On March 10, Representative Peter King (R-NY), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, opened a series of hearings...

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, many Americans view Muslims and Islamic worship centers as national...

History tends to repeat itself, politics included. The United States has a Democratic president who superseded President Bush, a...

Proving that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) still does “not subscribe to the view...

Photo courtesy of Flickr “We use Facebook to schedule the protests, Twitter to coordinate, and YouTube to tell the world.” –Anonymous...

Even with more and more of his people united against him, it’s unclear whether the popular uprising against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi will...

The recent deaths of four Americans at the hands of Somali pirates is leading military and legal scholars to question the ways in which...

The Iranian Cyber Army, which has previously hacked twitter, has taken credit for a cyber attack on Voice of America. The site contained...

Libyan Protestors. Photo courtesy Al-Jazeera. Following on the heels of the Egyptian democracy movement, protest movements in Bahrain,...

This call for protest came in after Chinese President Jintao called for even tighter Internet controls to cure more social unrest. With...

While most of the attention devoted to the Obama administration’s budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2012 has focused on its apparent...

This past week, the Appeals Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) handed down a unanimous decision answering several key...

Dennis Montgomery described himself in an official statement as “a patriotic scientist who gave the government his software 'to stop...

The U.S. is in talks with the Taliban to produce a “more fruitful result than recent contacts” between Taliban and the Afghan...

With the recent upheaval in the Middle East and the toppling of Mubarak in Egypt, there has been a significant reaction from Iranians....

Image from the UK's The Guardian. (Click image to visit the Guardian page.) On January 28, the Guardian reported that some members of...

On January 11, 2011, American University National Security Law Brief faculty advisors Daniel Marcus and Steven Vladeck participated in a...

By Stephen Vladek I’m perhaps the last person who should be asking the question at the heart of this essay—whether “national security...

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On Tuesday Lt. Col. Lakin pleaded guilty to failing to follow an order to meet with a superior and failure to report for duty at Fort...