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As Paul Rosenzweig noted earlier today in Lawfare, the President just signed out an Executive Order that can result in the imposition of financial sanctions on a variety of bad actors that ply their trade through cyber means or against important cyber assets and/or restrictions or bans on travel to the United States on such individuals.
April 2, 2015 via Lawfare via Hoover Daily Report
The Western capitulation to Adolf Hitler in the 1938 Munich Agreement is cited as classic appeasement that destroyed Czechoslovakia, backfired on France and Britain, and led to World War II.
April 1, 2015 via Tribune Media Services via Hoover Daily Report
Remember these words the next time the New York Times runs a pious editorial decrying—with a spurious combination of selective facts and distorted law—some morally complicated aspect of U.S. counterterrorism policy.
April 2, 2015 via Lawfare via Hoover Daily Report
J. Paul Getty advised young people to rise early, work hard, and strike oil. It was the recipe to success for many an American robber baron of the nineteenth century, a fortune in both senses of the word being made all over again as hydraulic fracturing enables American energy production to burgeon. American energy production is advancing our national security, as well, emboldening our friends and impinging on our enemies
March 26, 2015 via undefined via Strategika
The failed states of West Africa and the Middle East have given rise to movements like ISIS and Boko Haram.
March 31, 2015 via undefined via Defining Ideas
Small and medium-sized states located between great powers often develop impressive survival skills. At the dawn of history in the third millennium BC, the smaller city-states of Sumer no doubt had to scramble to survive the wars between such giants as Lagash and Umma or Uruk and Ur.
April 2, 2015 via undefined via Military History in the News
Israel is the region’s sole nuclear-weapon state. How will that affect proliferation and deterrence in the region?
April 1, 2015 via undefined via Defining Ideas
Hoover fellow Eric Hanushek discusses fundamental reforms that he believes are necessary for proper funding of our K-12 schools.
April 1, 2015 via Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover fellow Henry Miller discusses the food police that according to Miller are very strict and impose irrational federal regulations concerning bio-enginering or genetic engineering of plants.
April 1, 2015 via John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
Three weeks before departing on a senior year abroad, Russell Berman found out he would be spending his last year of high school in Austria, and staying with a family that spoke only German – a language he didn't then know.
April 2, 2015 via Stanford Report via Hoover Daily Report
According to recent studies, the rate of startup creation has been decreasing for years. Are we witnessing the slow death of entrepreneurship?
April 2, 2015 via Inc.com via Hoover Daily Report
The country is running down its armed forces and its diplomatic resources, to the despair of allies.
April 2, 2015 via Economist via Hoover Daily Report
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