As we in the United States “celebrate” the tenth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan with a cost of several billion dollars a month for the military alone, I have become increasingly curious as to if and when the United States Government will finally decide that we must intelligently assess our role in this part of the world and move [...]
By Lee Hiromoto – Contrary to the pessimism of some, the Arab-Israeli peace process has come quite far since Israel won its independence in 1948. In 1967, the Arab League declared in the Khartoum Resolution that there would be “no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, [and] no negotiations with it.” The Palestinian National Charter of 1968 set out [...]
“Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed. ” ‘We came, we saw, he died,’ she joked when told of news reports of Qaddafi’s death by an aide in between formal interviews.” ―CBS News, October 20, 2011 “One of the most pathetic aspects of [...]
Twenty-five years ago this month President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, Iceland, at a summit that appears, in retrospect, to truly be the “turning point in the Cold War.”
By Evan Meyerson – On Friday, September 23, 2011, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas formally submitted a bid for full membership in the United Nations. By attempting to authorize Palestinian statehood through the U.N. rather than at the negotiating table, Abbas signaled an unprecedented move away from direct involvement by the United States in the high-level decision-making of the Middle East [...]
The Obama administration has publicly accused Iran of plotting to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador in Washington. Why?
By James Moxness – The full complexity, benefits, and costs of the regulatory state, especially as they relate to national security, are too infrequently discussed or appreciated publicly in the United States. It would come as a surprise to too many that environmental regulation places significant hedges on military—especially naval—training, spurring lawsuits (like Winter v. NRDC) that, at their foundation, [...]
Sir Daniel Bethlehem considers whether policy makers are asking themselves the right questions regarding out-of-theater targeting.
On September 30, a United States drone strike in northern Yemen killed Anwar al-Aulaqi, an influential and American-born member of al-Qaeda. Al-Aulaqi is believed to have inspired several successful and attempted terrorist attacks, including the Fort Hood shooting in 2009 and the Times Square bomb attempt in 2010. There is a great deal of debate about the legal and policy [...]
The National Security Journal is excited to announce a new feature. We have invited six experts in the field of national security to be regular bloggers on our website. Our first blogger, Professor Michael Glennon of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, has just posted the first entry in his blog. Visit his blog page to read his biography [...]
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