By: Dale Ton In January, a Russian Air Force fighter jet intercepted a U.S. Navy surveillance plane over the Black Sea. During the...

By: Amanda Swietlik The production and trafficking of narcotics, including opium and heroin, have long been major sources of revenue for...

By: Ammar Hussain On January 27, 2017, seven days after taking office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed to bar...

By: Rachel Bauer In a referendum on September 25, 2017, approximately 92% of the 3.3 million Kurds and non-Kurds in northern Iraq voted...

By: Irving Vidal Terrazas Over the last eighteen months, the long lasting stable relationship between Mexico and the United States (U.S.)...

By Lauren Stimpert Since at least 2015, China has been constructing a series of artificial islands, including building on Mischief Reef...

By Joseph R. Epstein The 2017 threat assessment from the Director of National Intelligence labeled Russia, China, Iran, and The...

By Maximilian Raileanu Article V of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security states that “Each Party recognizes that an armed attack...

By James Feeney Less than a month after the deadly terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the United States launched its first-ever...

By Prescott Heighton Freedom of the seas and their safe navigation has been a fundamental principle of American international relations...

By Joshua Arons In a disappointing turn of events, Donald Trump, the recently elected President of the United States could ban Muslims or...

By Amanda Leonard In an August 2016 speech on terrorism, President-elect Donald Trump stated that the “era of nation-building will be...

Written by Ayan Islam The U.S. and Cuba share a distinct commonality that cannot be denied – the pursuit to maintain their respective...

President Obama recently released the White House’s Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) last Tuesday.[1] After a hacker released a...

Tensions have been raised again this month on the Korean peninsula. Despite the report that U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s plan to...

Under the authority of the Goldwater-Nichols Act, President Obama’s recently updated National Security Strategy may incite a color...

Homegrown militants have become a major threat for European countries. Europe’s police organization Europol estimates that up to 5,000...

By Will Richmond The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the most important military alliance in the World. It underpins U.S....

Iran’s nuclear weapons program is inextricably linked to the national security of the United States.  The program first came under...

The recent conflict in Ukraine has brought to light the very real and increasing presence of Russia in its previous satellite states....