Security & Defense

No, Senator, it’s not 90 percent.

By James Hasik

Senator John McCain of Arizona was rather tough on the administration’s nominee to be deputy defense secretary. The senator is simply incorrect about the concentration of supplier power in defense in the United States. The Pentagon’s five biggest supply accounts were awarded 27.8 percent of the gross value of its new contracts in 2014. None of these figures approach 90 percent.

Rose in War on the Rocks: Five Myths About a Controversial Nuclear Weapon

By Frank Rose

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The origins and evolution of ISIS in Libya

By Jason Pack, Rhiannon Smith, and Karim Mezran

For the past three decades, Libya has been a rich recruiting ground for the global jihad. Investigating the precursors and then subsequent evolution of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and other extremist actors throughout this period presents actionable insights into how jihadist actors coalesce; how they interfere in post-conflict state building; the […]

Corman Quoted in Engadget on Cyber Med Summit

By Joshua Corman

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Is imported aluminum a threat to American national security?

By James Hasik

Indeed, price is the point. Whether by Chinese mercantilism or Canadian hydropower, the price of raw aluminum in the US has dropped about 20 percent in the past four years, benefiting American producers of automobiles, aircraft, and those trendy-again beer cans. So how is that not good?

Biberman in Asian Security: Genocidal Violence, Nation-Building, and the Bloody Birth of Bangladesh

By Atlantic Council

Hruby in Financial Times: African Private Equity Must Rise to Job Creation Challenge

By Aubrey Hruby

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Nordenman in Defense One: At BALTOPS, It’s Back to Prepping for High-End Warfare

By Magnus Nordenman

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