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Tag: National Security Policy and Strategy
DARK INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: WHEN CRIME IS THE “DIME”
Criminal states have infused their national instruments of power with an ethos that more ...
THE CHALLENGES OF KEEPING SPACE SECURE (LEADER PERSPECTIVES)
There is nothing we do in the joint force that isn’t enabled by space. ...
THE DOD-CIA RELATIONSHIP: ARE WE MILITARIZING STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE?
Military intelligence is important, but it isn’t the whole world As quoted from David ...
HOW CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTS AFRICAN SECURITY
The United States Institute of Peace found a ‘basic casual mechanism’ linking climate change ...
INF TREATY WITHDRAWAL: THE CONGRESSIONAL ROLE
There are times when Congress has to lead by bringing attention to an issue ...
A ZOMBIE ALLIANCE OR ALLIANCE AGAINST ZOMBIES? NATO AT 70 YEARS
one could argue that NATO [is] a rambling, destructive creature carrying on in the ...
“GOOD ALLIES”: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON AFGHANISTAN
War is complex. States often have multiple objectives for sending their sons and daughters ...
CONVENTIONAL AND UNCONVENTIONAL WAR ARE NOT OPPOSITES
It seems that Western military forces are doomed to reinvent the wheel every time ...
THE HIDDEN COMPLEXITIES OF U.S. DECISION-MAKING ON NORTH KOREA
Any U.S. pursuit of victory over North Korea could spark a corrosive, lethal, escalatory ...
WHY DOES THE MEDIA COVER STORIES IN SOME COUNTRIES … BUT NOT OTHERS?
If Moldova is never in the news, I doubt policy makers are ever really ...
CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS & THE DANGERS OF BEING A HIGHLY TRUSTED INSTITUTION
Don’t love the military too much, and don’t love the other institutions too little ...
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS & NATIONAL SECURITY
The approach that the government often takes to acquisition of [intellectual property] rights is ...
A CLOSER LOOK AT THE “NEW” U.S. STRATEGY FOR AFRICA
The new strategy seems far less a “strategy” and much more akin to a ...
ROLES (AND PERILS) OF BEING A WATCHDOG: THE PRESS AND GOVERNMENT
The relationship is complex because journalists and politicians depend on each other A free ...
THE TALE OF TWO GENERALS WHO BECAME SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
It might seem natural that retired flag officers would be considered for [Secretary of ...
HOW WILL BREXIT IMPACT GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY?
regaining national sovereignty poses problems for cybersecurity because the internet is inherently transnational Cybersecurity ...
DIRTY MONEY: DEVELOPMENT, MONEY LAUNDERING, & REAL ESTATE
Developing countries suffer the broadest, most severe social, economic, and security effects of money ...
INF TREATY WITHDRAWAL: THE CONGRESSIONAL ROLE
The notion that the Trump administration’S decision was unexpected is UNCONVINCING President Trump’s October ...
NUCLEAR DECISION-MAKING AND NUCLEAR WAR: AN URGENT AMERICAN PROBLEM
In nuclear war, the past is necessarily a poor guide Carl von Clausewitz wrote, ...
WHY WITHDRAW FROM THE INTERMEDIATE-RANGE NUCLEAR FORCES TREATY?
The Europeans should not be happy about [the US withdrawal] … even if it ...