Simons Center News
Featured article: The Proliferation of Decentralized Trust Technology by Alexander G. Mullin We will use sophisticated investigative tools to disrupt the ability of criminals to use online marketplaces, crypto-currencies, and other tools or illicit activities. — U.S. National Security Strategy, December 2017 The inclusion of the quote referenced above on page 12 made the December […]
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As part of the Simons Center Distinguished Speaker Series, Professor Mark R. Wilcox, Associate Professor and LTG William Eldridge Odom Chair for Joint, Interagency, and Multinational Studies at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College presented a talk titled, “Meeting the Russian Challenge in a Competitive Security Environment: Whither America’s National Interests,” to a […]
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National Security The real security threat to the 2018 midterm elections is low voter confidence, Brookings Mike Pompeo’s Worldview? Do As Trump Does., The Atlantic NSA Finalizes $6.7 Billion in Classified Tech Contracts, Nextgov Nothing About Trashing the INF Treaty Makes the US Safer, Defense One Bolton faces tense talks with Russia over nuclear treaty, […]
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Retired Ambassador Deborah McCarthy, the 2018 DACOR Visiting Professor of Diplomacy for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC), has expanded her podcast series “The General and the Ambassador: A Conversation.” McCarthy’s podcast promotes interagency cooperation and is produced by the American Academy of Diplomacy. Ambassador McCarthy’s podcasts brings together outstanding diplomatic and military collaborators to recount […]
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The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College’s Department of Joint, Interagency and Multinational Operations (DJIMO) and the CGSC Foundation cohosted a National Security Roundtable program Oct. 16-17, 2018 at the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The focus of this program was on the relationships and issues with China and India. On […]
... Read MoreNational Security The Coming Storm: Ethics in the Next War, Real Clear Defense America’s Indefinite Endgame in Syria, The Atlantic How To Get Nuclear-Weapons Treaties Back on Track, Defense One Picking a fight: Is Trump’s hawkish behaviour towards China the start of a new cold war?, South China Morning Post Department of Justice right to […]
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Featured article: Is the Morality of War Plausible in a Diverse World? by John Madden It seems evident from experience that there are different cultures, different cultural moral codes, and different individual moral views. The ancient historian, Herodotus, gives a famous account of when Darius of Persia caused certain Greeks, who cremate their dead, to […]
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The CGSC Foundation has completed its search for a new President/Chief Executive Officer this fall with the selection of retired Army Colonel Roderick M. Cox. Cox has served as the program director of the CGSC Foundation’s Simons Center since March 2016. The Foundation’s search began in April this year after current President/CEO, Doug Tystad, announced […]
... Read MoreNational Security Five Eyes intelligence alliance builds coalition to counter China, Reuters A Fatal Abandonment of American Leadership, The Atlantic Drones swamp US-Mexico border but federal agents powerless to stop them, Washington Examiner Military Leaders Are Starting To Freak Out Over Russia’s Information Warfare Dominance, Task & Purpose Tyndall Air Force Base a ‘Complete Loss’ […]
... Read MoreNational Security US indicts Chinese spy for trying to steal aviation trade secrets, Deutsche Welle Beijing accuses U.S. of weaving accusations ‘made out of thin air’ against arrested Chinese spy, The Associated Press In Pacific, US Army Shifts Training from Disaster Relief to War, Defense One How FEMA’s tough 2017 lessons are informing disaster response, Federal […]
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