It is more stabilizing and better for national security that Congress is skeptical about where U.S. space leadership and space policy are headed. Let’s hope the responsible oversight demonstrated in the annual defense bill continues.
The U.S. government recently issued a national terrorism advisory, warning of heightened threats during the holidays — at the same time as federal agencies are experiencing a shortage of U.S.-bred dogs trained to detect explosives.
Members of Congress should focus on all forms of brain injuries sustained by service members, but especially on what are known as mild traumatic brains injuries.
The U.S. is lagging dangerously behind peer and near-peer competitors in the education of uniformed and civilian Department of Defense (DoD) workforce and our ability to identify and promote talent.
There is a big mismatch between the Biden administration’s new National Defense Strategy and its push for forces to be equipped for global campaigning and the current projections for the U.S. Navy. The conventional manned fleet, the combat logistics force and the developing unmanned side of the Navy all need additional support to meet the NDS’s campaigning requirements.
Pressure is mounting in Congress to update legislation that guides the use of defensive systems that protect against aerial drones. At present, the legislative framework underpinning the use of these systems needs major revision because it was formulated at a time before the widespread proliferation of drone technology.
A practical solution to disinformation must bring together experts from computer science with researchers in social and behavioral sciences, the humanities and user communities to develop strategies that “inoculate” users and empower them to protect themselves.
A growing domestic movement is seeking to gain power by discrediting, rigging and subverting the trusted procedures and mechanisms of America’s democratic self-governance. A group of experts at the University of Buffalo is helping to combat the threats by closely scrutinizing the existing legal treatment of speech and information and the media in which they appear.
The question of “how to deal with Iran” has been among the top foreign policy challenges for Washington for the past four decades. But with policies focused on Tehran’s nuclear threat and reckless attempts to empower imaginary Iranian “moderates,” Washington has failed to recognize – and strategize for – a revolution that has been long in the works.
We are in a street fight with a bully, and if we back down because of threats, Russia and others will continue to use them to extort what they want in the future.
