Descent into Hell: The Demise of Amerian Politics

New Atlanticist
Nov 13, 2024

The threat from wildfires is growing. The US needs a unified response.

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Dan Hart

Congress should create a modern, centralized wildfire intelligence system that can serve firefighters nationwide.

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Descent into Hell: The Demise of Amerian Politics

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Sep 26, 2024

The Secret Service needs a budget increase—but so does the rest of the Department of Homeland Security

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Thomas S. Warrick

On Wednesday, Congress passed a bill to increase Secret Service funding in response to threats, after two assassination attempts against Donald Trump. The same logic should apply to the overall DHS budget.

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Descent into Hell: The Demise of Amerian Politics

New Atlanticist
Sep 25, 2024

What the next administration should do to ensure US economic and national security

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Kimberly Donovan, Maia Nikoladze

The next administration must protect sensitive US technology, drive the energy transition, and safeguard the global financial system.

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New Atlanticist

Jan 31, 2013

Descent into Hell: The Demise of Amerian Politics

By Harlan Ullman

The Irish bon vivant Oscar Wilde naughtily observed that the reason the politics of academic life were so sharp was because the stakes were so small. In the United States today, politics are growing even sharper and nastier because the stakes are so huge.

National Security Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jan 29, 2013

Cyber Command Expanding Five Fold

By Jason Healey

Cyber Command will find great opportunities but face significant challenges as it expands from 900 cyber warriors to nearly 5000. Its predecessor started with just 25 people in 1998. So in one sense, this increase represents continuity, just another in a series of expansions. But the size of the increase, and the addition of a new mission, […]

Cybersecurity National Security

New Atlanticist

Jan 23, 2013

Obama Doctrine, Reagan Doctrine

By James Joyner

As his second term is about to begin, we may finally be seeing the emergence of an Obama Doctrine in foreign policy. It’s one that looks very much like the Reagan Doctrine.

National Security Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jan 22, 2013

Malgeria: Pause, Think, Plan, Act

By Julian Lindley-French

It is being called the “soft underbelly of Europe”, an entire sub-continent from the Maghreb to the Middle East that stretches down to the transitional zone between Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa known as the Sahel region and beyond to Nigeria.

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New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2013

Are Drones Really Working?

By Danya Greenfield

President Obama’s nomination of John Brennan, who currently serves as the White House Senior Advisor for Counterterrorism, should occasion a debate regarding how the United States can best confront, respond to, or mitigate our most pressing security challenges, including the current counterterrorism strategy. In particular, John Brennan’s nomination as CIA director should spur re-evaluation of […]

Drones National Security

New Atlanticist

Jan 17, 2013

Pivot Toward Pacific not Away from Middle East

By Aaron Burgstein

Since the announced “pivot” to the Pacific, much hand-wringing and consternation has focused on what it means for the United States’ security relationships with Europe.

Middle East National Security

New Atlanticist

Jan 15, 2013

Obama’s Team of Mentors and His Legacy

By Frederick Kempe

President Barack Obama has been commander-in-chief for four years, but the world only now will see the full flower of Obama foreign policy unfold. It likely will have less to do with any grand ambition to shape an increasingly dangerous world, and instead will be focused on avoiding new wars as he focuses on what […]

National Security Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jan 9, 2013

In Syria, War is the New Normal

By Rajan Menon

After 22 months of civil war, in which an estimated 60,000 people have died, Syrian President Bashar Assad gave a defiant speech Sunday that ruled out negotiations with rebel fighters and made clear that he intends to remain in power as long as possible. Assad’s words came as no great surprise. Seasoned diplomats, including former […]

National Security Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jan 8, 2013

Economic, Not Security Strategy, Key for Stability in South China Sea

By Philip Haxel

For all of its economic dynamism, the regional stability of the Asia-Pacific is increasingly threatened by conflicting claims over small rocks and archipelagos in the South China Sea. However trivial these disputes may appear, a breakout into physical conflict would have massive ramifications for the US economy, as each year 1.2 trillion dollars in US […]

Economy & Business Maritime Security

New Atlanticist

Jan 8, 2013

Saving Syria from Assad

By Julian Lindley-French

Syrian President Assad left little grounds for optimism in his 6 January ‘peace’ initiative. Clearly there can now be no peace with Assad but what will it take to get rid of him and what would happen if he went?

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