VRIC MONITOR No. 08 | Death of Gen. Suleimani stuns VRIC alliance in Latin America
The VRIC Monitor is a one-of-a-kind, monthly report from the Center for a Secure Free Society tracking extra-regional influence in Latin America. VRIC stands for Venezuela, Russia, Iran, China where Venezuela represent
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Crisis de comunicación y gobierno
Read the latest about communication and the government from our fellow, Dardo López-Dolz, at El Montonero (Content in Spanish).
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The Merit System
In an article for the Weekly Standard, Fellow Candice Malcolm writes how the United States can benefit from learning from Canada's immigration policies. This is a timely issue, especially "at a time when populist backlas
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NATO admission must never be free
Our military knows “freedom isn’t free.” Just ask any service member or veteran. Millions have served overseas, defending the freedom of our allies as well. Too many never returned. So while NATO expansion is gene
Continue readingRadical Islamists have declared war
There was another mass shooting in the United States on Wednesday, and, in what has become the standard reaction in the wake of these horrific shootings, a heated political debate began before the details had even sur
Continue readingHomegrown terror questions deserve answer
There are an estimated 20,000 foreigners, including Canadians and Americans, fighting alongside the barbaric cult known as the Islamic State or ISIS. According to a recent Canadian Border Security Agency report, in 2014
Continue reading16 years later, ‘Paz Para Vieques’ still teaches powerful lesson
Sunday, April 19th marks the 16th anniversary of the training accident that sparked our Navy’s worst defeat since Pearl Harbor. Soaring over the eastern tip of Vieques Island, off Puerto Rico’s coast, a Marine Corps
Continue readingSound economics for a stronger defense
In times of intense budgetary pressure, the tagline for the new 114th U.S. Congress should be “do more, with less.” This is definitely a mantra the U.S. military has adopted since the trillion-dollar, decade-long de
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