From In Homeland Security Despite several strategies to eradicate domestic cocaine production, Colombia continues to struggle with the massive amount of drugs that are cultivated and manufactured within its borders. Government control measures include the arrest of major drug lords and the dismantling of their cartels, as well as the prosecution of corrupt politicians and […]
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Perspective: Family Terror Connections Foster Radicalization
Family terror networks—or alternatively, family-affiliated terrorism—involve two or more people from the same clan who support the threat or use of terrorism. Kin terrorism has appeared across diverse views from religiously motivated precepts to national liberation, and from hate-based ideologies to other viewpoints. Family structures enable higher instances of conversion to radical beliefs given the […]
Escalating Tension Between Iran and Israel
ran has used the Syrian civil war to expand its footprint throughout the Levant, while Israel pushes back. On January 20 and 21, Israel and Iran launched attacks against each other. Israel struck Iranian targets in Syria near the Damascus airport, while Iran launched a medium-range missile into the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.
Trump Announces Missile Defense Policy Changes
Changes Include Ground-Based, Technological, Space Force Enhancements President Donald Trump announced six changes to the country’s missile defense policy in an address at the Pentagon Jan. 17. The changes include ground-based defense, new technology, a homeland missile protection strategy, space systems, eliminating bureaucracy, and financial support from countries who receive U.S. protection. “All over, foreign […]
CRB: Moral Ambiguity and National Security
From Claremont Review of Books online The Book of Proverbs instructs us that “by stratagems you wage war.” Israeli intelligence agencies have taken this ancient wisdom to heart—the Mossad even chose it as a motto. The Mossad, along with its counterparts in military intelligence (AMAN) and domestic enforcement (the Shin Bet), has attained legendary status for […]
Bookshelf: Solzhenitsyn’s Western Reservations
From First Things The first volume of Solzhenitsyn’s memoir of exile, Between Two Millstones, begins with the author’s expulsion from the Soviet Union and closes with him viewing the landscape from his Vermont home and thinking about Russia. Intellectually, this period begins with the publication of his Letter to the Soviet Leaders, which had been written before his […]
Syria Withdrawal and Impact on U.S. and Allies
From In Homeland Security A mere six days after President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria, Israel initiated an air strike near Damascus that targeted Iranian and Hezbollah missile locations. Whether Trump’s announcement played any role in the Israeli decision to strike the missile storage site is unknown. Although Israel has struck […]
Perspective: Brexit’s Impact on Worldwide Cybersecurity
From WAR ROOM—Online Journal of the U.S. Army War College Cybersecurity experts have long focused on protecting the information and networks of individuals and organizations. Now in addition to that never-ending task, they must also devote attention to organizational arrangements threatened by the political trend of multi-national rejectionism, such as the British exit—“Brexit”—from the European Union […]
Critics: N.J. Gun Control Laws Disarm Off-Duty Officers
New Jersey police officers are no longer allowed to carry ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds when off duty. Signed into law in June by Gov. Phil Murphy, the restrictions—for all gun owners in the state—took effect last week. A federal court ruled the law constitutional in October, but gun rights groups are […]
IG Report: CBP Wasting Millions on Hiring Contract
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has spent millions in the past year to contract a firm to hire thousands of Border Patrol and other agents, but the process has come up extremely short, according to a report from the DHS Office of the Inspector General (IG). Customs and Border Protection (CBP) contracted Accenture in […]