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Jan 15, 2025 | 
csmonitor.com | Dominique Soguel |Anna Mulrine Grobe
President-elect Donald Trump’s interest in making Greenland a part of the United States dates back to at least 2019, when he first publicly aired the idea. Denmark, of which Greenland is an autonomous territory, shrugged off Mr. Trump’s offer to buy it at the time. But now he is pushing the issue again and says that he isn’t ruling out the use of military measures to make Greenland’s acquisition a reality.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
csmonitor.com | Anna Mulrine Grobe
As the confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth gets underway on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, veteran servicewomen like Paula Coughlin will be watching closely. Ms. Coughlin, who narrowly escaped rape during the now-infamous Tailhook scandal of 1991, was a pioneering whistleblower in the movement to change Pentagon thinking and policies that long tolerated inaction and retribution against service women like her.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
everand.com | Anna Mulrine Grobe
As Pete Hegseth faced a contentious Senate confirmation hearing for secretary of defense Tuesday, veteran servicewomen including Paula Coughlin were watching closely. Ms. Coughlin, who narrowly escaped rape during the now-infamous Tailhook scandal of 1991, was a pioneering whistleblower in the movement to change Pentagon thinking and policies that long tolerated inaction and retribution against service women like her.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Anna Mulrine Grobe
For months, people have reported drones flying near U.S. military installations – most recently in New Jersey. An FBI official said there “has been a slight overreaction” to the drones, but the federal government’s inability to provide definitive explanations and solutions has generated annoyance, suspicion, and calls for action. Why We Wrote ThisA spate of unusual drone sightings in the U.S. is raising questions about oversight.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Anna Mulrine Grobe
With the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the United States is scrambling to maintain influence in the vortex of world powers operating in Syria. And the American military hopes to protect its vulnerable Kurdish allies while hitting the Islamic State (ISIS) hard enough that it never regroups. The quick toppling of the Syrian regime surprised U.S. military officials.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
everand.com | Anna Mulrine Grobe
The quick toppling of the Syrian regime – punctuated by the flight of leader Bashar al-Assad to Moscow – came as a surprise to U.S. military officials. “I think everybody expected to see a much more stiff resistance from Assad’s forces,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Monday as the regime was agreeing to hand over power to the Sunni Islamist Syrian rebel group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Anna Mulrine Grobe
Western intelligence specialists have been sounding the alarm for months about Russian sabotage in Europe. In past days, however, Moscow’s suspected campaigns to do everything from infiltrating U.S. military bases to jamming GPS and downing planes have reached “staggeringly reckless” levels, the head of the British intelligence service MI6 recently warned. Why We Wrote ThisRecent instances of suspected sabotage in Europe don’t necessarily have proven ties to Russia.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
everand.com | Anna Mulrine Grobe
Western intelligence specialists have been sounding the alarm for months about Russian sabotage in Europe. In past days, however, Moscow’s suspected campaigns to do everything from infiltrating U.S. military bases to jamming GPS and downing planes have reached “staggeringly reckless” levels, the head of the British intelligence service MI6 recently warned.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Anna Mulrine Grobe
It will be Tulsi Gabbard’s job to coordinate America’s 18 spy agencies and decide what global security risks get highlighted in the president’s daily intelligence brief – if she’s confirmed as Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence. She will also be charged with nurturing the U.S. relationship with the “Five Eyes,” an intelligence-sharing group made up of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom – the closest of America’s close allies.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
everand.com | Anna Mulrine Grobe
Tulsi Gabbard was forced to grapple with the “unthinkable” one morning in 2018, she said, when a blaring emergency alert sent to cellphones and TVs in Hawaii warned that a ballistic missile was about to hit the island. “Seek immediate shelter,” the message read. “This is not a drill.” It was a technical error corrected 40 minutes later, but Ms. Gabbard saw it as a “wake-up call.” “We have to work toward a future without nuclear weapons,” she told CNN the next day.
