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 […]
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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 […]