Truman National Security Project

Senior Truman Project Fellow Gail Harris discusses the potential for a US-Chinese cybersecurity partnership. I’ve been reading an awesome book about Winston Churchill called The Last Lion by William Manchester and Paul Reid.  One of the many things in the book that jumped out at me was a quote from a speech Churchill gave in Nov. 1942 [...]

Lyndon Johnson’s famous 1964 “Daisy” campaign ad depicts a little girl picking the petals of a daisy while a missile launch counts down.  The screen zooms in to her, then to black, and then to the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion.  President Johnson ominously warns, “These are the stakes!” Daisy aired only once, and though [...]

The Obama administration has repeatedly and publicly named China as America’s principal cyber-espionage enemy, highlighting China’s aggressive economic cyberspying against American businesses and critical infrastructure. President Obama himself mentioned cybersecurity concerns during his congratulatory phone call with new Chinese President Xi Jinping. Deciding to name and shame China openly is a significant step in US cybersecurity policy and has international repercussions: [...]

Truman Project Fellow Gordon Griffin discusses the importance of cyber security. Last Tuesday morning marked an historic first for cybersecurity buffs: the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in history, which used the structure of the internet itself to power an attack on Spamhaus, a company that distributes a blacklist of spam-hosting websites. As [...]

The United States and China both stand at the threshold of major transitions. In Beijing, newly selected leader Xi Jinping is set to assume the Chinese presidency this month, charged with navigating a complicated international environment and significant domestic challenges. Here in Washington, as the Obama administration begins its second term, John Kerry, the newly sworn-in [...]