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Women In Combat: Issues For US Congress – Analysis
By Kristy N. Kamarck* Laws prohibiting women from serving in air and naval combat units were repealed in the early 1990s. However, until recently, it has been Department of Defense (DOD) policy to...
View ArticleWhat Does Latest Court Ruling On NSA Telephone Metadata Program Mean? – Analysis
On August 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in Obama v. Klayman, ruled for the government in the ongoing litigation over the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s)...
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Iraq: Politics And Governance – Analysis
By Kenneth Katzman and Carla E. Humud* This report provides background and analysis on the politics of Iraq, including its communities, its governing personalities and factions, security forces and...
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Iran’s Foreign Policy – Analysis
By Kenneth Katzman* This report provides an overview of Iran’s foreign policy, which has been a subject of numerous congressional hearings and of sanctions and other legislation for many years. The...
View ArticleSyrian Refugee Admissions And Resettlement In United States – Analysis
By Andorra Bruno* The November 2015 attacks in Paris have crystallized concerns among some policymakers in the United States about admitting Syrian refugees. Questions have been raised about the...
View ArticleFrance: Efforts To Counter Islamist Terrorism And Islamic State – Analysis
By Paul Belkin* On November 13, 2015, coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris left at least 129 people dead and over 350 injured at six locations throughout the city. French President François Hollande...
View ArticleThe Islamic State: Frequently Asked Questions, Threats, Global Implications...
By John W. Rollins and Heidi M. Peters* In the wake of the deadly November 13, 2015, terrorist attacks in Paris, U.S. policymakers are faced with a wide range of strategy and operational considerations...
View ArticleParis Attacks And ‘Going Dark’: Intelligence-Related Issues To Consider –...
By Anne Daugherty Miles* Authorities are tracking numerous individuals involved in the deadly assault in Paris on November 13, 2015. According to one report, “a rogues’ gallery of homegrown terrorists...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court To Evaluate Federal Firearm Provision Again – Analysis
On October 30, 2015, the US Supreme Court granted certiorari to hear Voisine v. United States, a decision examining the federal provision that makes it unlawful for an individual to possess a firearm...
View ArticleState Sponsors Of Acts Of International Terrorism – Analysis
By Dianne E. Rennack* In the waning days of 2014, and at the close of the 113th Congress, multiple developments affecting U.S. foreign policy set the stage for possible dynamic debate between President...
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The Islamic State And US Policy – Analysis
By Christopher M. Blanchard and Carla E. Humud* The Islamic State organization (IS, aka the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL/ISIS, or the Arabic acronym Daesh)1 emerged as a threat to the...
View ArticleFormer US Hostages Of Iran To Be Eligible For Compensation – Analysis
Nearly four decades after their ordeal, US victims of the 1979-1981 Iran Hostage Crisis will become eligible to receive up to $4.4 million each in compensation, thanks to the Justice for United States...
View ArticleOrlando Nightclub Mass Shooting: Gun Checks And Terrorist Watchlists – Analysis
By William J. Krouse* On June 12, 2016, an armed assailant killed 49 people and wounded over 50 others in an Orlando, FL nightclub. After a three-hour stand-off with police, the assailant was killed by...
View ArticleWhat Executive Branch Actions Can President-Elect Trump ‘Undo’ On Day One? –...
Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump suggested that, if elected, he would rescind significant pieces of the Obama Administration’s domestic policy. Now that President-elect Trump will assume the...
View ArticlePipeline Security: US Domestic Threats – Analysis
By Paul W. Parfomak* Recent acts of sabotage against U.S. oil pipelines by environmental activists have raised concern about the security of the nation’s energy pipelines and the federal program to...
View ArticleWhat Happens If Johnny Hacks His Seventh Grade Report Card?
In years past, a student’s education records were likely to be memorialized on paper and stored in a principal’s locked file cabinet. Today, these records can be stored digitally in a computer “cloud”...
View ArticleBackground: Statutory Qualifications Waiver Relating To Prior Military...
President-elect Donald Trump has announced he will nominate retired Marine General James Mattis to be the 26th secretary of defense. By Heidi M. Peters* The US Secretary of Defense, who has authority,...
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Yemen: Civil War And Regional Intervention – Analysis
By Jeremy M. Sharp* In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and members of a coalition1 it established (hereinafter referred to as the Saudi-led coalition) launched a military operation aimed at restoring the rule...
View ArticleSmith V. Obama: A Servicemember’s Legal Challenge To Campaign Against Islamic...
On November 21, 2016, a United States district court dismissed a lawsuit by a U.S. Army intelligence officer, Captain Nathan Smith, challenging the Obama Administration’s legal authority to conduct the...
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Dakota Access Pipeline: Siting Controversy – Analysis
By Paul W. Parfomak* Recent growth of domestic crude oil production has resulted in an unprecedented expansion of the United States’ oil pipeline network. One of the largest domestic oil pipelines...
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