Subject: The Evening: Tech Giants Combat Terror, May Day, 8 Miles High and More
From: "Andrew Schwartz" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:44:29 +0000
List-Id: 833ec271d60c6750d9c3baaacmc list <833ec271d60c6750d9c3baaac.212205.list-id.mcsv.net>

The Evening: Tech Giants Combat Terror, May Day, 8 Miles High and More
------------------------------------------------------------
Email not displaying correctly?
View it in your browser (http://mailchi.mp/csis.org/the-evening-tech-giants-combat-terror-may-day-8-miles-high-and-more?e=e55aaf27de) .
c48bd2c1-9b25-42f7-aa17-3c814b9557f7.jpg

** Good Evening,
------------------------------------------------------------
It's Monday, June 26th.

** Tech Giants Combatting Terrorism
------------------------------------------------------------
Social media giants Facebook, Google’s YouTube, Twitter, and Microsoft said today that they are forming a global working group to combine their efforts to remove terrorist content from their platforms and that they would work with “organizations such as the Center for Strategic and International Studies to work on ways to counter online extremism and hate.” as Reuters’ Julia Fioretti reports (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-internet-extremism-idUSKBN19H20A?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) .

The technology companies have been partnering with the CSIS Commission on Countering Violent Extremism on this effort as Twitter details in a press release issued today (https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/Global-Internet-Forum-to-Counter-Terrorism.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: To read more about countering violent extremism online, visit CSIS’s interactive report Turning Point: A New Comprehensive Strategy for Countering Violent Extremism (https://www.csis.org/features/turning-point?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) .

** May Day
------------------------------------------------------------
Britain’s Conservatives signed a deal today with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party that will allow Prime Minister Theresa May to govern after losing her majority in a general election this month, as the
New York Times’ Steven Erlanger reports (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/world/europe/uk-dup-deal-conservatives.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See Chatham House director Robin Niblett’s new commentary, “Britain’s Key Task Is to Achieve a Soft Transition to a Hard Brexit (https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/britains-key-task-achieve-soft-transition-hard-brexit?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) .”

** Trump-Modi Meeting
------------------------------------------------------------
Today, President Donald Trump welcomed Prime Minster Narendra Modi of India to the White House calling Modi a “true friend.” The meeting is ongoing at the time of writing, so you can follow the Economic Times of India (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/pms-three-nation-tour-narendra-modi-reaches-the-us-to-meet-donald-trump-on-monday-afternoon/liveblog/59312184.cms?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) for live updates.

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Rick Rossow penned this thoughtful piece in advance of Modi’s visit “Trump and Modi: Act 1 or Round 1? (https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-india-insight-trump-and-modi-act-1-or-round-1?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) ”

** In That Number
------------------------------------------------------------

** 3
------------------------------------------------------------
India’s ranking among Asian economies in terms of GDP. Source: Reconnecting Asia (https://reconnectingasia.csis.org/analysis/entries/indias-59b-infrastructure-push/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
------------------------------------------------------------

** “War may not be the normal state of U.S. national security planning indefinitely into the future, but war—and/or the constant risk of war—is a grim reality of our time.”
------------------------------------------------------------
—CSIS’s Anthony H. Cordesman released a new report today, “U.S. Military Spending: The Cost of Wars (https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-military-spending-cost-wars?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) .”

** iDeas Lab
------------------------------------------------------------
Die Welt
Four China Coast Guard boats sailed into Japanese territorial waters in the East China Sea Saturday, as CNN reports (http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/24/asia/china-japan-disputed-islands/index.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) . The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative’s “Playing Chicken in the East China Sea (https://amti.csis.org/playing-chicken-east-china-sea/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) ” analyzes the possibility of a crisis.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and video.

** Optics
------------------------------------------------------------
Die Welt
(Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Matthew Callahan.)
A Marine fires an M777A2 howitzer in the early morning in Syria, June 3, 2017. Marines have been conducting 24-hour all-weather fire support for the coalition’s local partners, the Syrian Democratic Forces, to support Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve.

** Recommended Reading
------------------------------------------------------------
Two recommendations actually—first, read and subscribe to CSIS’s new daily briefing on the state of the world and state of the art for all things transnational threats, “BTW: Beyond the Wire (https://www.csis.org/analysis/beyond-wire-26-jun-17?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) .” And, if you read today’s edition, you’ll find a link to Naval War College professor Michael Mooney’s assessment of ISIS’s “Evolving Theory of Victory.”

