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Selling “New START”
By Christopher A. Ford, Hudson InstituteBriefing Paper, 08/26/2010
Assuming that the Senate is not simply to reject the Treaty, what could it do to help make the deal, with all its weaknesses, acceptable?
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Cyber Security: A Complex “Web” of Problems
By Paul Rosenzweig, The Heritage FoundationWebMemo, 08/26/2010
Today, as it pertains to cyber security, America still needs clearer lines of authority within the federal government and a more coherent structure of public–private interaction to allow for effective action. That structure should provide for greater and more effective control and coordination of the federal effort. Though current cyber coordinator Howard Schmidt has begun well, he should become a cyber leader with more directive authority.
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More Than Lip Service: Why Private Sector Engagement Is Essential
By Jena Baker McNeill, The Heritage FoundationWebMemo, 08/25/2010
Perhaps one of the most significant lessons learned from recent U.S. disasters is that the private sector is a critical actor in the homeland security enterprise. Time and again, from the attacks of September 11 to Hurricane Katrina—and even recently with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill—the private sector has been at the forefront of relief and recovery operations. The private sector’s indispensable role begs for the federal government to form solid bonds with industry. These relationships not only promote security innovations but allow these new developments to be plugged directly into disaster response efforts. Consequently, Congress and DHS should ensure that private sector relationships are well incorporated into future homeland security policymaking.
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New Technologies, Future Weapons: Gene Sequencing and Synthetic Biology
By Ethel Machi, Jena Baker McNeill, The Heritage FoundationWebMemo, 08/24/2010
The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission has emphasized the need for a “bio-specific strategy” in terms of preventing acts of bioterrorism. The U.S., however, has significant work to do in terms of developing this strategy in a way that is representative of the risk of bioterrorism, respects legitimate uses of biological agents, and prepares the nation if such a disaster strikes.
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Getting the Small-Boat Threat Right
By Jena Baker McNeill, The Heritage FoundationWebMemo, 08/24/2010
Suggesting that the primary risk to U.S. national security lies with the millions of American pleasure boaters is the wrong way to approach the small-boat challenge. Not only would placing the assumption of guilt on boaters be largely ineffective; it would have a potentially disastrous financial impact—not only on boaters but on boat builders and the entire boating industry as well. Nevertheless, these are the areas where legislative solutions have often centered. The true solution should come from working with the maritime community, enhancing already inherent organizational structures, and educating those who know the waters best. These solutions should increase the security of the overall maritime domain while preserving the economy and civil liberties.
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How to Defeat the Drug Lords at Last
By Donald C. Chipman, Hoover InstitutionHoover Digest, 08/09/2010
U.S. state-strengthening efforts in Mexico need to be expanded in order to cut cartel revenue, reduce violence, and restore the rule of law. The United States can, and should, focus on the demand side of the drug equation by examining all options from harsher punishment to legalization. The United States also should work to reduce arms trafficking into Mexico. But the most meaningful assistance we can provide would resemble that of Plan Colombia: a combination of intelligence-gathering and -sharing efforts for counterterrorism and anti-crime purposes as well as military and technical assistance for counternarcotics operations such as border interdiction.
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The Nuke in the Cargo Hold
By Justin Muzinich, Hoover InstitutionPolicy Review, 08/03/2010
Since beginning to monitor incidents of nuclear trafficking in 1995, the International Atomic Energy Agency has documented at least 196 instances of illegal trafficking, including at least 18 that involved weapons-grade, highly enriched uranium and plutonium, the primary fuel of nuclear weapons. Given these statistics, one might have expected international law to become much less hospitable to nuclear traffickers after terrorists made their intentions clear on September 11. Yet the nonproliferation regime in some ways looks very much like it did before the towers fell, providing surprisingly little room to combat the spread of nuclear weapons. If this sounds counterintuitive, it is for good reason. The UN has often made pronouncements denouncing proliferation. However when it comes to a crucially important component of nonproliferation — physically stopping the transport of prohibited material — international law generally precludes action in international waters. The U.S. and Spain understood this, which explains the treatment of the North Korean ships.
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Expand NORAD to Improve Security in North America
By James Carafano, et al., The Heritage FoundationBackgrounder, 07/27/2010
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is a binational American and Canadian military command that provides aerospace and maritime warning for North America. The US and Canada should invite Mexico to join NORAD. Including Mexico in NORAD is just the beginning of a better multinational effort to make North America safer and more secure. Making NORAD an effective instrument will require more than just adding another member. Effective teamwork will require more training and information sharing. Only through mutual cooperation, enhanced understanding, and increased flexibility can NORAD keep North America safe in the 21st century.
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Nuclear Games II: An Exercise in Examining the Dynamic of Missile Defenses and Arms Control in a Proliferated World
By Nuclear Stability Working Group, The Heritage FoundationSpecial Report, 07/27/2010
An effective ballistic missile defense will necessarily account for the ongoing proliferation of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile delivery systems. A Heritage Foundation study tests the hypothesis that ballistic missile defenses will impede attempts at offensive arms reductions in a setting in which seven “players” possess ballistic missile armed with nuclear warheads. It suggests not only that defenses will not undermine arms control in this setting, but also that they can make a positive contribution to the arms control process.
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The Making of the Christmas Day Bomber
By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Jacob Amis, Hudson InstituteCurrent Trends in Islamist Ideology, 07/26/2010
Like many of his predecessors, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the “Christmas Day Bomber,” left behind a personal testimony. His was not a scripted “martyrdom video,” but a series of online postings written over the course of two years. They relate a dramatic journey, born of a web of influences. Within a few months of his first Internet writings, Abdulmutallab, already flushed with Salafist religiosity, encountered the highly politicized Islam that is prevalent on the British university campus. The organizations and institutions with which he interacted, as a member and then president of University College London’s Islamic Society, openly promulgated a radical worldview: the “War on Terror” is in fact a “War on Islam,” resisted by the freedom fighters of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Taliban, in a valiant defensive jihad. For some, this heroic mantle could extend, with only subtle qualification, to the offensive jihad of al-Qaeda.
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Make America Safer By Making Government Smaller
By Lawrence W. ReedDecember 09, 2004
Few Americans would argue with the proposition that the most critical, indeed the most indispensable, duty of the federal government is to protect the American people from foreign attack. If it loses your mail or forgets to feed the elephants at the National Zoo, we’ll manage to get by. But...
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President Reagan and Missile Defense: The Realization of a Vision
By Baker SpringApril 01, 2003
“What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter…attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?” Exactly 20 years ago today, President...
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A Defense Agenda for 21st-Century Warfare
By Jack SpencerSeptember 01, 2001
On September 11, America suffered a deliberate and coordinated attack on its soil. Despite numerous warnings that terrorists could attack the U.S. homeland and significant increases in counterterrorism spending during the last Administration, the hijacking and commandeering of U.S. civilian planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center exposed...
