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/storm-clouds-gather-over-south-china-sea-ahead-of-key-un-ruling/2016/04/27/fd5d1c7b-d425-4567-b225-921c7ee1ffba_story.html) .


** One to Watch
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(Photo Credit: Twitter.)

Michelle Tan (@MichelleTan32 (https://twitter.com/MichelleTan32) ) is a senior staff writer at the Army Times. Michelle previously served as their San Antonio bureau chief. For news on the military, including this scoop about the Army’s first female infantry officer (http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/careers/army/officer/2016/04/27/meet-armys-first-female-infantry-officer/83591066/) , Michelle is one to watch.


** Optics
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The Atlantic’s Alan Taylor published a new photo essay “Cracking Down on Illegal Gold Mining in the Amazon (http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/04/cracking-down-on-illegal-gold-mining-in-the-amazon/479985/) .”


** Highly Recommended
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Via the New Yorker’s Nicola Twilley, “Will Smell Ever Come to Smartphones? (http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/is-digital-smell-doomed) ”


** CSIS Today
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CSIS’s Project on US Leadership in Development hosted “Report Launch: Barriers to Bankable Infrastructure: Incentivizing Private Investment to Fill the Global Infrastructure Gap (http://csis.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=833ec271d60c6750d9c3baaac&id=5bae813672&e=d556e146bd) .”

CSIS’s International Security Program hosted a discussion on “NASA’s Role in International Affairs (http://csis.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=833ec271d60c6750d9c3baaac&id=3f298745c1&e=d556e146bd) ” with Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr., NASA administrator.


** CSIS Tomorrow
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Join CSIS’s International Security Program tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. for “Deterrence in the 21st Century (http://csis.org/event/deterrence-21st-century) .”

Join CSIS’s Energy and National Security Program tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. for “Financing Production Resilience in the Oil and Gas Sector (http://csis.org/event/financing-production-resilience-oil-and-gas-sector) .”

Also tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., join CSIS’s Southeast Asia Program for “Religious Extremism: Perspectives from Indonesia (http://csis.org/event/religious-extremism-perspectives-indonesia) .”


** This Town Tomorrow
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GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs is hosting “The Evolution of the National Oil Fund of Kazakhstan: Inception, Utilization and Expectations (https://elliott.gwu.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D118698790) ” tomorrow at 4:30 p.m.


** CSIS on Demand
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In March, CSIS hosted “The FY2017 Defense Budget and Strategic Outlook (http://csis.org/event/fy2017-defense-budget-and-strategic-outlook) .”


** Sounds
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The latest episode of the Foreign Policy Global Thinkers podcast “How to Build a Media Industry from Scratch (http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/27/how-to-build-a-media-industry-from-scratch/?utm_content=buffercbeae&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer) ” was released today.


** I Like It Like That
Eye-catching things in CSIS's orbit
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The intersection of old and new media (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/25/business/vox-media-tries-something-old-on-something-new.html?_r=0) is something interesting and something to like.


** Smiles
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We’ve been talking about one of America’s most original and influential musicians for the past few days for obvious reasons. American music, its roots and heritage runs so deep—to me these roots are everything. The foundation of rock and roll comes from a mixture of so many forms of American music. Of course, the blues of the American South is a critical piece of that DNA.

Alan Lomax, the noted ethnomusicologist traveled many miles across this great country recording thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of the American Folk Song at the US Library of Congress. Without his work we might not have ever been able to fully understand how American music developed, nor would we have been exposed to some of the world’s greatest and most original artists.

Take the late R.L. Burnside who hailed from the hill country of North Mississippi. His guitar playing was otherworldly.

I was privileged to hang out with Mr. Burnside in the late 1990s when he became an icon of the modern garage rock scene and released blues music that sounded like nothing that had come before it. I can still hear him saying to me, “Boy, go get me a beer, a Budweiser…” Fetching Mr. Burnside a Bud was one of the great honors I’ve had in my life.

When Lomax first recorded R.L. in 1978, he captured something truly historic. It’s a smile to share it now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DOnKJ232M) .


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