Tag: National Security

Border security is a national security concern. “Lara Logan Has No Agenda – Border Crisis” sheds light on the unspoken war facing the U.S.

Why doing away with the 2001 AUMF and limiting drone strike capabilities is a distraction from the real issues facing national security.

As concern over our National Security swirls, acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller has drawn a firm line in the sand.

Western models of spycraft are failing. Traditional models of spycraft seek to inform decision-making based on predictive analysis, but this is no longer effective in today’s environment. By nature, closed and authoritarian regimes, such as Russia and China, have an easier job of spying on their more progressive and open adversaries — the United States […]

On June 9, President Trump released the “Memorandum on Safeguarding U.S. Interests in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions.” The Memorandum flew mostly under the radar, yet it is indicative of increased U.S. interest in the polar regions and a response to the adverse power balance in the Arctic. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean […]

It might feel like we rolled into 2019 fifteen minutes ago; but here we are, already nearing the year’s close and facing down another rapidly approaching Christmas. In families like mine all over the country, people are going about their usual holiday traditions: putting up a tree, playing Christmas music and punching strangers over good […]

Recently, there has been an alarming number of professors who have been driven out of the academic community for expressing views that from a rational perspective, are moderate at worst and beneficial at best. At Evergreen University, Brett Weinstein was effectively forced to resign by a militant minority for refusing to take part in their […]

Last week, the United States Navy released industry solicitations for their new conceptual large unmanned surface vehicles (LUSV), as they begin the hunt for the right ship builder to assemble a fleet of ten of these large drone ships. Building off the successes the Navy and DARPA have had with their autonomous Sea Hunter drone […]

Four F-35A Lightning IIs assigned to the 4th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron taxi after landing at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, April 15, 2019. The F-35A Lightning II is deployed to the U.S. Air Forces Central Command area of responsibility for the first time in U.S. Air Forces history. (U.S. Air Force photo by […]

A Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) prepares to enter the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD-1) in the Philippine Sea, April 17, 2019. Wasp, flagship of the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, is operating in the Indo-Pacific region to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response force for any type […]

U.S. sailors from the Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Department’s jet shop perform a jet engine test cell on an F/A-18 Super Hornet engine on the fantail aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Atlantic Ocean, April 14, 2019. Ike is underway conducting flight deck certification during the basic phase of the […]

A picture taken on April 16, 2019 shows the altar surrounded by charred debris inside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in the aftermath of a fire that devastated the historic cathedral. French investigators probing the devastating blaze on April 15 questioned workers who were renovating the monument, as hundreds of millions of euros were pledged […]