** This Town Tomorrow
------------------------------------------------------------
Join CSIS’s International Security Program at 8:00 a.m. for a conference examining trends in the missile threat environment and next steps for offense-defense integration (https://www.csis.org/events/integrating-strike-and-defense?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) .

Join the Heritage Foundation and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) at 1:00 p.m. for a conversation on the future of Mosul after ISIS (http://www.heritage.org/defense/event/after-the-isis-flag-falls-the-future-mosul-and-iraq?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) .

** On Demand
------------------------------------------------------------
Today, CSIS hosted “The Rule of Law in El Salvador (https://www.csis.org/events/rule-law-el-salvador?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) ,” featuring Justice Rodolfo González Bonilla of the Supreme Court of El Salvador.

** Sounds
------------------------------------------------------------
The CSIS Podcast explores the rise of Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the latest developments in Qatar’s rift with the rest of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

You can listen on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/the-csis-podcast/id383703191?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) or SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/saudi-arabias-new-crown-prince?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) .

** Smiles
------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks to all who wrote me last week about the incomparable, influential Byrds and their sublime guitarist/vocalist Roger McGuinn. I was talking with my Tulane roommates the other day about listening to The Byrds during Crescent City afternoons in the 90s—the music is utterly timeless. I listened to it this morning on the way to the pool. It was 64 degrees in DC this morning with no humidity and the sun was shining brightly—just like LA. A big smile for me.

“8 Miles High” is a song that has touched my soul from the first time I heard it as a youngster in the 70s. There was something magical about it, immediately. The original version was released as a single and featured on my favorite Byrds record, 1966’s “Fifth Dimension.” The song is actually about the band’s flight to London in 1965 and their tour of England that year. But I get lost in it and to me it could be about traveling anywhere (the lyric “8 Miles High” refers to a jetliner’s altitude which is actually 6-7 miles high—eight just sounded better in verse.) To me, this song is one of the best of all time—Rolling Stone agrees, it’s listed at number 151 out of RS’ 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. I’d put it much higher...8 miles higher.

In addition to the original 1966 version, I love the live track of “8 Miles High (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ymkBEhdHBE&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789) ” The Byrds recorded for their “Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971.” But I love this video version captured live from the Fillmore East in September of 1970 even more. Like “Live at Royal Albert Hall” it’s an instrumental version of the song. And it is exquisite.
I invite you to email me at [email-masked] (mailto:[email-masked]) and follow me on Twitter @handrewschwartz (https://www.twitter.com/handrewschwartz?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789)

============================================================
The Evening is my daily guide to key insights CSIS brings to the events of the day. It is composed with the External Relations team: Colm Quinn, Brandon Schwartz, and Jackie Ramsay.

Follow CSIS

** 4bde2700-3f50-471c-8398-aaf2d39e7ea7.png (https://twitter.com/CSIS?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789)
** a4a0cd19-112c-4480-b04d-b5fc26ca3857.png (https://www.facebook.com/CSIS.org?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789)
** 7ad0947c-e23a-43b0-bc32-0720c3c5361a.png (http://us11.forward-to-friend1.com/forward?u=833ec271d60c6750d9c3baaac&id=c4362a32de&e=e55aaf27de)

Connect w/ H. Andrew Schwartz

** 4bde2700-3f50-471c-8398-aaf2d39e7ea7.png (https://twitter.com/handrewschwartz?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789)
** a4a0cd19-112c-4480-b04d-b5fc26ca3857.png (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hschwartz1?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789)
** 7ad0947c-e23a-43b0-bc32-0720c3c5361a.png (mailto:[email-masked]?subject=Evening%20CSIS)
Copyright © 2017 Center for Strategic & International Studies, All rights reserved.

202-887-0200 | ** www.CSIS.org (http://www.CSIS.org?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789)

Center for Strategic & International Studies
1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
USA

** Update Subscription Preferences for: [email-masked] (https://www.csis.org/subscribe/manage/f326fc46b6/Q0bCCU-l2XPZXtjoZtuRX6Po26GKOlr188l9-Uh0yk8?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c4362a32de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c4362a32de-145367789)

** Unsubscribe [email-masked] from this list. (http://csis.us11.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=833ec271d60c6750d9c3baaac&id=f326fc46b6&e=e55aaf27de&c=c4362a32d