Katharine Sciackitano
- Oct 22, 2019
- 9 min
It's more than just Ukraine: Trump's constitutional crimes
While the political sphere today is obsessed with Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president and the subsequent fallout, this...
Chris Fenn
- May 19, 2019
- 11 min
A Threat To MENA and Western Interests: Al-Shabaab's Foreign Fighters
On March 29, 2017, President Donald J. Trump advanced proposals, designed and endorsed by senior officials at the Department of Defense,...
Chris Fenn
- Feb 6, 2019
- 9 min
Part II: Constitutional Failure Since 9/11
I. Introduction Since September 11, 2001, presidents and their administrations have adopted theories of broad emergency presidential...
Chris Fenn
- Dec 18, 2018
- 8 min
Part I: Emergency Presidential Power and Defining Constitutional Failure
I. Introduction Scholarly literature on emergency presidential power is divergent and divided into three schools of thought: (1) broad...
Chris Fenn
- Aug 31, 2018
- 4 min
Cyber Attacks Prove Why Russia is an Adversary
Recently signed into law, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (NDAA) elects to label both China and Russia as...
Mark Lu
- May 25, 2018
- 18 min
A Modern-Day Guernica
Noor Darwish is angry. Her people are dying and the government of the country she lives in—the most resourceful and influential in the...
Sacha Brenac
- Apr 2, 2018
- 3 min
Trump Picks Bolton: US Braces For What Comes Next
Less than two weeks ago, President Trump removed Gen. H. R. McMaster from his position as National Security Advisor and replaced him with...
Ian Heald
- Oct 2, 2017
- 3 min
The Navy and BRAC: Killing Two Birds with One Stone
This past August, two Arleigh-Burke class Destroyers, the USS John S McCain and the USS Fitzgerald, were involved in deadly collisions in...