ASP Senior Fellow Dr. Evelyn Farkas was featured yesterday on CNN’s American Morning and MSNBC talking about North Korea and how to confront the challenges it presents given the recent missile tests conducted by the regime there.
See the MSNBC Segment here:

And the CNN Segment here:

When we think about protecting our national security, we generally are talking about protecting our physical property, our lives, our economy (or livelihood), and our way of life (including our political institutions and independence).  Anything that threatens one or more of these things can reasonably be declared a threat to our national security.
By this measure, [...]

ASP Senior Fellow Evelyn Farkas posted a compelling essay on thestimulist.com in which she argues that the United States–and the international community–have to respond vigorously to North Korea’s nuclear test.
She writes:
Over the last few weeks Pyongyang has tested long- and short-range missiles—purposefully choosing Memorial Day to show off its arsenal—and issued belligerent warnings about “a powerful [...]

I’ve written about this before, but this is a good time to revisit the issue.  From today’s NYT: 1 in 7 Freed Detainees Rejoins Fight, Report Foun:
An unreleased Pentagon report provides new details concluding that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has [...]

In ASP’s recent “Are We Winning” interim report, Somalia was highlighted as a growing “hot spot” for Islamic terror, along with Russia, the Phillipines, and Pakistan.
Yesterday, CNN and other outlets reported that all Qaeda affiliated Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabab seized Jowhar, a city southeast of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
From the article:
The town had been under [...]

The firing of General McKiernan in Afghanistan and his replacement with General McChrystal has prompted some interested debate and discussion. Three of the arguments that emerged are of particular interest and deserve further comment.
First, posting at Foreign Policy, analyst Kori Schake argues provocatively that “McKiernan may become the General Shinseki of Afghanistan.” She [...]

Andrew Sullivan approvingly quotes an essay by Professor Manan Ahmed that attacks the claim that Pakistan is a failed state.
It is a peculiar argument, in large part because very few people actually do consider Pakistan a failed state. That said, it is unclear what most people really do fear is likely to happen in [...]

In a Senate hearing on torture today, former FBI Special Agent and Abu Zubaydah interrogator Ali Soufan decried so-called “enhanced interrogation” techniques used against detainees, calling them less effective than traditional methods of information gathering.
From CNN:
Soufan, who was involved in the interrogation of CIA detainee Abu Zubaydah, took issue with former Vice President Dick Cheney, [...]

In case you missed it, there was a great piece by Alexandra Zavis in the Boston Globe on May 3, “Going green becomes a matter of national security.”
In it, Zavis details how the military is, in many respects, leading the way on climate and energy security–not simply because military leaders say so, but because it [...]

ASP Senior Fellow Dr. Bernard I. Finel recently penned an op-ed about the restoration of professionalism in the executive branch after the administration of George W. Bush, where aides were permitted to dispense advice that led to illegal acts, and subsequently have not been held accountable for their actions.
From Bernard’s piece:
In the last administration, lawyers [...]