Missing in Action: A Plan to Win the War of Ideas

New Atlanticist
Nov 13, 2024

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

By
Dan Hart

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

National Security
United States and Canada

Missing in Action: A Plan to Win the War of Ideas

Future of DHS
Sep 26, 2024

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

By
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.

Migration
National Security

Missing in Action: A Plan to Win the War of Ideas

New Atlanticist
Sep 25, 2024

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

By
Kimberly Donovan, Maia Nikoladze

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

China
Economy & Business

Content

New Atlanticist

Sep 20, 2012

Missing in Action: A Plan to Win the War of Ideas

By Harlan Ullman

Last week’s violence in more than 20 Muslim countries with four Americans killed in Libya has been attributed to a highly offensive 13-minute video that went viral on YouTube igniting these protests.

Middle East
National Security

New Atlanticist

Sep 18, 2012

US-Mideast Policy Is Isolating America, Not Iran

By Sarwar Kashmeri

Two thirds of the U.N.’s countries recently signed a communique expressing support for Iran’s nuclear energy program and rejecting, what they termed, the United States’ unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic. A flashing red light that signals the American policy aimed at isolating Iran in order to curb its nuclear ambitions appears instead to have […]

International Organizations
Iran

New Atlanticist

Sep 7, 2012

Internal Conflicts and Defense Planning

By Derek Reveron

There are 27 active conflicts in the world today; only one of them is a traditional interstate war. 

Afghanistan
National Security

New Atlanticist

Sep 6, 2012

National Security and Defense: How Much and for What Purpose?

By Harlan Ullman

“How much is enough?” is a perennial question often put to national security and defense requirements. The largely invisible and more important extension of that question is understanding what purposes military force must serve in the first place. “For what” must be the starting point for any excursion on future military capability and where, why […]

National Security
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Sep 4, 2012

The Rise of Afghan Fratricide

By Joshua Foust

The number of ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) soldiers killed by their Afghan counterparts has risen precipitously this year. So-called “green on blue” attacks have killed 42 soldiers, more than the 35 killed last year and twice as many as were killed in 2010. Officials are scrambling to figure out why.

Afghanistan
International Security Assistance Force

New Atlanticist

Jul 31, 2012

The United States and the Moroccan Status Quo

By Alec Simantov

The Pentagon attracted quite a bit of attention recently when it announced new military assistance programs in controversial places like Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, raising questions about the balance between US national security interests and promotion of human rights and democracy.

National Security
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jul 2, 2012

Global Trends and International Security

By Derek Reveron

Understanding how the world works is key for developing a sound national security policy. The security environment provides the context for developing strategy and building forces to advance and defend national interests. At the same time, strategy shapes the security environment and is shaped by it. For example, a strategy that emphasizes global trade can […]

Economy & Business
National Security

Issue Brief

Mar 22, 2012

The transatlantic bargain after “the Pivot”

By Barry Pavel and Jeffrey Lightfoot

In the issue brief “The Transatlantic Bargain After ‘the Pivot’,” authors Barry Pavel, director of the Council’s International Security Program, and Jeff Lightfoot, program deputy director, argue that as the United States reassesses its defense priorities towards the Indo-Pacific region amid cutbacks on defense spending, European partners in NATO must take on a larger responsibility […]

Defense Policy
National Security

Issue Brief

Aug 12, 2010

Cyber Security: An Integrated Governmental Strategy for Progress

By Franklin D. Kramer

“Cyber Security: An Integrated Governmental Strategy for Progress,” authored by former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Atlantic Council Vice Chairman Franklin D. Kramer, lays out a whole of government approach that would ensure that the national security functions of the U.S. government can continue to operate while under cyber attack, establish […]

Cybersecurity
National Security

New Atlanticist

Dec 8, 2009

Chicago As a Terrorist Center

By James Joyner

Citing reports that a Chicago man has been arrested for helping to plan the Mumbia terror attacks, Bernard Finel snarks, “I guess we need a surge in Chicago, too?”

National Security
Security & Defense
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Max Brooks

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Crisis Management National Security

Staff

Eto Buziashvili

Research Fellow

Digital Forensic Research Lab

Disinformation Eastern Europe

Fellow

Michael Carpenter

Distinguished Fellow

Eurasia Center Europe Center

Eastern Europe National Security

Fellow

Deborah Cheverton

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Afghanistan Defense Industry

Fellow

Gavin Clough

2023-24 Senior US Navy Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Policy Eastern Europe

Fellow

Ariel Cohen

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

Central Asia Politics & Diplomacy
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