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Featured article: USAID and USACE Collaboration in the Pacific by Patrick J. Wesner and Brett D. Fuller The United States must use its diplomatic, economic, and military tools simultaneously when assisting aspiring partners. — National Security Strategy, December 2017 The recently released U.S. National Security Strategy (2017 NSS) highlights the importance of strengthening international partnerships […]

National Security Pentagon To Start Creating Space Force — Even Before Congress Approves It, Defense One G.O.P. Faces Another Midterm Threat as Trump Plays the Shutdown Card, The New York Times Satellite Imagery + Social Media = A New Way to Spot Emerging Nuclear Threats, Defense One State Attorneys General Switch Focus to Disaster Preparation […]

Featured article: Women and Leadership by Kevin P. Shea The defense of our nation is a shared responsibility. Women have served in the defense of this land for years before our United States was born. They have contributed their talents, skills and courage to this endeavor for more than two centuries with an astounding record […]

National Security MAVNI troops falsified records, were security risk, DoD says, Military Times Russia fears leak of hypersonic missile secrets to West, BBC The missing link to preparing for military operations in megacities and dense urban areas, Army Times Trump officials weigh limits on uranium, invoking national security, The Washington Post How to reshape the […]

National Security What Do You Do Now, US National Security Leaders?, Defense One Emergency Managers Ask Congress to Invest in Mitigation, Route Fifty Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy Could Leave U.S. Defense Industry Behind, Foreign Policy Diplomatic niceties can blur the lines of personal and national interests, The Hill Trump’s Worst Blow To NATO Came at […]

On July 11, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the establishment of a Task Force on Market Integrity and Consumer Fraud. President Trump signed an executive order establishing the task force on the same day. The new task force will investigate and prosecute crimes of fraud committed against the U.S. government or the American people, recover […]

Featured article: Digital Age Superiority …or the Digital Dark Age Collapse by William B. Scott Cyber may be one of the most consequential national security challenges in a generation, and it will not grow easier with time. Our adversaries now believe that the reward for attacking the United States in cyberspace outweighs the risk. — […]

National Security FEMA Acknowledges Flaws in Puerto Rico Post-Hurricane Effort, Government Executive The Self-Inflicted Demise of American Power, Defense One 12 Russian Agents Indicted in Mueller Investigation, The New York Times Trump Sides With the Kremlin, Against the U.S. Government, The Atlantic Moon presses Trump, Kim for breakthrough in nuclear talks, The Associated Press Behind […]

National Security Sharing the burden without sharing a strategy, Brookings Donald Trump Didn’t Kill NATO, But…, Defense One The Trump-Putin Summit: Issues at Stake, Council on Foreign Relations It Still Doesn’t Get Worse Than Afghanistan, Foreign Policy Trump tweets ‘very nice note’ from North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, The Associated Press North Korea reportedly pushed […]

Last month the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a study on the pre-attack behaviors of active shooters. The new report is Phase II of a previous study on active shooters that was published in 2014 and examined 160 active shooter incidents that took place in the United States between 2000 and 2013. Whereas Phase I […]