Security & Defense

Alliances and American Power in the 21st Century

By Joseph S. Nye Jr., Washington Post

From Joseph S. Nye Jr., Washington Post:   [G]iven our energy resources, the U.S. economy will be less vulnerable than the Chinese economy to external shocks.

How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe

By Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Fidelius Schmid, Holger Stark and Jonathan Stock, Spiegel

Ich Bin Ein Westerner

By Julian Lindley-French

“Ich bin ein Berliner.” Fifty years ago this week President Kennedy made his famous defiant assertion of Western solidarity at the strategic fault line of the Berlin Wall.  What today is the state of the West? Kennedy’s moment has passed into strategic folklore.  However, perhaps more enduring was a speech he made the next day in Frankfurt.  Responding […]

Senators Seek Study on Risk of Cyber Attacks Against Missile Defense Systems

By Global Security Newswire

From Global Security Newswire:  The Senate Armed Services Committee wants the Defense Department to undertake an audit of its missile defense systems to see what, if any, technologies are vulnerable to cyber strikes, Inside Defense reported on Tuesday.

Too Many Archdukes, Too Many Bullets

By Harlan Ullman

Ninety-nine years ago this Friday, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his pregnant wife Sofia were gunned down in Sarajevo by a 19-year old Bosnian Serb nationalist named Gavrilo Princip. The assassinations quickly provoked a crisis that more quickly erupted into world war. Ironically, many of the elites in Europe believed that an early 20th-century version of […]

NATO’s Multinational Command in the US Celebrates 10th Anniversary

By Dianna Cahn, Virginian-Pilot

From Dianna Cahn, Virginian-Pilot:  Today, [Gen. Jean-Paul] Paloméros sees global threats through the reverse lens – as leader of the international command that brings the 28 NATO nations together and ensures that they are prepared to respond rapidly to any future crisis.