By Farah Pandith, NSI Advisory Board member
Recent years have revealed a scary, dangerous new era in which children have been taught to hate, are recruiting others and are plotting terrorist attacks. While several schemes conceived by young far-right extremists were thwarted, the future may be bleaker. We have missed emerging trends in the past; counterterrorism professionals must urgently renew their vigilance — and implement new countermeasures — over the radicalization of young people in the West and beyond.
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This article was written by NSI Advisory Board member Farah Pandith and originally appeared in NBC News on March 22, 2021.
By Jamil N. Jaffer, Founder and Executive Director of the National Security Institute
The Headline: The supply chain crisis currently facing the United States — driven in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign government and company decisions, and overburdening regulations — has the potential to create significant economic and national…
By Alexandra Seymour, NSI Visiting Fellow
Artificial intelligence (AI) impacts every aspect of our lives. From asking Siri a question to applying for a job, AI leverages data to increase efficiency, improve accuracy, and inform decision-making. Though most individuals do not need to understand how these algorithms work, the U.S…
By Jamil N. Jaffer, Founder and Executive Director of the National Security Institute
The Headline: This weekend, a former nuclear engineer officer in the U.S. Navy, Jonathan Toebbe, and his wife, Diana Toebbe, were arrested on espionage charges.
- The couple were arrested for violating the Atomic Energy Act, meant to…
Fault Lines welcomes Jamil N. Jaffer, the Founder and Executive Director of the National Security Institute, as we reflect on the past four years of NSI. How did NSI begin? What can work in the non-partisan realm teach us? Where will the efforts of the National Security Institute be in the next four years? These questions and more are answered on this week’s episode of Fault Lines.
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In a world that is always changing, NSI experts offer insight on critical stories in the news. Please continue reading for their take on the most important breaking stories.
NSI Advisory Board member Jeremy Bash, on the national security consequences of Senate Republicans forcing a default on the national debt
By Dr. Christopher Ford, NSI Advisory Board member
This three-part series looks at the U.S-Taiwan partnership from the perspective of how we might be able more effectively to deter an invasion of Taiwan by the PRC’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) — which has spent many years preparing for such an…
On this special 100th episode of Fault Lines, Jamil Jaffer, Carmen Medina, Lester Munson and Sarah Stewart look forward to what the future of national security may hold. What type of challenges will China pose to the United States? Should the U.S. come to Taiwan’s aid if China were to invade? Is political polarization the biggest challenge policymakers will face in the next five years? These questions and more are answered on Fault Lines’ 100th episode!
Our panelists reference The Age of America First: Washington’s Flawed New Foreign Policy Consensus in their discussion. Read it here.
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Fault Lines welcomes Dr. Christopher Ford, author of the recent NSI paper “Principled Conservatism in America’s Foreign Affairs and National Security Policy”, and former U.S. Rep. Jane Harman, Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita at the Wilson Center, and author of the book, “Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard…
By Dr. Christopher Ford, NSI Advisory Board member
This three-part series looks at the U.S-Taiwan partnership from the perspective of how we might be able more effectively to deter an invasion of Taiwan by the PRC’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) — which has spent many years preparing for such an…
