Subject: The Evening: Syria Strikes, Afghanistan, I’ll Be There and More
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 22:35:13 +0000
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The Evening: Syria Strikes, Afghanistan, I’ll Be There and More
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** Good Evening,
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It's Tuesday, June 6th.

** Air Strikes in Southern Syria
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The United States launched an air strike today against Iranian-backed fighters it said posed a threat to U.S. and U.S.-backed forces in southern Syria, in a new escalation of tensions between Washington and troops supporting Damascus, as Reuters’ Phil Stewart reports (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-usa-idUSKBN18X2JP?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Rebecca Hersman has a new report: Meeting Security Challenges in a Disordered World (https://www.csis.org/analysis/meeting-security-challenges-disordered-world?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .

** Third Attacker Named
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British police today named the third London Bridge attacker as 22-year-old Youssef Zaghba from east London, offering further suggestions that the plot was hatched locally even as questions were raised about gaps in counterterrorism surveillance, as the
Washington Post’s Karla Adam and William Booth report (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/questions-surface-over-how-british-police-overlooked-london-attackers/2017/06/06/5e95df06-4a34-11e7-987c-42ab5745db2e_story.html?utm_term=.0e77406a1c05&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: Rand’s Brian Michael Jenkins has this commentary: “London Bridge Attack: The Latest Example of ‘Pure Terror’ (https://www.rand.org/blog/2017/06/london-bridge-attack-the-latest-example-of-pure-terror.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .”

** Afghanistan Update
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A week of violence and protests in Afghanistan cast a shadow over a long-planned meeting named the Kabul Process. More than 20 countries took part, including some rivalling for covert influence in Afghanistan, as the
Guardian’s Sune Engel Rasmussen reports (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/06/afghanistan-peace-conference-violence-protests-kabul-bombing?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Anthony Cordesman has a new commentary: “Giving Afghanistan a Fighting ‘Last Chance’ (https://www.csis.org/analysis/giving-afghanistan-fighting-last-chance?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .”

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The Global Market for Natural Gas
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According to a new interactive article (https://www.wsj.com/articles/long-promised-the-global-market-for-natural-gas-has-finally-arrived-1496761392?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) published today by the Wall Street Journal, the global market for natural gas has arrived, and as the Journal’s Russell Gold and Alison Sider report, liquefied gas, new infrastructure, and revamped contracts have changed the calculus for consumers, countries, and companies.

Dive Deeper: See Brookings’ David Victor on “The world’s energy is getting cleaner (and cheaper)—but not quickly enough (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/planetpolicy/2017/03/25/the-worlds-energy-is-getting-cleaner-and-cheaper-but-not-quickly-enough/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .”

** In That Number
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** 14
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The number of Venezuelan army officers that were jailed on suspicion of rebellion and treason by the Maduro government when protests first began, according to documents seen by Reuters. Source: Girish Gupta and Andrew Cawthorne, Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-military-idUSKBN18X19O?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “Qatar can certainly make it less convenient to use the base, and the president’s tweets give them reason to flex their muscles and remind the United States just how convenient the base has been for the last 15 years.”
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—CSIS’s Jon B. Alterman on President Trump’s tweets claiming credit for Saudi Arabia’s move to isolate Qatar. Source: Mark Landler, New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/world/middleeast/trump-qatar-saudi-arabia.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .

** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt CSIS’s Global Food Security Project released a new report this week, Tracking Promises: Analyzing the Impact of Feed the Future Investments in Guatemala (https://www.csis.org/events/report-and-documentary-launch-tracking-promises-analyzing-impact-feed-future-investments-0?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: The Project will launch its report this Thursday at CSIS. Click here (https://www.csis.org/events/report-and-documentary-launch-tracking-promises-analyzing-impact-feed-future-investments-0?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) to RSVP or watch the live webcast.

** Optics
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Die Welt (Photo Credit: Army photo by Spc. Joseph Agacinski)
The U.S. Army Europe Band, led by drum major Staff Sgt. Redentor Aledia, marches in a parade in Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France, June 4, 2017, to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of D-Day.

** Recommended Reading
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The Pentagon’s annual report to Congress, Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2017 (https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2017_China_Military_Power_Report.PDF?source=GovDelivery&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) , just came out.

** This Town Tomorrow
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Join CSIS’s International Security Program at 9:00 a.m. for a discussion on how the United States can best meet security challenges in the midst of increasing fragility around the globe (https://www.csis.org/events/meeting-security-challenges-disordered-world?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .

Join CSIS’s Human Rights Initiative at 9:30 a.m. for the launch and panel discussion of the 11th edition of the Global Peace Index (https://www.csis.org/events/global-peace-index-2017-launch?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .

And join the Atlantic Council at 8:30 a.m. for a conversation on the future of defense and deterrence in Europe (http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/upcoming-events/registration/a080H00002WXJzUQAX?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .

** On Demand
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In April, CSIS hosted Mexico’s secretary of finance and public credit, José Antonio Meade, for a discussion on the future of the U.S.-Mexico bilateral economic relationship (https://www.csis.org/events/conversation-mexicos-secretary-finance-jos%C3%A9-antonio-meade?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .

** Sounds
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Building the Future’s new podcast explores Argentina’s economic history (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/argentinas-economic-history-and-lessons?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) with Dr. Domingo Cavallo, former finance minister and foreign minister of Argentina.

** Smiles
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A friend of mine’s son just got home the other day from his first year at NYU’s undergraduate film school. He’s a smart kid and I always like talking with him about film and culture.

I wasn’t surprised when he told me that, even though he spends time attending lectures by filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee, it is premium television that has now captured the cultural zeitgeist. We spent some time talking about HBO’s masterpiece, “The Night Of,” and how its eight episodes basically added up to an extended eight hour long film.

Another premium television series I am fascinated by is the Starz hit, “Outlander” which is the epic story of a World War II nurse, Claire Randle, who in 1945 finds herself transported back to the Scotland of 1743. Spoiler Alert!  Stop reading here if you don’t want any further details about “Outlander” during season two.

In season two, Claire is transported back from the mid-1700s to Scotland in the mid-1960s. And that’s when the show’s music score gets really good. First, the soundtrack spins the “King of Rock and Soul,” Solomon Burke’s classic “Baby, Come on Home” and then…then another stunning piece of music seeps into the score. It’s the Four Tops’ “Reach Out, I’ll Be There (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c56Sj7kMbLk&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=27f05af6fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-27f05af6fa-145367789) .” It absolutely gave me the chills. This is some of the best music ever created.
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