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Earlier this month, Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians and federal, state, and local bomb squads participated in the Raven’s Challenge exercise. The Raven’s Challenge is an annual, interagency, counter IED exercise that incorporates scenarios focused on interoperability capabilities between public safety bomb squads and military EOD units in operational domestic type […]

Featured article: Fostering Interagency Collaboration for Upstream Counterproliferation by Matthew D. Rautio The proliferation of emerging and disruptive technologies, such as additive manufacturing and gene editing, is changing the way we think about national security. Such trends in science and technology inevitably increase the likelihood of hostile nations or non-state actors acquiring weapons of mass destruction […]

National Security   Trump faces the grim reality of Afghanistan: No quick path to victory and no clear way out, The Washington Post U.S. Navy Pauses After Losing Two Guided Missile Destroyers in Pacific, Foreign Policy Armed Militias Won’t Stop After Charlottesville, and That Worries Law Enforcement, Defense One As “fire and fury” subsides, what […]

National Security   FBI and DHS Warned of Growing Threat From White Supremacists Months Ago, Foreign Policy How US Military Leaders Are Reacting to Charlottesville, Defense One Domestic hate groups elude feds, Politico GOP chairman to discuss Charlottesville as domestic terrorism at hearing, The Hill U.S. judge upholds ship-based interrogation of Benghazi terror suspect seized […]

Featured article: Critical Infrastructure Protection by Patricia Ladnier Both the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) work to secure and defend the U.S., including protecting and securing key resources and critical infrastructure (referred to collectively as critical infrastructure). The Constitution and federal statutory law establish national security goals. The Critical […]

The Command and General Staff College opened its academic year with the International Flag Ceremony for Command and General Staff Officer’s Course 2018 on Aug. 14 at the Lewis and Clark Center. The ceremony features posting of the colors of 91 nations represented by students attending this year’s class. “Flags, although they’re cloth and just […]

National Security   Officials downplay the idea that nuclear war with North Korea is imminent, The Washington Post McMaster equates ‘terrorism’ with Charlottesville car attack, Politico State Department Confronts North Korea With Rows of Vacant Positions, Government Executive Here’s the Memo That Blew Up the NSC, Foreign Policy Top U.S. General Readies Military Plan for […]

Army University Press recently published “Cultural Perspectives, Geopolitics & Energy Security of Eurasia: Is the Next Global Conflict Imminent?” under the auspice of Culture, Regional Expertise and Language Management Office. The anthology looks at the military and diplomatic dynamics of the Eurasia region, and provides cultural context of the region. The anthology is divided into three sections: […]

National Security   Why deterring and containing North Korea is our least bad option, Brookings How to Learn to Live With a Nuclear North Korea, Foreign Policy Why North Korea threatened Guam, the tiny U.S. territory with big military power, The Washington Post If U.S. Attacks North Korea First, Is That Self-Defense?, The New York […]

In a recent interview with Diálogo, U.S. Army Colonel Keith Anthony spoke about the mission and curriculum of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), and institute’s place within U.S Southern Command. Col. Anthony has been the commandant of WHINSEC for over two years. During the interview, Anthony discussed WHINSEC’s mission to train and educate military, law […]