Illicit Networks and Global Security
Society is becoming more acutely aware of the pernicious effects of illicit activity—from drug trade often conducted in broad daylight on street corners across...
Personal Privacy: Rest in Peace
The recent daily deluge of news reports has shattered American's confidence in the privacy of intensely personal information. The nation's computers have been hacked...
Planning Backwards and Forward
iF: What is the single most important thing the U.S. could do at present to secure our country and our allies? DR: One Rumsfeld Rule...
Are Drones the Answer?
A Navy X-47B drone does a fly by over the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush after it...
Understanding President Obama’s Nuclear Policy
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2012. At the bilateral meeting, Obama was overheard asking for...
The Asia Pivot in Theory and Practice
The USS Chung-Hoon guided-missile destroyer is in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) as President Barack Obama tours Southeast Asia to...
AFRICOM’s Role in Shaping the Future in Africa
In just a few months, the United States Africa Command—USAFRICOM, or simply AFRICOM—will celebrate its fifth birthday. Officially formed on October 1, 2008, AFRICOM...
Missile Defenses and U.S.-Russia Relations
President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on June 17, 2013. Responding to...
Hitlerland
History is Only Inevitable in Retrospect Asking readers not to think about World War II in a book about the rise of Hitler is a...