National Security

Hayden Center’s Larry Pfeiffer tells the Independent that Director of National Intelligence candidate Tulsi Gabbard’s apparent susceptibility to foreign disinformation and her affinity for strongmen will give pause to American allies. Her confirmation could be dangerous.

The Honors College at George Mason University and Peraton awarded 11 students the selective Peraton Scholarship in National Security at the conclusion of the Spring Semester.

Five members of the Schar School of Policy and Government’s international and national security faculty took the stage to take questions from in-person and virtual audience members about current events in intelligence. There was plenty to talk about.

Confused about the Trump trials? There’s a podcast for that: Meet “Jack,” the weekly breakdown of all-things Jack Smith hosted by Allison Gill and the Schar School’s Andrew McCabe.

The National Security Administration redesignated George Mason University as a National Center of Academic Excellence, a distinction Mason has had since 1999.

What’s it like delivering the daily intelligence briefing to the president of the United States each morning? Adunct and Mason alum James P. Danoy can now tell all.

Over the summer, 24 students from George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School delved deep into issues of constitutional law, separation of powers, and national security in Padua, Italy—a place of inspiration for many of these ideals. The two-week study-abroad trip was co-taught by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and National Security Institute Founder and Executive Director Jamil Jaffer.

Is Julian Assange a criminal or a persecuted journalist? A Hayden Center panel attempted to find an answer.

The results of climate change are creating Big Problems for policy makers. The Schar School has been teaching climate change as a national security problem, and governments should respond accordingly.

Associate Professor A. Trevor Thrall is interviewed by MIT Security Studies Program.