Research and development continues to be a national priority for the UK government as part of its long-term strategy to increase innovation and skills within technology and knowledge-based ...Read more >

Major trends in global terrorism in 2014 included the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL’s) unprecedented seizure of territory in Iraq and Syria, the continued flow of foreign terrorist fighters worldwide to ...Read more >

Americans are reluctant to accept terrorism is part of their daily lives, but attacks have been planned or attempted against American targets (usually airliners or urban areas) almost every year since ...Read more >

Airpower is and long has been the sharpest of America’s swords, as well as a highly versatile set of tools for the support of national strategy— both grand and of course ...Read more >

Veterans and military families increasingly report that the public does not understand their sacrifices. Leaders have an important duty and opportunity to reach out and get to know this group of citizens, voters, and ...Read more >

Climate change has entered the mainstream as a potential threat to U.S. national security. The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, and the 2010 National Security Strategy all identify climate change as likely to trigger outcomes that will threaten U.S. security. These assessments have had to rely on projections of climate change tuned to identify impacts over roughly a one-century time ...Read more >

The term aid to civil authorities (ACA) is a British imperial usage referring to the process by which local authorities can request the central government to lend assistance in times of emergency. Before independence, dealing with internal security was an important task of the ...Read more >

RANDs progress in dealing with uncertainty analysis for national security has benefited from a confluence of developments in four domains, as indicated in Figure S.1. Most familiar perhaps is technology: modern computers and software allow analysis that would have been inconceivable in the early days of systems and policy analysis, such as examining a vast possibility space when considering options for the way ...Read more >

A key factor in the failure of the intelligence community is the resistance to information sharing. Organizational culture is an essential link in understanding the resistance to information sharing. Using Edgar Scheins organizational culture model, this paper analyzes the organizational culture of the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation with an eye toward how those cultures impact information ...Read more >

The paper intends to examine the internal security threats owing to caste/class rivalries, terrorist and insurgent outfits in different regions of India. It also marks the intra-regional variations in nature, preferences, causes and intensities of these problems. It further examines the contemporary politics, political malpractices and administrative in-efficiency of the state ...Read more >

India’s internal security remains a major area of concern. In the years following our independence, the Indian government focussed its energies mainly on the maintenance of law and order, communal peace and harmony, crime control and counter-insurgency, which was mainly confined to the northeast in the early years.However, in the past five decades or so, the ongoing insurgency in the northeast, the extinguished insurgency in Punjab, the dissidence and proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) the ...Read more >

Understanding the characteristics and capabilities of armed UAVs will be critical to making future policy choices. The complexity and expense of long-range armed UAVs are quite different from short-range systems, which make them difficult to develop and even to ...Read more >

The views expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, the Department of ...Read more >

The United States faces a complex array of challenges to its national security. Technology is an essential element of the U.S. strategy for meeting those challenges, and it continues to be U.S. policy to seek technological military superiority over U.S. ...Read more >

The waterways of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region) are among the most important in the world. They facilitate the export of large volumes of oil and natural gas from the region, while also bridging traders in the Eastern and Western worlds through the Red Sea and Suez ...Read more >