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 […]
Real-World Intelligence Methods Focus of New Textbook
Promoting results-oriented intelligence approaches and emphasizing widely used analytical intelligence methods, CRC Press recently released the textbook Intelligence Analysis Fundamentals. The book focuses on understandable intelligence community concepts and approaches for those considering intelligence and/or law enforcement careers, but it’s also modifiable for instructors to apply to various course levels as a reinforcement tool. “[Intelligence […]
FDD Analyzes Russian Threat through Kaspersky Lab
Russia’s Kaspersky Lab illustrates how technological expertise paired with government cooperation can create a serious threat to U.S. national security, according to a recent report from Foundation for Defense of Democracies. In Kaspersky and Beyond: Understanding Russia’s Approach to Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare, author Boris Zilberman equates the threat to a new beachhead in cyber space […]
What is the National Guard Doing at the Border?
Brig. Gen. John Hoefert, Arizona’s Joint Task Force commander, was sitting in a meeting with Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan of U.S. Army North and Mexican military representatives on a Wednesday in early April. Such meetings were commonplace and nonpolitical, Hoefert told Homeland411, and were a great opportunity for information sharing and working through any border […]
Russia, China, Iran Under Microscope in New Book
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) explores the ascension of Russia, China, and Iran in its latest book, Rise of the Revisionists, a collection of essays that focuses on the ambitions of each country and how the United States might address their influence. Editor Gary J. Schmitt, a resident scholar at AEI, insists understanding their roots […]