Simons Center News

Earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3359, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2017. The bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002, and creates a cybersecurity agency at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The bill streamlines the National Protection and Programs Directorate, re-designating it the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency […]

Featured article: Why We Keep Getting it Wrong: What Makes the JIIM so Different? by William J. Davis, Jr. When I told a senior military officer who had spent significant time working on Capitol Hill and who had deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan that I was thinking about writing on the leadership challenges within the […]

Mr. Larry A. Hisle, executive director of the Greater Kansas City Federal Executive Board (FEB), conducted a presentation on the FEB in the latest InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Dec. 12, in the Arnold Conference Room of the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth. Hisle outlined the roles and missions of the FEB and how it serves […]

On December 5, Representative John Rutherford (R-FL) introduced to the House Homeland Security Committee a bill to authorize the participation in overseas interagency counterterrorism task forces of personnel of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The DHS Interagency Counterterrorism Task Force Act of 2017 amends Section 102 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, adding […]

National Security Trump’s National Security Strategy is Decidedly Non-Trumpian, The Atlantic Deputy national security adviser to leave White House, The Associated Press Hundreds more National Guard troops activated to fight California wildfires, Defense News Houston’s Former Mayor Still Waiting for an ‘Adequate’ Federal Response to Hurricane Harvey, Route Fifty The Death of the INF Treaty […]

In the ninth lecture of the Vietnam War Commemoration Lecture series conducted Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. in the Stove Factory Ballroom in downtown Leavenworth, Kansas, Dr, James H. Willbanks, General of the Army George C. Marshall Chair of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, discussed the Civil Operations and […]

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen announced last week the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office. The new office is established at a time when “The United States faces rising danger from terrorist groups and rogue nation states,” said Secretary Nielsen. According to Nielsen, “DHS is moving […]

National Security Okay, Say Someone Hacks into the US Power Grid. Then What?, Defense One DHS Launches New Office to Combat Threat of Terrorists Acquiring WMDs, The Washington Free Beacon US Must Bolster Its Presence In MidEast As ISIS Falls, Breaking Defense North Korea says U.S. threats make war unavoidable, China urges calm, Reuters FBI […]

As part of the CGSC Foundation / Simons Center’s Distinguished Speaker Series, Ambassador (Ret.) Deborah A. McCarthy visited Fort Leavenworth Dec. 5-7, as this year’s DACOR Visiting Professor of Diplomacy. During her visit Ambassador McCarthy met with students and faculty of the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), students and faculty of the U.S. Army […]

Featured article: Application of the Ethical Triangle in the 2014 Ebola Epidemic: A Case Study by Katie Martinez and Marcos Martinez Since 1976 there have been 25 Ebola outbreaks reported worldwide. Eight of these outbreaks occurred in the West Africa region. Although recent drug research shows promising results, there are no approved vaccines or known […]