In January 2013, President Obama signed the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that included a provision to return authority to the President to determine proper export…
On January 7, President Obama nominated his long-time supporter and two-term GOP senator from Nebraska, Chuck Hagel, to succeed Leon Panetta as the Secretary of Defense. The nomination has aroused…
Not Obama. Not Romney. Nor Biden, nor Ryan. Ron Paul was the only politician to talk about the need to transform American drug policy in the most recent election cycle.
Over the past few weeks, a great deal has been written concerning the use of drones (UAVs) by the American military in theaters including, but not limited to, Yemen, Afghanistan,…
People grow weary of the endless clichés about how inter-connected the world has become. The observation of globalization has become pervasive to the point of irrelevance. Yet behind the clichés…
This paper examines three initiatives that the United States government is currently implementing or considering in response to Chinese Internet censorship. The first initiative, primarily sponsored by the State Department,…
On January 29, the U.S. Senate confirmed Sen. John Kerry as Secretary of State, the seat that Hillary Clinton will vacate this year. During the confirmation process, Kerry made some…
On January 25th, Marine General James Mattis, the commander of CENTCOM (Central Command), was fired by President Obama. Mattis’s dismissal warrants attention not only because media pundits and…
As the presidential term that saw Osama bin Laden’s demise comes to a close, it’s worth asking where American security policy goes from here. The United States has pulled combat…
Former Soviet prisoner and refusenik Natan Sharansky, Burmese human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi, and Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani are some of the many people across the globe who…
