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** Good Evening,
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It's Friday, August 18th.


** Winning in Afghanistan
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As President Donald Trump huddled with his national security team on Friday to try to agree on a strategy for Afghanistan that includes options ranging from a pullout or reduction of U.S. forces to a modest troop increase,
Foreign Policy’s Dan De Luce, Elias Groll, Jenna McLaughlin, Jana Winter, and Paul McLeary today published an exclusive “Inside Trump’s Tortured Search for a Winning Strategy in Afghanistan (http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/18/inside-trumps-tortured-search-for-a-winning-strategy-in-afghanistan/?platform=hootsuite&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789 ) .”

Dive Deeper: See CSIS’s Anthony Cordesman’s commentary “How the Trump Administration is Losing Afghanistan (https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-trump-administration-losing-afghanistan?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789) ."


** Barcelona Update
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Spain was seized Friday with the realization that it had incubated a large-scale terrorist plot, as authorities across Europe mounted a manhunt following the deadliest attacks to strike the country in more than a decade: two vehicle assaults in Barcelona and a Catalan coastal town, as the
Washington Post’s James McAuley, Michael Birnbaum, and Souad Mekhennet report (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/barcelona-reels-under-coordinated-attacks-that-claim-more-than-a-dozen-lives/2017/08/18/55ad9554-8383-11e7-9e7a-20fa8d7a0db6_story.html?utm_term=.9122a925484e&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789 ) .

Dive Deeper: See CFR’s Olivia McCoy’s “Bitcoin for Bombs (https://www.cfr.org/article/bitcoin-bombs?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789) .”

And, Rand’s Colin Clarke on “When the Car Is a Terror Weapon, Can We Prepare for Attacks? (https://www.rand.org/blog/2017/08/when-the-car-is-a-terror-weapon-can-we-prepare-for.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789) ”


** Cyber Command Elevated
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President Trump Friday announced that U.S. Cyber Command will be elevated to a "Unified Combatant Command," putting it on equal footing with existing organizations that oversee military operations in the Middle East, Europe, and the Pacific, as
Politico’s Martin Matishak reports (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/18/trump-us-cyber-command-elevated-unified-combatant-command-241783?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789 ) .

Dive Deeper: See the CSIS Cyber Policy Task Force report, From Awareness to Action: A Cybersecurity Agenda for the 45th President (https://www.csis.org/analysis/awareness-action?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789) .


** In That Number
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** 7
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Number of years U.S. Cyber Command has been in existence. Source: Defense One (http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2017/08/7-years-old-cybercom-becomes-full-combatant-command/140345/?oref=d-river&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789 )


** Critical Quote
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** "The challenge before us is multidimensional, costly and, frankly, bewildering and unlikely to be successful in the short term, given that there is not yet a serious effort to pursue non-military approaches to counterterrorism"
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— CSIS’s Thomas Sanderson for the Hill (http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/homeland-security/347051-opinion-terrorism-will-forever-haunt-us-if-nations-stand?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789 ) .


** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt This interactive map (https://www.csis.org/features/turning-point?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789) visualizes the world’s terrorist attacks from 2012 to 2015, found in
Turning Point, a report by the CSIS Commission on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE).

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 (Photo Credit: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images.) The NYPD has increased security around New York City after the terror attacks in Spain.


** Recommended Reading
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“West Should Keep a Wary Eye on Russia's Zapad War Games (https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/west-should-keep-wary-eye-russias-zapad-war-games?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789 ) ” via Chatham House’s Kier Giles.


** This Town Monday
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Join the Atlantic Council at 1:00 p.m. for “The Islamic State Of Iraq And Al-Sham (ISIS): Options And Ways To Respond (http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/upcoming-events/registration/a080H00002WYPo1QAH?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789) .”


** On Demand
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Thomas Sanderson, director of the CSIS Transnational Threats Project, discussed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUT6iDHhJ7g&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789) the Barcelona attacks on BBC World News (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUT6iDHhJ7g&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789) .


** Sounds
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CSIS’s Building the Future released a new podcast, “Exploring the Intersection of Responsible Investors and International Development with Bennett Freeman (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/exploring-the-intersection-of?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789) .”


** Smiles
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“Rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb, you know better but I know him
Like I told you, what I said, steal your face right off your head
Now he's gone, now he's gone, Lord he's gone, he's gone
Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track
He's gone, he's gone and nothin's gonna bring him back, he's gone”

The above lyrics come from another one of my favorite Grateful Dead songs, “He’s Gone,” performed here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EusEhivIH6g&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=99b79b9980-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-99b79b9980-145367789 ) in this clip from late 1980.

“Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile…”
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