Sometimes I Count Them
Sometimes, when I walk into a room — a conference room, a board room, an auditorium, a lecture hall — I count the Black and brown faces, all the ones I can find. I didn’t set out to…
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Bishop Garrison
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Bishop Garrison (@BishopGarrison) is a member of the Truman National Security Project’s Defense Council. He graduated from West Point in 2002 and served two deployments in Iraq in the Army. He is also 2010 graduate of William and Mary Law School. He served in various national security positions in the Obama Administration and served as Deputy Foreign Policy Adviser for the 2016 Clinton campaign.
Everything Is Not a Rabbit
In our old home where our son lived for the first two years of his life, there were rabbits throughout the neighborhood. We saw them constantly in our own yard, and he’d often point and…
The Dystopian Genre of Data Collection
HBO’s series “Westworld“ has, for the past two seasons, been one of the most anticipated and acclaimed television shows in recent history. Its near future landscape of androids in a…
Of Cats and Coronavirus
The coronavirus outbreak has become a pandemic overnight with entire countries more or less shutting down — creating curfews, closing borders, suspending some services. Major sports…
Racism is an Existential Threat
Pittsburgh in 2018; another attack that year in Los Angeles; six months after Pittsburgh, a shooting in California. These are the latest acts of hate perpetrated against the Jewish…
The Crisis at the Border Is Deepening the Civil-Military Divide
On April 3, Newsweek reported that the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Rob Neller leaked internal memoranda from the Department of Defense that discussed the budgetary pressures on…
An American Reckoning in Virginia
America has long attempted to serve as the world’s moral and ethical compass, but a reckoning is long overdue. As residents of the preeminent global power, Americans are accustomed to…
The Modern Day Dark Age
In his novel “Lost for Words,” the British satirist Edward St. Aubyn wrote, “We are entering the Dark Ages, my friend, but this time there will be lots of neon, and screensavers, and…
Climate Change Is a Constitutional Crisis
Climate change is having a direct and real impact on the United States as well as the world. The national security community long ago identified climate change as an ongoing security threat.…
Let's Resolve to Add More Women of Color in National Security
Let me begin with an obvious yet necessary statement: I write this piece as an ally, understanding that this is not my discussion to lead, but instead to support, vocally with conviction and…