Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

The federal government''s role in protecting U.S. citizens and critical infrastructure from cyber attacks has been the subject of recent congressio...

Recently, there have been multiple high-profile incidents involving the release of classified government information. Perhaps most prominent was Wi...

The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is a federally chartered non-profit corporation that may be utilised as a civilian volunteer auxiliary of the Air Force....

The United States maintains about 285 diplomatic facilities worldwide. Attacks on such facilities, and on U.S. diplomatic personnel, are not infreq...

The United States spends over $10 billion a year to support our permanent military presence overseas. That does not include military personnel cost...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DOD) both have systems that track varying levels of detail related to revo...

The United States uses a number of policy tools to address the threat of attack using chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons...

In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's ...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) provides positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) data to users world-wide. The U.S. Air Force, which is respo...

The United States has exported special nuclear material, including enriched uranium, and source material such as natural uranium under nuclear co-o...

This book is a comprehensive overview of oversight conducted over the past decade to measure how well DHS is achieving its mission, operating its p...

Budgets reflect our national priorities, and homeland security must rank high on our priority list. The President''s budget request would increase ...

Information technology has become pervasive in every way, from our phones and other small devices to our enterprise networks to the infrastructure ...

Globalisation has impacted the world with a seemingly inextricable linkage among all countries on this planet. This publication provides an intelli...

This book presents research in the study of current politics and economics of South and Central America. Topics discussed include U.S.-Latin Americ...

This book examines American counterinsurgency practices and tactics. At its heart, a counterinsurgency is an armed struggle for the support of the ...

With enactment of the FY2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act on January 1, 2014, Congress has approved appropriations for the past 13 years of war ...

Recent disclosures concerning the size and scope of the National Security Agency''s (NSA''s) surveillance activities both in the United States and ...

This book examines the incremental changes that have occurred in Japan''s national security considerations and policies over the last 60 years. It ...

Central America faces significant security challenges. Criminal threats, fragile political and judicial systems, as well as social hardships such a...