Snippet of the week: Bullitt: Look Chalmers, let’s understand each other… I don’t like you. Chalmers: Oh come on now, don’t be naive lieutenant. We both know how careers are made. Integrity is something you sell the public. Bullitt: You sell whatever you want, but don’t sell it here tonight. — Sparring between Steve McQueen …
Mother Nature’s Target List
by | 2019-05-27 | 1 Comment
Lyric of the week: We got department stores And toilet paper Got Styrofoam boxes For the ozone layer Got a man of the people Says keep hope alive Got fuel to burn Got roads to drive — Neil Young, “Rockin’ in the Free World” When we wonks think about target lists and we think about …
Middle East Missile Map
by | 2019-05-24 | No Comments
If see any news coverage about missile threats in the Middle East, nine times out of ten it is Iran’s missiles that are in the news. But Iran is just one of many countries in the region. Egypt, Israel, Turkey Saudi Arabia and Syria all produce, to one degree or another, their own missiles. And …
Geolocating IRGC and Strategic Military Sites in Iran
by | 2019-05-22 | 1 Comment
This post was authored by Cyrus Jabbari, a graduate research assistant at CNS. There’s been an increase in escalatory events in recent weeks surrounding the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and the Persian Gulf. Terrorist entities operating out of Yemen have on several occasions attacked Saudi Arabian oil and military facilities with IRI-supplied unmanned conventional-armed …
