Tag: USA

Pentagon Begins ‘Continuous Vetting’ of All Troops for Insider Threats, Extremism; Social Media May Come Next (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

All Defense Department personnel are now subject to “continuous vetting” designed to spot extremists and other insider threats, with surveillance of their public social-media...

America’s First Exascale Supercomputer Is ‘On Track’ for 2021 Deployment (Brandi Vincent, Defense One)

After years of preparation and a change of plans, the United States’ first exascale supercomputer will soon be in full function. “Frontier is being installed...

The 9/11 Commission Said National Security Vacancies Were A Problem. Biden’s Pentagon Is ‘Far Worse’ (Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One)

Senate committees this week are considering more than a dozen national security and foreign policy officials in what experts hope is an effort to...

Navy secretary’s new strategic guidance focuses on deterring China from invading Taiwan (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

The Navy secretary will release a strategic guidance document this week outlining how the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps will maintain maritime dominance...

DoD official credits private sector with helping more quickly mitigate SolarWinds intrusion (Mark Pomerlau, Defense News)

Critical information from a cybersecurity company allowed the Department of Defense to move fast to mitigate potential damage to its networks from an intrusion...

Air Force pick pledges to tackle F-35 sustainment costs, back nuclear modernization (Joe Gould, Defense News)

Bringing down sustainment costs for the Lockheed Martin-made F-35 Joint Strike Fighter would be a “top priority” for the nominee to lead U.S. Air Force’s acquisitions, he...

Eastern Europeans angst over U.S. posture in their region after Afghanistan withdrawal (Jaroslaw Adamowski, Defense News)

Eastern European defense ministers said they hope the United States would deploy more troops on their soil, fearing the Pentagon could cut its military...

US-Tunisian military cooperation tested by Saied’s actions (Elizia Volkmann, Al-Monitor)

The 10-year cooperation deal between the United States and the Tunisian military could be undermined if the president of the Tunisian Republic continues to...

Biden and Xi discuss Taiwan amid spike in cross-strait tensions (Al Jazeera)

US President Joe Biden has said that he has spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Taiwan after Beijing sent a record number of...

Palestinian factions in Gaza call to end latest UNRWA-US deal (Maram Humaid, Al Jazeera)

Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip called for the scrapping of an agreement between the US and the United Nation’s agency for Palestinian refugees,...

U.S. Leads Effort to Press Russia on Chemical Weapons Use at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Executive Council Meeting (US Department...

Today in The Hague, the United States and 44 other countries submitted questions to the Russian Federation regarding the poisoning of Mr. Aleksey Navalny on...

Secretary Antony J. Blinken at OECD Opening and Keynote Address (US Department of State)

Secretary Antony J. Blinken at OECD Opening and Keynote Address - United States Department of State  

U.S. and OECD Co-Host Panel on Quality Infrastructure and the Blue Dot Network (US Department of State)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken joined business and civil society representatives for a discussion on the Blue Dot Network and the imperative to raise...

Make Friends With Your Fear (Heather Hurlburt, New America)

In the days after September 11, 2001, media coverage was full of young people reflecting a sense of shattered safety — that they had been promised,...

What America’s Fear of China Really Says About Us (Tobita Chow, New America)

In early February 2020, I witnessed a Chinese American woman get assaulted and spat on by a complete stranger in the middle of the...

Why Are We Afraid of Defunding the Police? (Jordan Sandman and Joe Wilkes, New America)

“How could society function without police?” It’s nearly impossible to imagine an America that doesn’t heavily rely on armed law enforcement, even for those...