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November 21, 2024 | Annie Fixler, Johanna Yang

Wanted: A Plan to Secure America’s Railroads Against Cyberattacks

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) published a proposed cybersecurity rule on November 6 that would “require the establishment of pipeline and railroad cyber risk management...

November 2, 2023 | Annie Fixler, Gabrielle Christello

More Cyber Collaboration Between TSA and Industry Will Put Railroad Operators on the Right Track 

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced updates to three security directives last week aimed at strengthening the cyber resilience of passenger and freight railroads. The new guidance...

May 30, 2023 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Stationing US Navy Destroyers in Spain Increases Readiness in the Pacific

The U.S. Navy recently announced its intention to forward station an additional two Arleigh Burke-class ballistic missile defense-capable destroyers in Rota, Spain, raising the total number of U.S. destroyers...

February 17, 2022 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Samantha Ravich

The U.S. Must Prepare to Withstand a Cyberattack

Congress gave the Biden administration two years to develop a strategy. One year in, there is little evidence that the work has started.

June 11, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

What to Expect From the Biden-Putin Summit

Biden wants ‘stable and predictable’ relations with Russia. Is that possible?

May 20, 2021 | Dr. Georgianna Shea, Trevor Logan

New Cybersecurity Executive Order Seeks to Improve Trust Through Verification

President Joe Biden issued a new executive order last week to raise cybersecurity requirements for federal contractors and bolster the cybersecurity of federal networks. While the executive order will better...

March 21, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

The Return of Missile Defense

Thirty years ago, President Reagan realized that MAD was not the best we could do. Do Obama and Hagel now agree?

July 14, 2010 | Wall Street Journal |

Iran and the Missile Defense Imperative

In a June 27 interview on ABC's "This Week," CIA Director Leon Panetta warned that it could be a mere two years before Iran is able to threaten other states with nuclear warheads mou...

September 7, 2006 | The Philadelphia Inquirer |

5 Years Later, More Needs to be Done

Most of us can remember exactly where we were nearly five years ago, on the morning of Sept. 11. I was in small-town America, where the guys in the local doughnut shop - watching the endless TV r...

October 31, 2004 | |

The End of the Right of Self-Defense? Israel, the World Court, and the War on Terror

A country's right to defend itself against external attack is so irreducible a component of sovereignty as to have been assumed from time immemorial. Recent events, however, have cast seriou...