Simons Center News

Featured article: Reassessing the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Response Enterprise  by Gary D. Mills We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. —Dwight D. Eisenhower During the last nine months, citizens throughout the world have observed momentous events that have added to a tumultuous global environment. Internationally, the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, […]

National Security Poor Security Could Leave U.S. Defenseless Against Missile Attacks, Nextgov New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation’s scale and sweep, The Washington Post Academic Paywalls Harm National Security, Defense One The Divide Between Silicon Valley and Washington Is a National-Security Threat, The Atlantic North Korea condemns U.S. sanctions, […]

Retired Ambassador Eunice Reddick visited Fort Leavenworth in December, serving as the DACOR visiting professor of diplomacy for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) Class of 2019. Reddick, who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Niger from 2014 to 2017, visited Fort Leavenworth Dec. 2016, 2018. During her visit to the area, Ambassador Reddick […]

National Security Trump’s New Vetting Center Just Opened. Will It Make Us Safer?, Defense One Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina pleads guilty to engaging in conspiracy against US, CNN China Involved in 90 Percent of Espionage and Industrial Secrets Theft, Department of Justice Reveals, Newsweek FBI: China threatens ‘the future of the world’, Washington Examiner […]

Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army (CASA) Michael D. Hockley led a discussion on the CASA program in the 5th Interagency Brown-Bag lecture of the 2019 academic year on Dec. 12, in the Arnold Conference Room of the Lewis and Clark Center, home of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. During his presentation […]

The U.S. Global Change Research Program published their Fourth National Climate Assessment in November. The report was released the day after Thanksgiving, and its findings run counter to the Trump Administration’s public statements on the subject of climate change. According to the report,  “Climate change threatens the health and well-being of the American people by causing […]

Featured article: Building a Foundational Understanding of Interagency Coordination by Patrick Naughton As the American military shifts from a counterinsurgency focus to one oriented on large scale combat operations (LSCO) against a peer-competitor and further develops the MultiDomain Operations (MDO) concept, interagency coordination will remain critical. As the largest ground force, the United States Army […]

National Security Trump commits to $750 billion defense budget, CNN Afghanistan’s Taliban Is in It to Win It, Foreign Policy What Trump Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency, Defense One Clearing the Air Around Facial Recognition in Travel, Nextgov Trump’s Push to Boost Lethal Drone Exports Reaps Few Rewards, Foreign Policy U.S., […]

National Security New satellite images reveal activity at unidentified North Korean missile base, CNN 70 House lawmakers to Trump: Kill proposed $33B defense cut, Defense News Would a $700 Billion Budget Really Sink the Pentagon?, Defense One Lawmakers Probe Role of Special Operations in Great Power Competition, Defense One Cracks, confusion and the US-China trade […]

Featured article: Musicians of Mars: Attaining Interagency Consensus on Perpetual War in Afghanistan by Robert H. Gregory, Jr. There is still a tendency in each separate unit… to be a one-handed puncher. By that I mean the rifleman wants to shoot, the tanker to charge, the artilleryman to fire…. That is not the way to win battles. If the band […]