With the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), many observers are making a fresh assessment of where...

International trade is a critical component of the U.S. economy, with U.S. merchandise imports and exports amounting to $2.2 trillion and $1.5 tril...

A well-integrated, national biosurveillance enterprise is a national security imperative. The United States' ability to detect quickly and characte...

In the aftermath of the information sharing failures leading to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New Yor...

This book examines the national security and preparedness issues, developments and analyses facing the U.S. today. Topics discussed include the nat...

Media stories about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance pertain to the unauthorised disclosures of two different intelligence collection pr...

The U.S. economy is dependent on the expeditious flow of millions of tons of cargo each day. Cargo containers are an important instrument of global...

The United States is concurrently pursuing the goals of reducing the size of its nuclear weapons force -- strategic and non-strategic, deployed and...

Since 2005, the number of countries that acquired an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system nearly doubled from about 40 to more than 75. In addition...