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** Good Evening,
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It's Monday, August 21st.


** Afghanistan Strategy
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President Trump has settled on a new strategy to carry on the nearly 16-year-old conflict in Afghanistan which he will preview in a prime time address Monday night. The move, following a detailed review, is likely to open the door to the deployment of several thousand troops, as the
New York Times’ Michael Gordon, Eric Schmitt and Maggie Haberman report (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/world/asia/trump-afghanistan-strategy-mattis.html?_r=0&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See CSIS’s Anthony Cordesman’s “How the Trump Administration is Losing Afghanistan (https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-trump-administration-losing-afghanistan/?block1&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) ” and “U.S. Military Spending: The Cost of Wars (http://cs.is/2tNSk8g?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) .”


** Barcelona Update
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Catalan police shot dead the man suspected of killing 13 people in a Barcelona street last week, bringing to a dramatic end a five-day manhunt for those behind Spain’s worst terrorist attack in more than a decade, as the
FT’s Michael Stothard reports (https://www.ft.com/content/5581ac20-8674-11e7-8bb1-5ba57d47eff7?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) .


** Fleetwide Investigation
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The Navy’s top admiral on Monday ordered a fleetwide review of seamanship and training in the Pacific after the service’s fourth major accident at sea this year, a collision of the USS
John S. McCain off Singapore that left 10 sailors missing, as the Washington Post’s Anna Fifield and Dan Lamothe report (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/stricken-us-destroyer-arrives-in-singapore-after-collision-10-sailors-missing/2017/08/21/8ad075b0-8646-11e7-a50f-e0d4e6ec070a_story.html?utm_term=.b1132354b593&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) .


** New Russian Ambassador to the U.S.
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A career Russian diplomat, who gained the reputation of a hawk during his earlier tenure at the Defense Ministry, was named the new ambassador to the United States on Monday. The 62-year old Anatoly Antonov was appointed to the job by President Vladimir Putin's order, according to the Kremlin, as the AP’s Vladimir Isachenkov reports (http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/putin-appoints-russian-ambassador-us-49332791?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) .

And, the Guardian’s Shaun Walker reports (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/21/vladimir-putin-appoints-hardliner-anatoly-antonov-russia-new-ambassador-united-states?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) Antonov is “seen as a tough negotiator”

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal’s James Marson reports (https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-reduces-russian-visa-services-as-kremlin-caps-diplomat-numbers-1503315927?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) today that the U.S. is sharply cutting back visa services in Russia after the Kremlin responded to fresh U.S. sanctions by capping the number of U.S. diplomats in the country.


** In That Number
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** 4
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The number of U.S. Navy accidents that have occurred in Asian waters this year. Source: CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/21/politics/navy-ships-accidents/index.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) .


** Critical Quote
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** “Spain sits right at the heart and the crosshairs of jihadi lore.”
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—CSIS’s Juan Zarate on NPR’s Weekend Edition (http://www.npr.org/2017/08/19/544641077/counterterrorism-efforts-in-spain?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) .


** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt
Earlier this month, CSIS’s ChinaPower Project released a new interactive feature, “How much trade transits the South China Sea? (https://chinapower.csis.org/much-trade-transits-south-china-sea/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) ”

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and video.


** Optics
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Die Welt (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua Fulton/U.S. Navy/Getty Images.) Damage to the portside is visible as the USS
John S. McCain steers towards Changi Naval Base, Republic of Singapore, following a collision with the merchant vessel Alnic MC while underway east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore on August 21.


** Recommended Reading
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"Bannon’s departure has huge implications for the U.S.-China relationship (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/08/18/bannons-departure-has-huge-implications-for-the-u-s-china-relationship/?utm_term=.9824f00b8f7a&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) ," by the
Washington Post's Josh Rogin.


** This Town Tomorrow
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Join the Forum on International Affairs (FIA) at 6:30 p.m. for a discussion on Hong Kong’s relationship with mainland China (https://www.meetup.com/ForumOnInternationalAffairs/events/242405100/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) , and how the relationship impacts internal Hong Kong political and economic debates.


** On Demand
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This CSIS original video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjFgwt5qXEc&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) gives an overview of how the defense acquisition process works, the volume of people, time, and money that goes into making it function, and how this plays out in both simple purchases and complex weapons programs.


** Sounds
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From the Smart Women, Smart Power archives: “Delivering Democracy in Afghanistan–From Midwife to Politician.”

Listen on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/smart-women-smart-power/id924940383?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) or SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/delivering-democracy-in?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) .


** Smiles
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“Well I hear you went to Saratoga/ And your horse, naturally, won
Then you flew your Learjet up to Nova Scotia/ To see the total eclipse of the sun.”

And you thought I was going to play “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” (no offense to the great Jim Steinman who wrote the ballad.)

No chance. The above lyrics by the great Carly Simon have been happily in my ears for as long as I can recall. Simon’s “You’re So Vain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=180fe62941-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-180fe62941-145367789) ” (1973) is easily one of the greatest songs ever written. This performance is worthy of a total eclipse of the sun.
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