No academic curriculum can adequately replicate actual combat experience in preparing for the proverbial “fog of war,” but an ash-leaden haze of eye-stinging, lung-clogging smoke could offer a good and sooty semblance of battlefield murk. That must have been the National Defense University’s (NDU) thinking when it refused to move its June 8 graduation ceremony…
Pentagon Chief Tells National Defense University Graduates, ‘The World Needs Your Leadership’
LIVE NOW: Fireside Chat With Sen. Reed: A Virtual Event by the Center for a New American Security
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, speaks about his priorities for the Department of Defense with Dr. Stacie Pettyjohn, senior fellow and director of the Center for a New American Security Defense Program, at 3:00 p.m. ET on April 24. The conversation will cover issues including the challenge posed by…
Fireside Chat With Sen. Reed: A Virtual Event by the Center for a New American Security
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, speaks about his priorities for the Department of Defense with Dr. Stacie Pettyjohn, senior fellow and director of the Center for a New American Security Defense Program, at 3:00 p.m. ET on April 24. The conversation will cover issues including the challenge posed by…
Is America’s Foreign Intelligence Service Interfering in US Elections?
Over the last decade, the U.S. government has turned its attention from hostile foreign actors to ordinary American citizens. It’s the assault on our constitutional rights that threatens to turn a beacon of democracy into a third-world security regime. And in the middle of this “whole of society” approach to censorship, surveillance, and propaganda is…
[PREMIERING at 10AM ET] Is America’s Foreign Intelligence Service Interfering in US Elections?
Over the last decade, the U.S. government has turned its attention from hostile foreign actors to ordinary American citizens. It’s the assault on our constitutional rights that threatens to turn a beacon of democracy into a third-world security regime. And in the middle of this “whole of society” approach to censorship, surveillance, and propaganda is…
FAA Closes Some Airspace Above Montana, Citing ‘National Defense’
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in an update late on Saturday that it has closed some airspace in Montana for Defense Department activities. The temporary flight restriction from the FAA was issued for flights in an area about 50 by 50 nautical miles above Havre, Montana, near the Canadian border. The notice reclassified…
NORAD Conducts ‘National Defense’ Operation Over Montana After Detecting Radar Anomaly
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) closed some airspace in Montana on Saturday night for Defense Department activities. The temporary flight restriction from the FAA was issued for flights in an area about 50 by 50 nautical miles above Havre, Montana, near the Canadian border, the agency said. The notice reclassified the area as “national…
LIVE NOW: Canadian Defense and Innovation Ministers Discuss National Security and Economic Prosperity
Canada’s Minister of National Defence Anita Anand, and Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry François-Philippe Champagne, will discuss Canada’s plan to innovate in national security, defense, and space, in the face of global threats and strategic competition at 9:30 a.m. ET on Feb. 10 in an armchair discussion held by Wilson Center Canada Institute. Christopher…
Canadian Defense and Innovation Ministers Discuss National Security and Economic Prosperity
Canada’s Minister of National Defence Anita Anand, and Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry François-Philippe Champagne, will discuss Canada’s plan to innovate in national security, defense, and space, in the face of global threats and strategic competition at 9:30 a.m. ET on Feb. 10 in an armchair discussion held by Wilson Center Canada Institute. Christopher…
Nearly 4,500 Canadian Armed Forces Members, Families Waiting for Military Housing
The Department of National Defence says thousands of Canadian Armed Forces members and their families are waiting for military housing. New figures provided to the Canadian Press show nearly 4,500 Armed Forces members and their families were on a Canadian Forces Housing Agency waitlist in July. The Defence Department has about 12,000 military housing units…
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