Subject: The Evening CSIS: Street Fighting, Dual Drills, Light My Fire & More
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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 23:40:24 +0000
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The Evening CSIS: Street Fighting, Dual Drills, Light My Fire & More
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** Good Evening,
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Welcome to
The Evening CSIS—my daily guide to key insights CSIS brings to the events of the day plus HIGHLY RECOMMENDED content from around the world. To subscribe, please sign up here (http://bit.ly/ecs1s?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) .

** Street Fighting
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Iraqi forces entered ISIS-held Mosul today for the first time in more than two years, and are in a head-to-head battle with militants on the front line, defense officials said, as CNN reports (http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/03/middleeast/mosul-offensive-iraq-troops-in/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Anthony Cordesman just authored a new report, The Real Challenges of Security Cooperation with Our Arab Partners for the Next Administration (https://www.csis.org/analysis/real-challenges-security-cooperation-our-arab-partners-next-administration?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) .

** Dual Drills
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American and Russian personnel conducted disaster-relief drills just 150 miles apart in Europe's southeastern Balkan region today—a geopolitical face-off over a country the size of Connecticut, as NBC’s Alexander Smith reports (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-u-s-hold-dual-drills-150-miles-apart-balkans-n677351?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: The Kremlin Playbook: Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe (https://www.csis.org/analysis/kremlin-playbook?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) is the most downloaded report published this year by CSIS. It’s a must-read.

** Imperiling Progress
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CSIS’s Global Health Policy Center published a new report today by Janet Fleischman and Katherine Peck,
Imperiling Progress:  How Ethiopia’s Response to Political Unrest Could Undermine Its Health Gains (https://www.csis.org/analysis/imperiling-progress/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) .

** In That Number
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** 50%
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The approximate percentage by which the Egyptian pound was devalued against the dollar today after Egypt’s central bank free floated its currency. Source: Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-03/egypt-stocks-soar-most-since-2008-on-plans-to-float-the-currency?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “Anyone expecting a super tough review and enforcement process to come out of Marrakesh will be sorely disappointed.”
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—CSIS’s Sarah Ladislaw on what to expect from the COP22 climate change conference set to begin in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Monday. Source: New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/business/energy-environment/cop22-united-nations-climate-change-summit-what-experts-expect.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) .

** One to Watch
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Maj. Gen. Arnold L. Punaro (USMC, Ret.) (@ArnoldLPunaro (https://twitter.com/arnoldlpunaro?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) ) is the author of On War and Politics: The Battlefield Inside Washington’s Beltway. Last night, CSIS hosted the launch of On War and Politics, which included an insightful conversation with the author, Senator Sam Nunn, Senator John Warner, Gen. James Jones, and Dr. John Hamre. Watch it on demand here (https://www.csis.org/events/book-launch-war-and-politics-battlefield-inside-washingtons-beltway?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) .

** Optics
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(Photo credit: BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images.)
An Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service member drives a vehicle with a broken windscreen as they advance early in the morning near the village of Bazwaya, on the eastern edges of Mosul.

** Highly Recommended
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Business Insider’s Alex Lockie: “What North Koreans really think of their supreme leader (http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korean-opinions-kim-jong-un-2016-11?r=UK&IR=T&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) .”

** This Town Tomorrow
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Join the US Institute of Peace at 10:00 a.m. for “Myanmar’s Difficult Path Toward Peace (http://www.usip.org/events/myanmar-s-difficult-path-toward-peace?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) ,” featuring U Aung Lynn, ambassador of Myanmar to the United States.

And join the Hudson Institute at 11:45 a.m. for “A View of the US Election from Iraq (http://hudson.org//events/1379-a-view-of-the-u-s-election-from-iraq112016?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) .”

** CSIS On Demand
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CSIS’s Transnational Threats Project hosted “Counterterrorism Challenges: Improving Information Exchange Between Allies (https://www.csis.org/events/counterterrorism-challenges-improving-information-exchange-between-allies?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) ” with H. (Dick) W.M. Schoof, national coordinator for security and counterterrorism in the Netherlands, and Brig. Gen. Francis X. Taylor, under secretary for intelligence and analysis in the US Department of Homeland Security.

** Sounds
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The
Financial Times’ Gideon Rachman covers Xi Jinping’s rise as China’s “core” leader in a new podcast, “China’s return to strongman rule (http://podcast.ft.com/2016/11/02/chinas-return-to-strongman-rule/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) .”

** I Like It Like That
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The great Roger Angell on the Cubbies (http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/at-last?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) .

** Smiles
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Sometimes music sounds different and conjures different feelings or meanings when you hear it in a memorable place. Steppenwolf’s “Born to be Wild” sounds different than the other thousand times you may have heard it when it blasts from the car stereo while driving in Malibu with the windows open having just emerged from the surf.

I was sitting in Jacques Imo’s restaurant in New Orleans last week and had such and experience.

The stereo is a big part of setting the scene at Jacques Imo’s. The food, the people, and yes, the libations, all contribute to the atmosphere, but the Uptown funk and rock that drifts out of the restaurant’s loudspeakers can often be the main attraction.

I’ve listened to “Light My Fire” by The Doors countless times. But when it came out of nowhere in Jacques Imo’s, I heard it in a different way. It sounded perfect.

I haven’t been particularly interested in The Doors since I was about 14. But I love their music, if not their legacy. When I hung out with the band’s keyboardist Ray Manzarek in the early 1990s we talked about their last ever performance, which was in December 1970 in New Orleans. By then lead singer Jim Morrison had become a sad, addicted caricature of a rock star.

In the beginning, The Doors were sublime. When I heard it in Jacques Imo’s last week, it made me smile. Maybe it was because “Light My Fire (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdgUn-0DDFs&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=697f92ed79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-697f92ed79-145367789) ” sounded so good in this place that decades before had proved to be the end for the band.

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