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Representatives from 83 nations participated in the third annual Counter Violent Extremist Organizations Chiefs of Defense Conference hosted by chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Corps General Joe Dunford. The event, held in October, included U.S. combatant commanders and commanders of counterterrorism operations from around the world. At the conference, Dunford spoke of the need to focus […]

Featured article: Understanding the Human Dimension for Unified Action: An Approach to Scholarship, Complexity, and Military Advice by Stephan Bolton Now is the time for enlivened discourse about unified action, national policy, and the human dimension. The peoples and institutions that inhabit operational environments are always significant to our desired outcomes. As the U.S. military […]

National Security Trump Preparing to Oust Homeland Security Secretary, Post Says, Bloomberg What the Midterms Mean for National Security, Defense One The lame-duck Congress has a national security to-do list, Defense News The US Border Patrol’s last hiring surge invited a rise in corruption. Now it’s hiring again, Quartz Why victory isn’t the goal in […]

National Security Lower House Poised to Take Upper Hand on National Security, Defense One An American Accused of Joining ISIS Is Free, and a Bigger Story Is Beginning, The Atlantic DoD is sending 7,000 troops to the border. Here’s every unit going., Military Times Over 170 environmental groups say Trump’s border wall will destroy fragile […]

Featured article: Interagency Areas of Responsibility: It Shouldn’t Take a Genius to Make Geography Simple by Mark Sweberg and Allan Childers Many philosophers, artists, strategists, and inventors talk about the value of simplicity. Singer Pete Seeger said, “Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.” Philosopher Henry David Thoreau mastered […]

National Security Election Security is an Immediate National Security Concern, Just Security Bolton: National debt ‘threat to the society,’ forcing DoD spending to ‘flatten out’, Defense News The Pentagon, Soldiers And Taxpayers Will Pay For Trump’s Border-Troops Order, Government Executive The implications of artificial intelligence for national security strategy, Brookings It’s About National Security – […]

Featured article: Why We Can’t All Just Get Along: Overcoming Personal Barriers to Inter-organizational Effectiveness by William J. Davis, Jr. DoD placed Pakistan and India in separate geographic combatant commands in order to foster U.S. military relationships with each country, given their history of tension and conflict. In contrast, State placed Pakistan and India in […]

National Security Trump Shut Programs to Counter Violent Extremism, The Atlantic When to Call a Terrorist a Terrorist, Foreign Policy The Pentagon’s Getting More Secretive — and It’s Hurting National Security, Defense News Catching the mail bomber showed how amazing US law enforcement is, Washington Examiner If the Pipe-Bomb Mailings Aren’t Terrorism, What Is?, The […]

The CGSC Foundation conducted a fundraising event at the historic Frank Lloyd Wright home of Jim Blair in Kansas City on Oct. 25, 2018. Friends of the Foundation were in attendance at the event, which was hosted by Kevin Hancock, Foundation Trustee Wes Westmoreland and Michael Lintecum. The Foundation’s purpose in hosting an outreach/fundraising event […]

On Oct. 24, Dr. Donald Scott Stephenson presented “Caesar Without Legions: The German Army and the Fate of the Kaiser” as part of the General of the Armies John J. Pershing Great War Centennial Series. Dr. Stephenson examined the Kaiser’s decision, when in November 1918, the Kaiser was facing defeat on the battlefield and revolution […]