Reports
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Protecting the Protectors: Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violent Extremism in the Military, Veteran, and Law Enforcement Communities
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In recent years, the involvement of currently serving military members and law enforcement officers, as well as veterans of those two professions, in domestic violent extremis...
By Carrie Cordero, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Arona Baigal & Josh Campbell
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Beyond the L.A. Declaration on Migration and Development
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Over the last decade, the United States and other countries in the Western Hemisphere have encountered an evolving set of irregular migration events. During these events, a la...
By Cristobal Ramón
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The Coast Guard: “Always Ready,” Except for Change
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The Coast Guard motto, “Semper Paratus,” translates to “Always Ready.” While this is true in the Coast Guard’s everyday emergency response and operations, which provide great ...
By James Valentine
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From Mardi Gras to the Philippines: A Review of DHS Homeland Security Investigations
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As it approaches 20 years since its creation, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is due for substantial updates in order to improve its ability to adapt to current and ...
By Carrie Cordero & Katie Galgano
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Reassessing Homeland Security Intelligence
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The discipline of intelligence has been a central element of the homeland security enterprise over the past two decades since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The ...
By Christian Beckner
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The Department of Homeland Security: Priorities for Reform
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There is an opportunity to reform the Department of Homeland Security in a way that best protects the country from homeland security threats, consistent with law, security and...
By Carrie Cordero & Katie Galgano
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War Powers: What Are They Good For?
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Congressional aspirations to equal partnership in the conduct of American conflicts have long gone unsatisfied....
By Richard Fontaine, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Stephen Tankel
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Working Case Study: Congress’s Oversight of the Tongo Tongo, Niger, Ambush
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There was no question that U.S. forces under attack should be in a position to defend themselves. But the larger question was what sort of mission had placed them in this circ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Working Case Study: Congress and the Iraq Surge
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The intensive campaign employed by John McCain and his allies is an important case of how members of Congress can influence executive decisions on the conduct of military oper...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Working Case Study: Congressional Influence on the Decision to Intervene in Somalia
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, television news did not drive U.S. policy toward Somalia; U.S. lawmakers provided the impetus and credibility for coverage....
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Congress’s Hidden Strengths
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Introduction On matters of peace and war, virtually no one seems satisfied with Congress. Constitutionally coequal to the executive, the Congress often appears more an uneasy ...
By Richard Fontaine & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Intelligence Transparency and Foreign Threats to Elections
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The threat of malign foreign interference in the campaign season and election system looms....
By Carrie Cordero
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Reforming the Department of Homeland Security Through Enhanced Oversight & Accountability
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In a new report, Carrie Cordero outlines the pressures placed on DHS's immigration enforcement, border security, and law enforcement components....
By Carrie Cordero
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Rebooting Congressional Cybersecurity Oversight
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The current “patchwork” legal framework is ill suited to address cybersecurity questions either for legislative oversight or effective policymaking....
By Carrie Cordero & David Thaw
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Rising to the China Challenge
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The United States and China are locked in strategic competition over the future of the Indo-Pacific—the most populous, dynamic, and consequential region in the world....
By Ely Ratner, Daniel Kliman, Susanna V. Blume, Rush Doshi, Chris Dougherty, Richard Fontaine, Peter Harrell, Martijn Rasser, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Eric Sayers, Daleep Singh, Paul Scharre, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Neil Bhatiya, Ashley Feng, Joshua Fitt, Megan Lamberth, Kristine Lee & Ainikki Riikonen
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Enhancing Congressional Intelligence Committee Effectiveness
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In a new working paper, Carrie Cordero provides a fresh assessment regarding whether the intelligence committees in Congress need significant structural reforms, assesses whic...
By Carrie Cordero
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A Woman? No Way!
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Who would have known that my commissioning in the U.S. Army would lead me to such an unthinkable assignment? I arrived in the Middle East as a country engagement officer. Alth...
By Asha Castleberry
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The (Mostly) Good News on Women in Combat
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Three years ago this month, 19 women from across the Army made history by reporting to Fort Benning, Georgia, to become the first women to attend U.S. Army Ranger School. As t...
By Andrew Swick & Emma Moore
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Women are the Most Visible Servicemembers, and the Most Invisible Veterans
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One of the questions I’m most frequently asked when people find out I’m a veteran is, “But you didn’t go in harm’s way, did you?” I’ve been asked this question since I first j...
By Andrea N. Goldstein
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MENtors
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What do Joan of Arc and Eleanor Roosevelt have in common? They represent two of only 10 statues depicting women among the hundreds that grace the parks and squares of our nat...
By LTC Christina Bembenek
