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National Security Does Anyone Want to Be Secretary of Defense?, Foreign Policy Trump Calls For More Biometric Scans, Data Sharing To Stop Terrorism, Nextgov US military officers prep the battlefield for White House budget, Defense News The wrong decision on Hoda Muthana, Brookings CIA Lies Low, Waiting for Trump Storm to Pass, Foreign Policy Secretary […]
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Featured article: Everyone Else is They: A New Framework for Operational Culture by Megan Kraushaar I t is unlikely that the conflicts the U.S. military and intelligence communities will face in the future will be simple, conventional clashes. Rather, horizontal and vertical integration of the world add layers of complexity and competing alliances and identities that […]
... Read MoreNational Security Trump Is Risking an ISIS Resurrection, Bloomberg Trump Declares National Emergency, Calling Gov’t Border Drug Stats ‘Lies’, Defense One Trump’s Emergency Declaration is Going to Run into Four Hurdles, Defense One A president’s national emergencies are in the eye of the beholder, Brookings Troops do not view immigration as a ‘national emergency.’ Not […]
... Read MoreNational Security The Problem With a ‘Smart’ Border Wall, Government Executive Natural Disasters are Changing. How are We Responding?, Fors Marsh Group State of Defense 2019: Special Report, Defense One Practical Terrorism Prevention: Reexamining U.S. National Approaches to Addressing the Threat of Ideologically Motivated Violence, RAND Is there a way to save the ‘fraying’ nuclear consensus […]
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Defense Intelligence Chair and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Representative to the Combined Arms Center and Army University Roderic C. Jackson spoke on the mission of the DIA at the latest InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture on Feb. 14, in the Arnold Conference Room in the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth. Jackson’s is the seventh presentation of the […]
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Featured article: Adapting to Change: Strategic Turning Points and the CIA/DoD Relationship by David Oakley In January 2012, the Department of Defense (DoD) published “Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for the 21st Century,” outlining U.S. national security priorities for the coming decade. Although the document maintains counterterrorism as a strategic priority, its release shortly after the […]
... Read MoreNational Security Talks Over Border Security Break Down, Imperiling Effort to Prevent Shutdown, The New York Times U.S. Military Warns of Threat From Chinese-Run Space Station in Argentina, Foreign Policy The Pentagon is flying more drone missions along America’s border, Defense News Why the Wall Will Never Rise, The Atlantic With New Appointment, State Department […]
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by Dr. Michelle A. Miller, Mr. James Pennington, and Mr. Billy D. Miller, Jr. As part of the Army University, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) is constantly learning and evolving. This evolution of change is vital to the mission of the college in educating, training and developing leaders in a learner-centric […]
... Read MoreNational Security ‘Great nations do not fight endless wars’ — Trump touts troop drawdowns in State of the Union, Defense News National Security Highlights in the 2019 State of the Union, Lawfare Is The Trump Administration Prepared If A National Security Crisis Occurs?, NPR Federal Agencies Ramp Up Classified Plans to Protect 2020 Elections, Defense […]
... Read MoreNational Security The government is whittling down its security clearance backlog, Federal Times US special envoy for N. Korea going to Pyongyang: official, AFP What the demise of the INF treaty means, Brookings Secretary Nielsen Statement On New Migrant ‘Caravan’, Department of Homeland Security How U.S. Mission Creep in Syria and Iraq Could Trigger War […]
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