Tag: National Security

  • Nation & World

    Haiti assassination revives concerns over ‘private armies’

    After authorities say Haiti’s president was assassinated by a hired hit squad, a former senior CIA career official talks about the world of private armies.

    6 minutes
    hired security with guns.
  • Nation & World

    Comey defends ‘nightmare I can’t awaken from’

    During a Harvard Kennedy School visit, former FBI Director James Comey defends his decisions during the 2016 presidential election.

    4 minutes
    Former FBI Director James Comey speaks with Eric Rosenbach.
  • Nation & World

    The worries over U.S. intelligence

    After nearly six decades in U.S. intelligence, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper talks candidly about what he saw and learned protecting the country, and why he’s felt compelled in a new book to speak out about President Trump and the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

    14 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Fears of national insecurity

    Former Obama cabinet members talk with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow about national security issues in the Trump administration.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A ‘new phase’ of global terrorism

    U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh C. Johnson spoke to students at Harvard Kennedy School about the complex efforts that go into national security, particularly in the wake of terrorist attacks.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Weather warning

    A report co-authored by Professor Michael McElroy and D. James Baker, a former administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, connects global climate change, extreme weather, and national security.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Kissinger looks back

    Henry Kissinger has spent more than half a century thinking about and shaping foreign policy. At Sanders Theatre on Wednesday, the former Secretary of State reflected on the “hobby that became my profession.”

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    HKS announces endowed professorship

    The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has announced the establishment of the James R. Schlesinger Professorship of Energy, National Security, and Foreign Policy, an endowed professorship honoring one of the most accomplished public servants of our time.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Over there, over here

    On the Harvard campus, as many as 150 students have an untraditional academic past, as present or former members of the U.S. military, many of whom have had multiple combat tours.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Women leaders talk about international security

    A panel discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Wednesday (Jan. 14) addressed the question “Will President-elect Obama’s Security Policy Be Inclusive?” — that is, how can women’s global leadership help to shape the new administration’s security goals?

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Woolsey: New technologies will make need for oil obsolete

    Salt was once highly valued as a preservative for meat, but eventually a new technology — refrigeration — greatly reduced its value. Today, rather than a contentious commodity, salt is a humdrum condiment.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New president, new challenges

    In introducing the featured speaker at last week’s (Oct. 29) John F. Kennedy School Forum, Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, said, “If there were a really serious national security problem and we could only consult one person, that person, in my view, is Brent Scowcroft.”

    5 minutes
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    Security chief cautions against complacency

    If Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was politically wounded by his department’s response to Hurricane Katrina, he showed no sign of it during his forceful lecture Feb. 6 at the Kennedy School of Government.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Thomas Edward Cheatham Jr.

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 18, 2006, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Thomas Edward Cheatham, Jr., Gordon McKay Research Professor of Computer Science, was placed upon the records. Cheatham’s research and teaching bridged the divide between software theory and practice.

    5 minutes