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Russia's Withdrawal
In a surprise move, Vladimir Putin today ordered the withdrawal of the \u201cmain part\u201d of Russian forces in Syria, as the New York Times \u2019 Andrew Higgins reports [ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/world/middleeast/putin-syria-russia-withdrawal.html ] .

In addition, a new report released today by the Syrian American Medical Society claims that chemical weapons have been used at least 161 times through the end of 2015 and caused 1,491 deaths, as the AP reports [ http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SYRIA_CHEMICAL_WEAPONS_ATTACKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT ] .

Dive Deeper: The full Syrian American Medical Society report, A New Normal: Ongoing Chemical Weapons Attacks in Syria [ https://www.sams-usa.net/foundation/images/A%20New%20Normal_Ongoing%20Chemical%20Weapons%20Attacks%20in%20Syria.compressed.pdf ] , is available for download.

The Institute for the Study of War today released a new report series: \u201cU.S. Grand Strategy: Destroying ISIS and Al Qaeda [ http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/new-report-series-us-grand-strategy-destroying-isis-and-al-qaeda-0 ] .\u201d

Open Letter on Defense Reform
Under the auspices of CSIS, former top US Defense officials and retired top-ranking military leaders today issued an open letter [ http://defense360.csis.org/open-letter-defense-reform ] calling for defense and national security reform.

And, the results of CSIS\u2019s \u201cDefense Reform in the 21st Century\u201d survey are in. You can view them here [ http://csis.org/files/attachments/160314_defense_reform_conference_survey_results.pdf ] .

Disputed South China Sea
Malaysian defense minister Hishammuddin Hussein said today he will meet his Australian counterpart next week to discuss China\u2019s military buildup in the disputed South China Sea and hold talks with fellow claimants the Philippines and Vietnam, as Reuters reports [ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southchinasea-malaysia-australia-idUSKCN0WG17R ] .

Dive Deeper: CSIS\u2019s Rick Rossow and Sarah Watson today authored new commentary for the CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI): \u201cChina Creates a Second Chance for the \u2018Quad.\u2019 [ http://amti.csis.org/4379-2 ] \u201d

In that Number
1 Million+
More than one million people took to Brazil's streets on Sunday to call for President Dilma Rousseff\u2019s resignation. Source: Reuters [ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-rousseff-idUSKCN0WG2J4 ] .

Critical Quote
"The suicide car bomb which killed 37 people in Ankara yesterday was the third such attack in the Turkish capital in five months and underlines the severity of the challenges confronting Turkey. The country is struggling with the unenviable task of having to simultaneously deal with the terrorist threats from the PKK, which it has been fighting intermittently since 1984, as well as ISIS, along with the growing costs and strains emanating from the seemingly endless Syrian crisis immediately beyond its southern border."
\u2014Bulent Aliriza, CSIS Turkey Project director, on Turkey\u2019s view of the situation [ http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/bc070bdc-e942-11e5-bb79-2303682345c8.html#slide0 ] in Syria.

One to Watch


( Photo Credit: Twitter. )

Cristina Maza (@CrisLeeMaza [ https://twitter.com/CrisLeeMaza ] ) reports [ http://www.csmonitor.com/About/People/Cristina-Maza ] on energy and cybersecurity for the Christian Science Monitor . For the latest energy and cybersecurity news, Cristina is one to watch.

Optics
Reuters has a photo roundup [ http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/war-games-in-south-korea?articleId=USRTX292LQ ] from this weekend\u2019s joint U.S.-ROK landing operation in South Korea.

Highly Recommended
Infographic: \u201cWhat Germany\u2019s state election results mean for its politics [ http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/03/daily-chart-8 ] \u201d via the Economist data team. [ http://thebea.st/1a6v4re ] CSIS Today
Today, CSIS hosted \u201cDefense Reform in the 21st Century [ http://csis.org/event/defense-reform-21st-century ] ,\u201d a half-day conference on restructuring the Department of Defense that explored possible changes to the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act. CSIS also hosted a discussion [ http://csis.org/event/cybersecurity-report-2016-are-we-ready-latin-america-and-caribbean ] on the state of cybersecurity in Latin America and rolled out the Cybersecurity 2016 report.

This Town Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Brookings will host Filippo Grandi, high commissioner for refugees at the United Nations, for a discussion on refugee movements from Syria to Europe. Watch live or register here [ http://www.brookings.edu/events/2016/03/15-unhcr-syrian-refugees-in-europe?rssid=UpcomingEvents&utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=FeedBlitzRss&utm_content=From+Homs+to+Hamburg%3a+Refugee+movements+from+Syria+to+Europe+and+beyond ] .

CSIS on Demand
CSIS hosted a discussion on China\u2019s initiative to promote Internet sovereignty as a key governing concept of the global Internet. Watch the event on demand here [ https://csis.org/event/china-reality-check-chinas-internet-sovereignty-initiative-origins-and-consequences ] . If successful, this initiative could have consequences for not only the Internet, but also for a wide range of industries, the media, and information accessibility.

Sounds
Today CSIS\u2019s Energy and National Security program released their latest podcast, \u201cPriorities and Insights from the Obama Administration FY2017 Budget Proposal [ http://csis.org/multimedia/priorities-and-insights-obama-administration-fy2017-budget-proposal ] .\u201d CSIS\u2019s Sarah Ladislaw discussed the President\u2019s most recent budget proposal with Ali Zaidi, associate director for natural resources, energy and science at the Office of Management and Budget.

I Like It Like That
Eye-catching things in CSIS's orbit

ICYMI, virtual reality is coming to local and national news. USA Today Network announced [ http://www.wsj.com/articles/gannett-plans-first-regularly-scheduled-news-show-in-virtual-reality-1457643939 ] Thursday it will launch a regularly scheduled VR news show this spring.

Smiles
Encore. Last Friday we saw an apocalyptic clip of The Who performing their anthem \u201cWon\u2019t get fooled again.\u201d

The song is so powerful that even stripped of all of its electricity and thunder, \u201cWon\u2019t get fooled again\u201d is a stunningly incendiary tune.

Here\u2019s Pete Townshend singing the song with a simple acoustic guitar at 1979\u2019s \u201cSecret Policeman\u2019s Ball.\u201d The Ball was a series of benefit shows to raise funds for Amnesty International. I\u2019ve been in awe of this version [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNjczDq5D4E ] of \u201cWon\u2019t get fooled again\u201d since I first heard it on the radio decades ago.

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