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Today, President Trump signed an Executive Order revising a ban on individuals traveling from six majority Muslim countries. The original order signed in January was heavily criticized for causing confusion and uncertainty among federal personnel as to which travelers were subject to the ban. The new order aims to prevent foreign terrorist entry and promises better interagency collaboration in […]

National Security Throwing more money at the military won’t make it stronger, The Washington Post Want to Win Wars? Fund Soft Power, Trump’s Generals Say, Defense One Iraq To Be Removed From Trump’s New Travel Ban List: Official, Newsweek Air Force nuclear officer: New START treaty is ‘good for us’, Defense News McMaster rolls back […]

National Security Trump’s NSC: A Bureaucratic Balancing Act, The Cipher Brief Almost 200 Firms Have Bid To Build Trump’s Border Wall, Defense One New NSC chief pushed Trump to moderate his language on terrorism, Politico Play of the Day: Trump’s New Office… And Its Acronym, Government Executive Drugs, crime, and immigration: Nicer words from Trump, […]

National Security Retired generals urge Congress not to cut funds for diplomacy, The Hill How the FBI Is Hobbled by Religious Illiteracy, Government Executive McCain: Trump defense budget not enough for ‘world on fire’, The Hill Pentagon Officials Review Overall Strategy To Fight ISIS, NPR Retired generals cite past comments from Mattis while opposing Trump’s […]

Featured article: Leading the Interagency to Shape U.S.-China Relations by Timothy E. Steigelman Empires do not decline gracefully. While commentators may debate whether the U.S. is declining in absolute or only relative terms, China is undoubtedly on the rise; that rise is perhaps the single most important security issue for the U.S. this century. The U.S. national security […]

National Security Order from chaos: Building “situations of strength” – A National Security Strategy for the United States, Brookings The big news is not the FBI leaks. It’s what’s in the leaks., The Washington Post Trump’s CVE Program, Human Rights Watch FBI investigating reported death threats against Muslims by N.C. conservative activists, The Charlotte Observer Homeland […]

National Security 3 Urgent Tasks for Trump’s National-Security Team, Defense One Supreme Court To Decide If Mexican Nationals May Sue For Border Shooting, NPR The warrior-thinker Trump picked for national security adviser, Defense News On H.R. McMaster as national security adviser, Brookings How Trump’s Immigrant Dragnet Might Catch Your Personal Data, Too, Defense One DHS […]

National Security What Trump should do about terrorism (but probably won’t), Brookings Homeland Security Outlines New Rules Tightening Enforcement Of Immigration Law, NPR Trump Finalizes Executive Order to Put ISIS Detainees in Guantánamo, Foreign Policy How McMaster Could Change the Way the US Goes to War, Defense One DoD to Deliver Counter-ISIS Review to White […]

Featured article: The Use of Special Operations in Conflict Resolution: Assessing the Value of Peace Warriors by Spencer B. Meredith, III Special Operations Forces (SOF) can serve as conflict resolution experts in places civilian peace practitioners cannot go. While to some this may seem like a controversial claim given the potential recourse to violence as SOF engage in […]

National Security Terror attacks? There’s an app for that, C4ISR Net Heavy Icebreakers: A National Security Imperative, The Maritime Executive Homeland Security Watchdog Takes on Issues Surrounding Trump’s Wall, Government Executive The Power of Persuasion in Countering Terror, The Cipher Brief Take Off the Pentagon’s Gloves in the ISIS War? Not So Fast., Defense One CIA […]