Subject: The Evening CSIS: Putin in Tehran, NK Cyber Ops, Black Water & More
From: "Andrew Schwartz" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:47:17 -0000

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 Putin in Tehran
 Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, today hosted Russian president Vladimir Putin in Tehran for talks focused on Syria. Khamenei told Putin that US policies in the Middle East were a threat to both of their nations, as Reuters reports [ http://reut.rs/1NM4Kit ] .

 Dive Deeper:  This week French president Francois Hollande visits Moscow and Washington in search of commitments for a “large and unique coalition” to defeat ISIS, as CSIS’s Simon de Galbert writes  [ http://on.wsj.com/1NM4Qqe ] for the  Wall Street Journal .

 Preventing Another Ebola Crisis
 In recent months, numerous groups of health experts have gathered to debate how to prevent another crisis like the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, as the  New York Times ’ Sheri Fink reports [ http://nyti.ms/1NM4YWW ] .

 Dive Deeper:  CSIS’s Steve Morrison contributed “After the Ebola Catastrophe” [ http://bit.ly/1NM56pr ]  to CSIS’s  2016 Global Forecast .

And, on December 2, CSIS will host the US rollout of the [ http://bit.ly/1NM5bte ]  final report [ http://bit.ly/1NM5bte ]  of the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Independent Panel to analyze the major weaknesses in the global health system exposed by the Ebola outbreak.

 North Korea's Cyber Ops
 Cybersecurity is in the news daily. Today, Government Computer News’ John Bradley had an interesting piece [ http://bit.ly/1P4bFJL ]  on “5 ways the U.S. government can get security right.”

 Dive Deeper:  Today, CSIS’s Victor Cha and James Andrew Lewis published the “Executive Summary”  [ http://bit.ly/1P4bXQZ ] of a new report that is unique in the study of cyber security:  North Korea's Cyber Operations: Strategy and Responses .

 In that Number
  $270 billion 
 The damage in Syria from the conflict totals an estimated $270 billion.
 Source:  Washin [ http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2015/11/13/kobane/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_daily202 ] gton Post [ http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2015/11/13/kobane/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_daily202 ]  .

 Critical Quote
 “Washington needs to understand that it will not stay immune to catastrophic consequences of Syria’s war.”
—Simond de Galbert, visiting fellow with the CSIS Europe Program.
Source: Wall Street Journal [ http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/11/23/the-stakes-for-france-as-hollande-rallies-allies-against-islamic-state ] .

 One to Watch 

 

 

Alberto Riva (@Albertoriva [ https://twitter.com/Albertoriva ] ) is the managing editor of  VICE News.  Alberto previously served as senior world news editor at  International Business Times  and as a journalist at  Il Sole 24 Ore , Italy’s largest business newspaper .  As Vice continues to reinvent the world news landscape, Alberto is one to watch. ( Photo Credit: LinkedIn.) 

 Optics
 Quartz has these photos [ http://qz.com/556494/photos-brussels-is-on-lockdown-amid-a-serious-and-imminent-terrorist-threat ]  of an empty Brussels on lockdown this weekend, after the city became the center of the investigation into the terror attacks in Paris.

 Highly Recommended
 Robert Kagan’s Saturday essay for the  Wall Street Journal , “The Crisis of World Order.” [ http://on.wsj.com/1NM4dgp ]  (Thanks to my dad for pointing me to this one.)

 CSIS on Demand
 Earlier this year, CSIS hosted Graeme Wood, author of “What ISIS Really Wants [ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980 ] ,” for an illuminating discussion on the Islamic State’s ideology, its strategy, and its goals. Catch the discussion here [ http://csis.org/event/tnt-roundtable-what-isis-really-wants ] .

 Sounds 
How can intelligence agencies track ISIS as its threat spreads from Syria and Iraq? Find out on this week’s CSIS Podcast [ https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-csis-podcast/id214886950?mt=2 ] .

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

The  Wall Street Journal  today published (and will all week) a multimedia series [ http://bit.ly/1NM45O8 ]  on demography that will look at how we will work, age, and live.

 Smiles
 The Doobie Brothers are one of my all-time favorite bands.  They just make me smile.  They’ve got it all.  Even a guitarist named “Skunk” (Skunk Baxter). The group has spanned the decades with hits, selling over 40 million records and still performing.

But I think they were never better than with their 1974 masterpiece “Black Water.”

Written by Patrick Simmons about his first visit to New Orleans, the song spoke to me long before I ever even thought about attending Tulane University.

Bouncing along in the back of my mom’s station-wagon on the way to swim practice (wood paneling and all) with “Black Water” grooving on the radio was as good as it got.  As long as I live I will never forget the song’s most brilliant verse:

“Well if it rains, I don't care/Don't make no difference to me/Just take that street car that's goin' Uptown.”

Not too many lyrics in music make me smile more than that verse (not to mention the hundreds of times I have actually taken that street car that’s goin’ Uptown all the way to Tulane and beyond where the Mississippi River bends.)

Here’s my favorite performance of “Black Water.” [ http://bit.ly/1P47OfO ]  Check out Skunk on pedal steel guitar—he looks like one of the Muppets. “Roll black water, keep on rollin’/Mississippi moon won’t you keep on shinin’ on me.”

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