America's Global Reach (Summer 2013)

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    Illicit Networks and Global Security

    Guermantes Lailari Summer 2013
    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

    Edward Masso Summer 2013
    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

    Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Summer 2013
    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?

    James S. Robbins Summer 2013
    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

    Michaela Dodge Summer 2013
    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

    Charles Morrison Summer 2013
    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

    John R. Deni Summer 2013
    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

    Stephen Blank Summer 2013
    President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on June 17, 2013. Responding to...

    Hitlerland

    Shoshana Bryen Summer 2013
    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...