MUST-READS

• Security Arrests
  Four Russians, US citizen arrested on Saudi state security charges

  “Since the beginning of December, 57 suspects of different nationalities, including 33 Saudis, seven Yemenis, six Pakistanis, four Russians, three Egyptians, one American, one Turk, one Syrian, and one Indian were arrested,” according to the Ministry of the Interior.

• Security
  Four Russians, US citizen arrested on Saudi state security charges

  Four Russians and one US citizen were arrested on state security charges, according to data from the Saudi Interior Ministry.

• National Security Strategy
  How Trump’s National Security Strategy Will be Read in the Gulf

  Above all, as with many U.S. partners around the world, they will strongly welcome the clear commitment in the new NSS to valuing, respecting, and prioritizing U.S. partnerships around the world and, especially, to Washington’s global leadership role.

• National Security Strategy
  Trump’s National Security Strategy unveiled, with focus on economics

  Trump officially revealed the 68 page report during a Monday speech, telling an audience that the new strategy document will pave the way for America to remain a leader in global affairs.

  • Defense One - New National Security Strategy Sees Rising Russia, Retreat on ‘Democratic Peace’
  • CSIS - President Trump's New National Security Strategy
  • Whitehouse.gov - National Security Strategy of the United States of America
• National Security Strategy
  Donald Trump to Reverse Obama’s Inclusion of Climate Change as Threat to National Security

  In a speech that is expected to prioritize the president’s “America first” security blueprint, the threat of climate change will be downplayed in a sharp change of tack from the Obama administration—which emphasized it as one of the biggest threats facing the U.S.

  • The National - A national security strategy should provide clarity, but the Trump foreign policy doctrine is laced with contradiction
  • Defense News - Trump’s National Security Strategy unveiled, with focus on economics
• National Security Strategy
  Allies Are Key, Says Trump’s National Security Strategy

  Nine months after starting his presidency by swearing off global leadership in favor of “only America first” policies, Donald Trump is set to release a National Security Strategy that leans heavily on allies and international partners to address global threats such as Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and extremist organizations.

• Gulf Security
  Gulf Security: Looking Beyond the Gulf Cooperation Council (Working Draft)

  To the extent there now is serious real-world military cooperation between the Gulf states -- or between the Arab states in general -- consists of the emergence of a de facto alliance between 3 Saudi Arabia and the UAE. This is the alliance doing virtually all of the fighting, backing Hadi against the Houthis in the civil war in Yemen. The one truly advanced cooperative Gulf command and control and intelligence facility in the Gulf is the Saudi Air Force combined air command facility in Riyadh, where the vast majority of the air operations are Saudi and UAE.

• National Security Strategy
  Analysis: Trump’s National Security Strategy is Decidedly Non-Trumpian

  The draft document, which currently runs to roughly 70 pages, is broken into four pillars: defending the homeland, American prosperity, advancing American influence, and peace through strength.

• FBI
  Commentary: The Cost of Trump’s Attacks on National-Security Agencies

  The president’s efforts to delegitimize the FBI are frustrating and demoralizing the staff of the nation’s lead agency for domestic counterintelligence.

• Security Sector
  Unlocking Growth: How the Gulf Security Sector Can Lead Economic Diversification

  Defense industries and the security sector at large are a key target of potential private sector investment, employment opportunity and growth, and a means for the state to share the expense of technology development.

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