by Secretary Chuck Hagel | Oct 13, 2014 | Monitor
The responsibility of the Department of Defense is the security of our country. That requires thinking ahead and planning for a wide range of contingencies. Among the future trends that will impact our national security is climate change. Rising global temperatures,...
by Maggie Feldman-Piltch | Sep 22, 2014 | Monitor
In a recent piece for HuffPost’s The Hill, former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs and ASP Consensus Member Tara Sonenshine discussed the public diplomacy value of NASA’s announcement of $8.6 billion in contracts to SpaceX...
by Lindsay Holst | Sep 11, 2014 | Monitor
Tonight, the following message was sent from President Obama to those signed up to receive updates from the White House, outlining his comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy to degrade and destroy ISIL. Didn't get the email? Make sure you're...
by zen | Aug 29, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] ISIS or the Islamic State “Caliphate” is the focus of a great deal of discussion and demands for action from the United States – and also inaction – from many quarters. What is to be done? That is...
by Marc Aidinoff, Cheri Caddy | Aug 20, 2014 | Monitor
Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the 2014 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Champions from the University of Central Florida, in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, in Washington, D.C., August 19, 2014. (Official White...