In his newest book, Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917 - 1947, Bruce Hoffman, the director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, provides a landmark history of the battles that led to the creation of Israel. Based on newly available documents from Britain's National Archives, Anonymous Soldiers re-creates a crucial period in the establishment of Israel, chronicling three decades of growing anti-colonial unrest that culminated in the end of British rule and the U.N.
Drones are the iconic military technology of today's most pressing conflicts. They have captured the public imagination, partly because they project lethal force in a manner that challenges accepted norms and moral understandings.
Panelists talked about Iran's nuclear proliferation ambitions. All agreed Iran's nuclear program is a serious threat to the U.S. and the region. David Albright, founder of the Institute for Science and International Security, said Iran would be inclined to build nuclear bombs if they had the technical capability.
In addition to featuring keynote remarks by Admiral Mike Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency, this event will convene experts and practitioners from the public and private sector, military, media, academia, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations for a series of discussion panels and first person "pop-up" style speeches on the wide range of cybersecurity issues that are affecting and infecting everything from personal devices and corporate networks to national defense and international affairs.
In June 2014, ISIS seized Mosul, the anchor of northern Iraq and home to more than two million. Twelve days before the city fell, President Obama speaking at West Point failed to mention ISIS at all, having earlier dismissed them as a "jayvee team." What happened? How could the President so misjudge things? Can we recover from this? What does a coherent strategy look like after this disastrous year? In his essay "Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State," published in Quarterly Essay (Australia), Dr.
The US Department of Defense (DOD) has recently release a new Cyber Strategy, which provides the rationale for the DOD's establishment of 133 Cyber Mission Team coordinated by a growing Cyber Command. Experts and government officials alike regularly point to the disruptive nature of new information technology and the potential for cyber conflict to transform warfare. But what changes are happening in practice? What is the actual impact that cyber conflict will have on international relations? Is that dialogue about cyber conflict in line with the reality?
The First Annual Future of War Conference brings together a diverse, interdisciplinary collection of experts to discuss the profound social, political, economic, and cultural implications of the changing nature of war and conflict.
Over the past three years, popular political protests in Syria led to mass state repression and the country's descent into a devastating civil war. Over 190,000 people have been killed, countless more injured, and entire towns demolished. Nearly half of Syria's 22 million people had fled their homes, either as refugees or internally displaced persons. The human cost of this conflict is extraordinary and the world's great powers remain divided on coordinated international action, even as the situation has expanded to become a major regional conflict.
For some time, public U.S.
The First Annual Future of War Conference brings together a diverse, interdisciplinary collection of experts to discuss the profound social, political, economic, and cultural implications of the changing nature of war and conflict.
With the U.S. withdrawing from Afghanistan and a new Afghan government having assumed power, what kind of future do Afghan women face? In her new book, Contested Terrain: Reflections with Afghan Women Leaders, Sally L. Kitch explores the crisis in contemporary Afghan women's lives by focusing on the stories of Judge Marzia Basel and Ms. Jamila Afghani from 2005 through 2014, providing an oft-ignored perspective on the personal and professional lives of Afghanistan's women.
Featuring Dr. Sally L.