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Featured article: There is No Silver Bullet and Other Lessons from Colombia by Stuart Lippe Colombia has always had large, ungovernable areas where the authority of the central government was often tenuous or non-existent. Colombians seemed to prefer to focus on their home regions, leaving the vast hinterlands to fend for themselves. Fifteen percent of […]

National Security American security assistance needs to fit with larger foreign policy goals, The Hill New clues bolster belief that ISIS leader is still alive — and busy with a chilling new mission, The Washington Post United States: Inter-Agency Cooperation Not So Compelling? The Implications Of US V Allen, Mondaq 2018 has been deadlier for […]

National Security Trump’s Jerusalem Theatrics Have Dealt A Blow to Peace, Foreign Policy Trump budget won’t rebuild the military, and that’s dangerous, think tank says, Defense News The White House is discussing replacements for homeland security chief Kirstjen Nielsen, Quartz Here’s how much the US has spent fighting terrorism since 9/11, Defense News The US […]

Featured article: Improving Interagency Coordination in Africa by Robert Bennett United States Army Africa (USARAF) executes over 400 activities annually valued at $2 million. These activities augment activities sponsored by other U.S. government, private charitable foundations, churches, and regional African organizations. The stated goals for these activities are complementary, but coordination among the groups is generally ineffective […]

Rear Admiral R. Timothy Ziemer has left the National Security Council (NSC) and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded. Ziemer, described as “one of the most quietly effective leaders in public health,” was the Trump administration’s senior director for global health security and biodefense at the NSC, and he will not be […]

Hurricane season has arrived for some and is fast approaching for others, with Pacific hurricane season beginning today, May 15, and Atlantic hurricane season beginning June 1. Ready.gov offers a digital toolkit to help prepare for hurricane season, including what to know before, during, and after a hurricane. The toolkit contains social media posts and links to graphics/videos […]

National Security Jerusalem welcomes the new U.S. Embassy as Palestinians decry ‘hostile’ move, The Washington Post National Security adviser John Bolton threatens ‘possible’ US sanctions on European firms over Iran, South China Morning Post Report to Congress on Artificial Intelligence and National Security, USNI ‘All Is Shambles’: The Days After the Iran Deal, The Atlantic […]

On May 9, 2018, Brian L. Steed, a retired lieutenant colonel, former faculty member of CGSC’s Department of Military History and and U.S. Army Middle East Foreign Area Officer, presented “Armageddon, Arabia, and the Modern Middle East,” at the Stove Factory Ballroom in downtown Leavenworth, Kansas. Steed’s lecture was the 15th in the General of […]

National Security The ‘Silver Lining’ to Trump Pulling Out of the Iran Deal, Foreign Policy Pentagon revised Obama-era report to remove risks from climate change, The Washington Post Mattis: Leaving the Nuclear Deal Will Help the US Negotiate with Iran, Defense One After the Iran Deal, Here’s What the US Military Is Worried About Next, […]

Mr. Thomas A. Gray, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Liaison to the Combined Arms Center and Army University, spoke at the latest InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture at U.S. Army Command and General Staff College on May 8. His presentation was entitled “The Domain of Space and National Security.” Mr. Gray’s presentation began with a simple […]