Featured Article: Kinetic Energy Weapons…

● ehill ● July 5, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Kinetic Energy Weapons: The Beginning of an Interagency Challenge by Daniel C. Sproull In 1948, the UN Commission for Conventional Armaments defined weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as “…atomic explosive weapons, radioactive material weapons, lethal chemical and biological weapons, and any weapons developed in the future which have… Read More

Featured Article: Concurrent Biological, Electromagnetic Pulse and Cyber-attacks…

● ehill ● June 28, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Concurrent Biological, Electromagnetic Pulse and Cyber-attacks: The Ultimate Interagency Response Challenge by Patricia Rohrbeck The critical infrastructure components of an advanced society—telecommunications, transportation, banking and finance, petroleum and natural gas, food and water, public health and healthcare, and security—have at least one feature in common: All depend upon… Read More

Featured Article: Optimizing the CWMD Enterprise Across the Interagency

● ehill ● June 21, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Optimizing the CWMD Enterprise Across the Interagency by Michael J. Kwon In recent decades, interagency cooperation has enabled the U.S. government in countering weapons of mass destruction (CWMD) organizations. This interagency cooperation, collectively referred to as the U.S. CWMD enterprise is an ongoing effort to protect the nation… Read More

Featured Article: Plutonium and Picasso – A Typology of Nuclear and Fine Art Smuggling

● ehill ● June 13, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Plutonium and Picasso – A Typology of Nuclear and Fine Art Smuggling by Joshua D. Foss The global security environment continues to evolve. Globalization, advances in technology, and greater connectedness of people and economies have enabled transnational organized crime and new and existing illicit markets to expand. Never… Read More

Featured Article: Bioterrorism and Pandemic Response

● ehill ● June 6, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: A Nation Unprepared: Bioterrorism and Pandemic Response by John B. Foley In 2001, senior U.S. policymakers converged to participate in the still famous Dark Winter exercise. The exercise contemplated a covert, bioterrorist attack against the U.S. The scenario began with simultaneous attacks, involving smallpox, on shopping malls in… Read More

Featured Article: Importing Nuclear Weapons…

● ehill ● May 30, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Importing Nuclear Weapons Through the Selectively-Permeable Border of the United States by William T. Eckles The health of the U.S. parallels the health of a living organism. The body needs and seeks beneficial substances and interactions. The skin, lungs, and digestive tract of an organism are like the… Read More

Featured Article: Additive Manufacturing: Implications for the Interagency…

● ehill ● May 23, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Additive Manufacturing: Implications for the Interagency’s Nuclear Counterproliferation Tasks by John W. Andrews The emerging technology of additive manufacturing (AM) is rapidly revolutionizing the world of industry. Additive manufacturing enables the layering of materials, using precise, computer-controlled machines, to quickly build objects with complex shapes at low cost.… Read More

Featured Article: Demystifying the Interagency Process…

● ehill ● May 16, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Demystifying the Interagency Process and Explaining the Ambassador’s Role by Ronald E. Neumann This article is designed to be an introduction to the interagency process and its application in the field for those unfamiliar with the subject. One great obstacle to understanding the interagency process is the tendency,… Read More

Featured Article: Cognitive Dissonance and Religion in Military Stability Operations

● ehill ● May 9, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Cognitive Dissonance and Religion in Military Stability Operations by William B. Scott Cognitive dissonance is a psychological theory about how the mind resolves conflicting beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors held simultaneously. For many Americans, it is important to “emphasize the Christian religion,” while maintaining a “separation between Church and… Read More

Featured Article: Sharing Resources Between Government Agencies

● ehill ● May 2, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Sharing Resources Between Government Agencies by George K. Hughes Despite the continuous increase in operational tempo across the U.S. government, there has not been a proportional increase of resources. In fact, the level of uncertainty over resource availability in most departments and agencies continues to grow while they… Read More

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