by Ricky Gandhi | Oct 5, 2015 | Monitor
This December, countries from around the world will meet in Paris to develop an international climate agreement that will attempt to cap warming at 2˚C – the threshold scientists have warned us not to cross. The United States should lead the way in climate...
by Ngoc H. Le | Sep 24, 2015 | Monitor
Report Panel I Lessons from the OPM hack https://s3.amazonaws.com/ASP-Podcasts/Cyber%20Security%20-%20Panel%201%20OPM%20Hack.mp3 The first panel of the afternoon discussed the ‘lessons learned’ from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach. In June...
by zen | Sep 24, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command by Sean Naylor I just received a courtesy review copy of Relentless Strike from John at St. Martin’s Press. Increasingly viewed as a...
by Andrew Holland | Sep 1, 2015 | Monitor
The Arctic is now at the center of world affairs. What was once a frozen ocean, closed to all but the most intrepid explorers, is now a venue for oil and mineral exploration, cargo transit, and even tourism. President Obama’s visit to Alaska for the GLACIER...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 16, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — what hipbone thinking / gaming could and should bring to the natsec table ] . I have just been browsing the Institute for the Study of War‘s report on its ISIS wargame, and thought I’d wargame ISIS a bit myself, using my...
