Subject: The Evening: DOD Moves, Syria Chem Weapons Panel, Southern Rock and More
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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:06:00 +0000
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The Evening: DOD Moves, Syria Chem Weapons Panel, Southern Rock and More
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** Good Evening,
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It's Thursday, November 16th.

** Pentagon Moves to Develop Banned Intermediate Missile
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The United States, accusing Russia of violating a Cold War–era arms treaty, has begun researching the development of a ground-based cruise missile banned under the pact to counter weapons that Washington believes Moscow is fielding, according to U.S. officials, as the
WSJ’s Julian E. Barnes, Paul Sonne, and Brett Forrest report (https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-moves-to-develop-banned-intermediate-missile-1510862789?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See CSIS’s Tom Karako on “A Missile Defense Agenda (https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile-defense-agenda/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) ,” and the CSIS Missile Defense Project micro-website, “Missile Threat (https://missilethreat.csis.org/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) .”

** UN Showdown over Syria Chemical Weapons Panel
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Russia has blocked a U.S.-drafted UN resolution to renew an international inquiry into who is to blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria—Moscow’s 10th veto on Syria at the United Nations, as Reuters reports (http://news.trust.org/item/20171116204513-yhrf5/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) .

President Trump had urged the United Nations to extend the Syria chemical weapons panel, as Bloomberg’s Kambiz Foroohar reports (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-16/trump-weighs-in-urging-un-to-extend-syria-chemical-weapons-panel?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See “How the Syrian regime is dividing and ruling Aleppo (https://syria.chathamhouse.org/research/how-the-syrian-regime-is-dividing-and-ruling-aleppo?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) ,” by Chatham House’s Khaled Al-Khatib.

** Beijing Sails Ahead in the South China Sea
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With the Trump administration currently focused on other matters in Asia, such as North Korea,
Foreign Policy’s Dan DeLuce reports (http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/11/16/with-trump-focused-on-north-korea-beijing-sails-ahead-in-south-china-sea/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) that China is quietly pressing ahead with its agenda in the South China Sea.

Dive Deeper: For more on the South China Sea, visit CSIS’s interactive micro-website, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (https://amti.csis.org/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) .

** In That Number
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** 70%
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In some cases the Saudi government is seeking to appropriate as much as 70 percent of the recently detained business and royal suspects’ wealth in a bid to channel hundreds of billions of dollars into depleted state coffers.
Source: FT (https://www.ft.com/content/e888a676-caa9-11e7-ab18-7a9fb7d6163e?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “There are other brutal, autocratic regimes in Africa, but Zimbabwe has been particularly galling to U.S. policymakers.”
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— CSIS’s Jennifer Cooke (https://www.csis.org/analysis/zimbabwe-coup/?block3&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) .

** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt
The MIM-104 Patriot is the U.S. Army’s primary air and missile defense system. Missile Threat has a new video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=d-nVzO8eq0U&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) on how it works.

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

** Optics
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Die Welt
(Photo credit: STR/AFP/Getty Images.) A man walks past a military tank parked on the side of a street in the Zimbabwean capital Harare today.

** Recommended Reading
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“Iran factions use earthquake relief effort to pursue power struggle (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-quake/iran-factions-use-earthquake-relief-effort-to-pursue-power-struggle-idUSKBN1DG237?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) ,” by Reuters’ Parisa Hafezi.

** This Town Tomorrow
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Join the CSIS Americas Program at 11:00 a.m. for a conversation with Brazilian minister of defense Raul Jungmann (https://www.csis.org/events/global-leaders-forum-conversation-brazilian-minister-defense-raul-jungmann?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) on the state’s defense strategy and challenges.

And, at 3:00 p.m., join CSIS for a discussion with Dr. Serhii Plokhy on his new book, Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation (https://www.csis.org/events/lost-kingdom-quest-empire-and-making-russian-nation?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) .

** Video
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CSIS hosted the Sixth Annual Transatlantic Forum on Russia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj_VvynJYxI&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) today. Leading experts on Russia and former Soviet states discussed the historical understanding and grievances that shape Russia’s foreign policy and assessed opportunities to reinvigorate the Helsinki Final Act.

** Sounds
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The latest episode of 35 West features the founder of the Human Trafficking Institute (a former U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor) to discuss the mission of his organization and highlight the human trafficking crisis in Belize.

Listen on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/traffic-jam-belize-struggles-to-combat-the-sex-trade?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) or Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/35-west/id1288098233?mt=2&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789)

** Smiles
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Thanks to all who wrote in about the Magpie Salute and their hip-shaking southern rock. I love that they covered Delaney and Bonnie’s “Comin Home” in the clip played yesterday. I love that music so deeply.

The late Jerry Wexler once said to me in his distinctive Brooklynese, “Kid, for me it’s all about jazz and southern rock.” Talking to Jerry was like talking to Babe Ruth. After all, he did work with Ray Charles, the Allman Brothers, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Wilson Pickett, Dire Straits, Dusty Springfield, Delaney and Bonnie, and Bob Dylan, to name a few. And I’m not far from Jerry when it comes to my devotion to southern rock and jazz.

Delaney and Bonnie embodied quintessential southern rock. You won’t find them enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and they aren’t household names. But, they were legendary musicians in the late 1960s-early 1970s—they were especially legendary to the actual rock and roll royalty. Rock stars like Eric Clapton and George Harrison looked up to Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett and were in awe of their music. Clapton left Blind Faith to join Delaney and Bonnie.

Delaney Bramlett was born in 1939 in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, and incorporated the influences of Delta bluesman such as Robert Johnson into his music. In turn, Clapton has said, “Delaney taught me everything I know about singing.” To Clapton and George Harrison, Delaney was the guy who was the big star.

Watch this clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aazChqk4U-c&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5aee506c28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5aee506c28-145367789) and see how Harrison and Clapton blend in as musicians backing Delaney and Bonnie. Here, Clapton and Harrison were more than content to just be part of the band. This version of Delaney and Bonnie included Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, and Bobby Whitlock, who would later join Clapton to form Derek and the Dominoes. It also included the late Bobby Keys, who would play for decades with the Rolling Stones, and the late Billy Preston, who played with the Beatles in addition to his own celebrated solo career. What a band. What amazing music. What a smile.
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