Publications

New Security Strategy Could Signal The Beginning Of A ‘Trump’ Doctrine

December 23, 2017 Lamont Colucci The Hill

This week, President Trump formally unveiled his National Security Strategy. Much has been made of the Trump administration's ability to introduce this document (something required by Congress since the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act) in the first year of its first term, and for good reason. Trump's predecessors often struggled to articulate a coherent path forward on national security, and none have done so so quickly.

What Trump’s New Strategy Means For The Middle East

December 20, 2017 Ilan I. Berman Al-Hurra Digital

Earlier this week, in a major address in Washington, DC, President Donald Trump formally unveiled his administration-s new national security strategy. That document - the first of its kind since 2015 - lays out a compelling and fundamentally different vision of American security from the one that dominated during the Obama era.

Resource Security Watch: No. 10

December 19, 2017

Start-up working on floating city prototype;

China's plan to reengineer Tibet's environment;

Crisis in Lake Chad basin;

Glacial melt provides Peru with a new water source...for now;

The forecast for global famine

Directed Energy Weapons Table

December 19, 2017 Defense Dossier

Please use this link to reference the Tables in the November 2017 Defense Dossier Future of War issue article Directed Energy Weapons and Modern Warfare.