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Daily Dump: Pipeline Diplomacy in the Great Power Competition, Global Unrest Continues to Stir, Tajikistan Readies for Taliban Control and More – July 23, 2021

Daily Dump: Pipeline Diplomacy in the Great Power Competition, Global Unrest Continues to Stir, Tajikistan Readies for Taliban Control and More – July 23, 2021

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July 23, 2021

Podcast: Deep Futures and Urban Warfare – Urban Warfare Project

Speaker Series: Key Elements of the 2021 Nuclear Posture Review – NSI

Food Insecurity Among Veterans – RAND

Taliban battles Afghan military for control of Kandahar City – Long War Journal

Podcast: Solving the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy – Net Assessment

Updating Space Doctrine: How to Avoid World War III – War on the Rocks

Women, Peace, and Security: Moving Implementation Forward – War on the Rocks

A New Revolution in the Middle East – Center for Strategic and International Studies

Can America Trust China to Fight Climate Change? – Foreign Affairs

Algorithmic Warfare: Russia Expanding Fleet of AI-Enabled Weapons – National Defense Magazine

Iran’s Khamenei says water crisis protesters cannot be blamed – Reuters

Exclusive: As Taliban advances, Afghan military overhauls war strategy – Reuters

Mexico readies navy ships to bring food, supplies to Cuba – Reuters

To reach a peace deal, Taliban say Afghan president must go – AP

Volunteers hunting for Mexico’s ‘disappeared’ become targets – AP

Eritrean refugees under attack in Ethiopia’s Tigray war – AP

Opinion: Nord Stream 2 — Angela Merkel’s damaging legacy – DW

Tajikistan holds largest-ever military drill amid Taliban advance – DW

Baltic Pipe delay to push Poland back into Russia’s arms – DW

Turkish-backed rebels leave trail of abuse and criminality in Syria’s Afrin – Al Monitor

Chinese oil companies fill void in Iraq – Al Monitor

Ahmadinejad accuses ‘ring’ in Iran intelligence of espionage – Al Monitor

Biden’s China containment plan comes into view – Asia Times

Leaderless Lebanon headed down a road to ruin – Asia Times

Zhengzhou record rains wash out Apple, Nissan – Asia Times

Canadian Veterans Fill Void to Help Afghans Who Once Worked With Them – The New York Times

The Week In Russia: A Crackdown Changes The Landscape – Radio Free Europe

Azerbaijani, Armenian Forces Exchange Fire Along Tense Border Section – Radio Free Europe

Get Ready for a Spike in Global Unrest – Foreign Policy

China’s Floods Have Long Term Consequences – Foreign Policy

Can the World Avoid War in Cyberspace—and in Space? – Foreign Policy

Legal Tetris and the FBI’s ANOM Program – Lawfare

My Defence Story: Failures, Field and Finding my Inner Strength  – Grounded Curiosity

Lessons from History: How Not to Start another War? – Wavell Room

With Cutting-Edge Hypersonics, Russia Leads in New Arms Race – The Moscow Times

Biden Needs to Designate an Afghan Evacuation Interagency Task Force – Just Security

U.S. Weighs Deploying Balloons To Provide Internet Access To Cubans During Crackdown – The Drive

China Launched a Little Baby Version of the X-37B Spaceplane – Popular Mechanics

The Kaseya Ransomware Nightmare Is Almost Over – Wired

Rocket Report: Super Heavy lights up, China tries to recover a fairing – Ars Technica

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