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April 27
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The CSIS Commission on Smart Power was quoted by a column in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "Business Forum: Economic Power can Help Calm Conflicts."
The federal government seems to be on hold these days as it waits for the new occupant of the White House. Regardless of who wins in November, it will be the American people, as always, who will bear the brunt of the decisions.Smart power: A relatively new term being used by the Center for Strategic and International Studies to describe how a nation wisely can use hard and soft power. It assumes that, because the world is being affected dramatically by global interdependence, its problems cannot be solved by hard power or soft power independently. The two must be integrated to work effectively with those countries that have similar interests and values. Read More
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January 17
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A CSIS Smart Power Speaker Series event with Adm. James Stavridis, Commander of the U.S. Southern Command, was quoted by Agence France Press, "U.S. Fears 'Disastrous' Links in Latin America with Islamic Militants."
A top US military commander said Wednesday he fears a "disastrous" linkup between drug traffickers and radical Islamists in Latin America, where he said Iran wields growing influence. "I fear greatly that the connectivity between narcoterrorism and Islamic radical terrorism could be disastrous in this region," Admiral James Stavridis, head of the US Southern Command, told a conference on Latin America. "What I worry about in this region with outside actors coming into it is the potential for those streams to cross, if you will, for the fuel of narcoterrorism to become engaged in Islamic radicalism here in the Americas, here in our home," he said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington.Read the article
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January 17
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A CSIS Smart Power Speaker Series event with Henry Crumpton, the former Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State, was quoted by the Washington Post, "The Surge Hits Pakistan.
The surge is about to hit Pakistan. The top U.S. commander for the Middle East says that the deteriorating situation in the country and the increased violence in the frontier area have prompted Islamabad to accept plans for U.S. forces in the country for the first time since early 2002. Meanwhile, a top counter-terrorism diplomat says the situation has become so dire, the United States cannot afford to wait. This cooperation and operations in an area previously off-limits to the U.S. military comes despite Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's rejection last week of unilateral operations by U.S. military forces. No one on the U.S. side is publicly suggesting that U.S. forces operate unilaterally. Nonetheless, there is a sense of urgency here that suggests that very possibility. Speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies earlier this week, former ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism Henry "Hank" Crumpton starkly described the situation in the Pakistani frontier area and the possibilities that could drive unilateral American action. Pakistan, he said, was "not exercising their sovereign responsibility within this tribal area. And as al Qaeda is able to expand the safe haven that enables them to plot and to plan and to train and to deploy operatives in this global battlefield, including into our homeland....it poses a direct threat to us and the United States, we have a responsibility to protect our citizens."Read the article
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January 15
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A CSIS Smart Power Speaker Series Event with Henry Crumpton, the former Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State, was quoted by Agence France Press, "Al-Qaeda Resurgence Sparks U.S. Concern."
An Al-Qaeda resurgence in Pakistan's tribal areas has raised deep concerns in the United States, which reportedly is pondering unilateral military strikes in a reflection of increasing impatience over Islamabad's counterterrorism strategy. US military chief Admiral Michael Mullen last week expressed "grave concern" over Al-Qaeda's use of the Pakistani tribal areas as safe havens, saying they posed a "significant" security threat to Afghanistan and Pakistan itself.Read the article
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January 14
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The CSIS Smart Power Speakers with Henry Crumpton appeared on C-SPAN.
CSIS hosted Henry A. Crumpton, the Ambassador-at-Large for counterterrorism at the Department of State. He discussed the importance of ambassadors in the field in winning this new war against asymmetrical threats and the need for diplomatic relations at global, regional, national, and local levels. John Hamre, president and CEO of CSIS, introduced the speakers. This event is one of a series related to the CSIS Commission on Smart Power, a high-level bipartisan group that recently released its final report, A Smarter, More Secure America. Watch the Video (real player 01:15:20)
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