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PPI | Policy Report | September 12, 2008
Strategic Pause and Future Conflict
By T.X. Hammes
Unfortunately, the United States has failed to take full advantage of the strategic pause that followed the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. ... It will fall to the next president to force the fundamental strategic review that
should have occurred years ago.
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PPI | Policy Report | November 14, 2007
Fixing the Department of Homeland Security
By Elaine Kamarck
Elaine Kamarck proposes a redirection and redefinition of the Department of Homeland Security, with an aim toward helping DHS more effectively pursue its core mission: protecting the American people.
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PPI | Policy Report | November 14, 2007
Rebuilding America's Reserves
By Phillip Carter
Phillip Carter addresses the need to rebuild and refocus America's National Guard and Reserves.
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DLC | New Dem Daily | May 4, 2004
Transportation Security: Lots of Pain, Too Little Gain
There are growing signs that our transportation system remains very vulnerable, thanks in no small part to negligent supervision and a lack of leadership by an administration that claims to be making America safer every day.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | November 20, 2003
Homeland Failure
By Shane Ham
No matter how you cut it, the Bush administration is shirking on homeland security. It gets a D on its report card.
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DLC | New Dem Daily | November 20, 2003
Unprepared and Mad as Hell
By Harry Siegel
New York firefighters took a horrible hit on 9/11. They lost 343 lives and more than 4,000 collective years of experience. Yet today they don't feel any more secure or able to take on a terrorist attack.
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PPI | Policy Report | July 23, 2003
America at Risk: A Homeland Security Report Card
In spite of satisfactory results in a few areas, taken as a whole, the Bush administration's efforts to protect the homeland have been surprisingly lax and inadequate, earning an average grade of "D." In short, President Bush has failed to fulfill his promise to make homeland security his top priority.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | July 29, 2002
A Failure to Communicate
By Joshua Micah Marshall
Intelligence analysis is an oxymoron at the FBI. But help from the CIA is not the only answer.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | July 29, 2002
Bridging the Intelligence Gap
By David J. Rothkopf
Why the culture of secrecy has blocked urgently needed reform of the world's best intelligence service.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | July 29, 2002
Homeland Security Begins at Home
By Bruce Reed and Jose Cerda III
More attacks aren't "inevitable" -- if we deploy a new domestic security force and more police.
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Office of Sen. Joe Lieberman | Speech | June 26, 2002
The Best Defense: Leveraging the Strength of Our Military to Protect the Homeland
By Sen. Joe Lieberman
Keynote remarks to the Progressive Policy Institute Forum on "Making America Safer: Next Steps for Homeland Security."
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PPI | Policy Report | June 24, 2002
Protecting the Homeland through National Service
By Marc Magee and Steven J. Nider
Matching the desire to serve with an opportunity for service is now a national priority, but expanding national service to meet homeland security needs has become a matter of competing political initiatives in Congress. There is no question that the Bayh-McCain bill is the more effective way to accomplish this goal.
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DLC | New Dem Daily | April 23, 2002
Ending the Disarray on Homeland Security
Federal Office of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge is meeting with security directors from all 50 states Tuesday to talk about a national strategy for protecting Americans from terrorist acts. There will be lots to talk about.
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DLC | New Dem Daily | April 3, 2002
Embracing Iraq
At the end of the Arab League Summit in Beirut, member nations issued a declaration of solidarity with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in exchange for Iraqi assurances that it now recognized the sovereignty of Kuwait. It's important that the United States make it abundantly clear that this position is unacceptable.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | March 25, 2002
Modernizing Homeland Security
By John D. Cohen and John A. Hurson
High-tech data links and inter-agency coordination could stop terrorists from slipping through our fingers again.
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PPI | Briefing | January 18, 2002
The State and Local Role in Domestic Defense
By John D. Cohen and John A. Hurson
The best preparation for future acts of terror can be found in the same techniques and technologies that can be used to better protect our neighborhoods from drug traffickers, robbers, and burglars, and to keep our communities healthier.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | November 15, 2001
Bolstering Our Front-Line Defense
By John D. Cohen
We must help cities and states prevent and respond to future acts of terrorism.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | November 15, 2001
It's Our Fight Too
By Bruce Reed
Americans have always been prepared to sacrifice in times of war, and never more so than now. Our leaders should start asking us.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | November 15, 2001
Making Government Work
By Al From
The events of Sept. 11 and their aftermath reminded us of the vital role government plays in our society. But it also reminded us that we need a government that works.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | November 15, 2001
Revamping Our Intelligence Community
By Dave McCurdy
Improved coordination is crucial to winning the war against terrorism.
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