by Ricky Gandhi | Nov 17, 2015 | Monitor
ASP CEO, BGen. Stephen A. Cheney was featured in National Defense Magazine. In it, he gave his thoughts regarding Russia’s military expansion in the Arctic, arguing that the actions serve more as defensive measures rather than offensive: Putin has revitalized...
by Ricky Gandhi | Nov 16, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads Why Closing Nuclear Power Plants is Short Sighted Christine Todd Whitman / The Wall Street Journal Low-carbon electricity matters more now than ever in light of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. Today, nuclear energy provides more...
by Ricky Gandhi | Nov 13, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads Kurdish forces seize Iraq’s Sinjar town from Islamic State Isabel Coles / Reuters Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by U.S. air strikes seized the Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State on Friday, a Reuters witness said, in one of the most significant...
by Ricky Gandhi | Nov 3, 2015 | Monitor
Climate change has had notable impacts on our environment and national security, serving as a “threat multiplier,” according to the Department of Defense. The argument goes that climate change can exacerbate existing conflict by making already-scarce resources ever...
by Ricky Gandhi | Oct 27, 2015 | Monitor
Todd D. Stern, the Special Envoy on Climate Change at the State Department and President Obama’s chief climate negotiator, testified on the economic and environmental impacts of the recent climate negotiations set to be finalized in Paris this December. The chairman...