Obama administrations

Nov 29, 2024 | hstoday.us | Obama administrations |a Master |Tamara Hutchinson |Gary Tomasulo

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), Private Sector Engagement Branch, in partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and American Airlines, held the Texas Corporate Security Symposium (CSS) on October 30, 2024. The event drew over 230 registered attendees from the private sector, federal, state, and local government, academia, and the homeland security enterprise.

Oct 30, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Steven Simon |Jeffrey Feltman |Obama administrations

The Middle East is where clever foreign policy initiatives go to die. This has been the case since at least the Cairo Conference of 1921, at which British Secretary of State for War Winston Churchill—who had to be reminded repeatedly who was Shiite and who was Sunni, and what the difference was between them—devised a plan, in the space of ten days, to ensure long-term British interests in the region.

Aug 7, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Dennis Ross |a Professor |Obama administrations

On July 21, U.S. President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, prematurely hastening the lame-duck period of his tenure. Most observers assume that he will not be able to accomplish much in the coming months. But Biden has made it clear that there is one priority that he intends to pursue in his remaining time in office: an end to the war in Gaza and the restoration of American peacemaking in the Middle East.

May 1, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Dennis Ross |David Makovsky |a Professor |Obama administrations

Until last month, the war between Iran and Israel was largely fought in the shadows. The Iranians decided to take it out of the shadows, openly attacking Israeli territory directly, from Iranian soil, for the first time in the Islamic Republic’s history. Some observers have argued that Iran’s April 13 drone and missile assault on Israel was a symbolic gesture. Yet given the quantity of drones and missiles fired at Israel and their payloads, Iran clearly meant to inflict serious damage.