by Tobias Burns | Apr 23, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry placed the issue of U.S. trade agreements firmly in a national security context Thursday, saying two pending trade deals demonstrate how U.S. economic and national security interests are one and the same. “In our era, the...
by Megan K. Rauch | Apr 23, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Nearly nineteen thousand—18,900 to be exact—U.S. servicemen and women were sexually assaulted last year. “That’s 18,900 too many,” according to Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. “Even though sexual assault is a disgrace in any form and happens too often...
by Andersen Xia | Apr 23, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The lawyer for a Pakistani woman who was the first female terrorist suspect after the 9/11 attacks is demanding evidence that she is still alive at a federal prison in Texas, despite prison officials’ assertion that she is. Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S.-trained...
by Mary Cirincione | Apr 23, 2015 | National Security
It took three years for the Federal Aviation Administration to come up with a proposal for how to regulate drones. But it took only about a month after the recommended framework was released for privacy activists to sue. Noticeably missing from the recommendations...
by Tobias Burns | Apr 22, 2015 | National Security, Topics
As the number of terrorist groups around the world increases, so do the ways in which they’re raising money to fund their activities, experts say. “The funding is more global and more diversified than ever before, and it’s interacting less with the...
by Matthew L. Schehl | Apr 16, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON—With smoke still clearing from Iraq’s victory over the Islamic State group in Tikrit, Iraq’s prime minister is busy selling his post-conflict vision of his nation. “If we don’t decentralize, the country will disintegrate,”...
