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July 9, 2010 ASP Senior Fellow Michael A. Cohen writes: In the two weeks since Gen. David Petraeus was nominated to be the new commander for U.S. and NATO operations in Afghanistan, continuity has been the dominant theme in describing what his replacement of ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal represents. After all, Petraeus literally wrote the…
Today the American Security project released a report analyzing U.S. efforts to counter Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Yemen-based al Qaeda affiliate that claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day 2009. The report found that though AQAP has managed to take advantage of a security and…
On the eve of Memorial Day weekend, the Sierra Club and the American Security Project released a joint report entitled “Ending Our Dependence on Oil,” which shows how America’s addiction to oil threatens our national security, our economy and our environment. The report states that to stop this dependence, we must invest in infrastructure that gives Americans safe and convenient alternatives to driving, improve the fuel economy of our cars, and develop the next generation of advanced biofuels.
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A series of recent reports has identified several terrorist plots that have been “foiled” since 9/11. The reports highlight these cases as evidence that post-9/11 counterterrorism measures have been instrumental in protecting the United States against the threat of terrorism. These measures include using the recently renewed USA PATRIOT Act and amendments to the Foreign…
Washington, DC – The American Security Project recently released the mid-year update to their annual “Are We Winning?” Report, which showed a marked decrease in Islamist terrorism in the last two quarters of 2009 outside of the on-going conflict theaters of Iraq and Afghanistan. Even though Islamist terrorist incidents still remain at historically high levels, the decrease at the end of 2009 was the largest since 2004, when National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) started tracking Islamist terrorist incidents. The report, authored by ASP Senior Fellow Bernard Finel and Researcher Germain Difo measures America’s progress in the fight against terrorism according to metrics that are designed to be both reproducible and objective.
The American Security Project recently released a new report examining the US export control system and the need for greater transparency, predictability, as well as the need to protect fewer things better. The report, authored by ASP Senior Fellow Evelyn N. Farkas, specifically argues that the United States needs to develop a system which prohibits the transfer of critical military and dual-use technologies to countries, entities, and individuals that pose a real or potential threat to the United States; protects the technological edge of the U.S. military; fosters a strong defense industrial base; and facilitates interoperability and cooperation with U.S. allies and foreign partners.
