Category: The Forum
297 Articles
- Defense
The Case for U.S. Homeland Ballistic Missile Defense Against North Korea
The United States has long maintained that it can defend the homeland against limited North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) strikes. The 2022 Missile…
May 2, 2024
- Sub-Saharan Africa
Remembering a Forgotten War: United States Policy Options to Resolve Sudan’s Civil War
Wars have dominated this year’s election news cycle, with the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza featuring prominently in President Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address. In…
May 1, 2024
- East Asia & Indo-Pacific
- Environment and Biosecurity
A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Afghanistan
The unrecognized Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is experiencing its first period of peace in nearly fifty years. The Taliban-run state now must balance its desire for good…
April 30, 2024
- Technology
- Terrorism & Transnational Threats
Surging Violence and Far-Right Extremism: Unpacking Social Media’s Role in the 2024 Election
Across the Western world, right-wing political movements are on the rise. In the United States, this has manifested in an uptick of far-right extremist activity on the fringes of…
April 25, 2024
- Europe & Central Asia
- Race & Security
Why the Armenians of Artsakh Surrendered: Takeaways from Interviews with Refugees
As the war between Russia and Ukraine rages on, another longstanding conflict simultaneously flared up unnoticed. After a 10-month siege that held the Armenians of Nagorno…
April 19, 2024
- Defense
- Technology
From Sling and Stone to Autonomous Drone? Key Questions for Determining Whether Autonomy Favors Davids or Goliaths
Suppose that the year is 2035 and America is engaged in counterinsurgency operations in the Middle East: would autonomous drones favor the insurgents or counterinsurgents?…
April 17, 2024
- Race & Security
The Great Replacement Theory and Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists
In February, a convoy of trucks calling themselves “Take our border back” traveled from Virginia to the Texas-Mexico border to show support for the Texas government in…
April 16, 2024
- Sub-Saharan Africa
The End of MINUSMA: Russia Competes with the UN for Global Influence
In late December 2023, the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, finalized its withdrawal from the country after over a decade on the ground. Its exodus came after…
April 12, 2024
- Race & Security
- The Americas
Seeing the Other: Looking Beyond the Politics at the Southwest Border
The Southwest land border, also known as the United States-Mexico border, has been at the forefront of national political attention. Republican leaders have called out Democrats,…
April 11, 2024
- Environment and Biosecurity
Pyrophobia: Confronting a National Resistance to Proactive Fire Use
“You can’t fireproof the forest,” John Gould, former smokejumper and manager of the Alaska Fire Service, told me. There is simply too much land to manage and not enough people to…
April 10, 2024