Publications

The Cipher Brief There is one truth in terrorism that intelligence officials and national security experts have seen proven over the past few years: terrorist tactics are continuously evolving.  The Washington Post reported last month that the TSA is...

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has existed since 1978, but rarely does it prompt the sort of public attention it has received in the past several months. In part, this was an inevitable by-product of the reauthorization debate...

The Texas National Security Review In early September 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin brought artificial intelligence from the labs of Silicon Valley, academia, and the basement of the Pentagon to the forefront of international politics. “Artificial intelligence is the...

The Providence Journal President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — the Iran nuclear deal — has elicited the predictable responses from the usual suspects. President Obama says that President Trump’s decision undermines...

As both a statement of philosophical purpose and a legal expression of the American desire to separate from the British Empire, the Declaration of Independence was a crucial milestone in the development of the United States of America. Important...

When Americans discuss Russia’s economy, words such as corruption, kleptocracy, and petrostate dominate the conversation. These buzzwords miss the point. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Russia knows that the country is badly governed. But the interesting question...

The deed has been done to the deal: on Tuesday, as by now everyone above the age of about six knows, President Trump withdrew United States from the so-called Iran deal—formally the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Before...

Majalla Since Tsai Ing-wen was elected president of Taiwan in 2016, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has striven to undermine her in a number of ways: poaching Taiwan’s few remaining allies, opening new flight routes in the Taiwan Strait, preventing it from...

The Atlantic For decades, since the Iranian Revolution, the United States has engaged in a quasi-war with Tehran. Washington backed Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq War, described Iran as being part of an “axis of evil” alongside Iraq and...

The Hill Ever eager to fulfill a campaign promise to his base, Donald Trump has kept his word: he has announced that the United States would withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known by its cumbersome title, Joint...