FPI Overnight Brief
May 29, 2014
The Must-Reads
- Obama warns US faces diffuse terrorism threats
- WaPo, WSJ (sub), Bolton (WSJ sub), Abrams, F. Kagan, Schake, O’Hanlon on West Point speech
- Rogin: Obama’s $5 billion counter-terror fund in trouble
- Lake: As Obama draws down, al Qaeda grows in Afghanistan
- Iranian hackers targeting US officials through social networks
- Major faction splits from Pakistani Taliban after infighting
- Thornberry: Russia making case for more defense spending, Video of event w/FPI’s Zarate
- Winnefeld: More US missile defense systems in Pacific possible
- WaPo: Egypt’s Sisi suffers embarrassment at the polls
- FPI’s Kirchick: Snowden, Greenwald, and the NYT’s “High Standards”