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American Security Project Releases Series of Papers Urging Review of Defense Policy Alternatives
The American Security Project today released five white papers intended to foster discussion over defense policy and alternatives facing incoming Administration. The United States has not undertaken a thorough, strategy-based defense policy review since at least the 1980s.
Read the papers by clicking the links below:
Defending the Globalizing Commons
A Strawman Vision -- The Military We Ought to Have in Five Years
Policing the New Global Commons
Read the press release here.
American Security Project Hails Presidential Appointments of Board Members Dr. Susan Rice and Greg Craig
Washington, DC – Today the American Security Project praised the appointment by President-elect Barack Obama of ASP board members Susan Rice and Greg Craig to be Ambassador to the United Nations and White House Counsel, respectively. In response, ASP Chairman and former Senator Gary Hart, and ASP President Vice Admiral Lee Gunn, USN (Ret.), issued the following statement:
Read the statement here.
ASP President Vice Admiral Lee Gunn Talks about Detainee Issue on CSPAN’s Washington Journal
American Security Project Hosts Forum on Legal Issues Confronting the New Administration in the “War on Terror”
The American Security Project hosted a webinar and conference call with reporters and guests to discuss a series of new papers on legal issues confronting the incoming Administration in the “war on terror.” Participating in the call were ASP Senior Fellow Dr. Bernard I. Finel, Dr. Anthony Clark Arend, Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service in the Walsh School of Foreign Service, and Damon A. Terrill, former Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State.
The participants specifically discussed challenges facing the Obama Administration on issues including detainees, interrogation, surveillance, ungoverned spaces, and military strikes on suspected terrorists abroad, as well as the need for a new sustainable, international legal framework. The forum and white papers are part of an part of an ongoing series of reports and perspectives being issued by the American Security Project on important issues confronting the incoming Administration.
Read Dr. Finel's report here.
Read Dr. Arend's report here.
Read Mr. Terrill's report here.
Read the press release here.
American Security Project Releases "Are We Winning?"
On September 10th, the American Security project released a report detailing the lack of progress in critical areas of America’s “war on terror.” The report argues that while modest progress has been made on several fronts, including state sponsorship and economic progress, the US is not winning the “war on terror” by a number of measurements – including that terrorist violence around the globe is at an all time high, and high-profile terrorist leaders such as Osama bin Laden remain at large.
Read the full report here.
Read the press release here.
