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Chad Wolf, acting Homeland Security secretary during the Trump administration, joined a Heritage Foundation discussion on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and Homeland Security’s…

U.S. Naval War College Professor Karl Walling delivered remarks at the Heritage Foundation on the strategies of terrorism. He said Muslims are the best messengers for countering terrorist id…

Sebastian Gorka, a former deputy assistant to President Trump, talked about the threat of ISIS and contrasted the different counterterrorism approaches of the Obama and Trump administrations…

Panelists talked about countering violent extremism in the United States. Seamus Hughes, deputy director of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, provided an update on the fed…

The Heritage Foundation hosted a discussion about the fight against ISIS and whether Congress should pass an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) specific to those efforts. Senator…

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn and Michael Ledeen talked about their book, The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies, about winning the war on …

Sebastian Gorka talked about his book, Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, about how to defeat ISIS and other jihadist groups. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Islamic S…

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), a 2016 presidential candidate, spoke about his national security priorities following the Paris terrorist attacks and the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California…

Panelists talked about the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policy and strategy, and what it means for U.S. national security and for President Obama’s successor in 2017. Specific top…

House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mike McCaul (R-TX) talked about the threat of Islamist extremism and the need to fight it overseas. He described what he called the “new age of terror…

Panelists talked about the ideologies and expanding threats of ISIS, al-Qaida, and other terrorist groups in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. They talked about the U.S. and international c…

Christopher Harmon talked about his book, A Citizen’s Guide to Terrorism and Counterterrorism, in which he looks at the continued threat of terrorism today and talks about the Obama administ…

Four former and present deputy assistant secretaries of defense for detainee affairs talked about the state of detainee policy in the U.S., including the 166 men who remained in detention at…

Representative Chip Cravaack (R-MN), a retired commercial airline pilot, made an emotional appeal for preserving the federal program that trains and arms airline flight crews. The program wa…

Shannen Rossmiller talked about becoming a self-taught terrorist hunter and the sting operations she carried out with the Federal Bureau of Investigations. She was in the forefront of develo…

Panelists discussed the new Heritage Foundation survey looking at international data on global and domestic terrorism. According to the survey, terrorists have made over 38,000 attacks again…

Panelists talked about homeland security at the state and local level. Among the topics they addressed were the need for counterterrorism reforms, responding to security threats, inter-agenc…

Panelists talked about terrorist reintegration programs. Starting in 2006, the U.S. began transferring select terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabia for participation in their…

Frances Townsend delivered the keynote address at a Heritage Foundation event on what the federal, state, and local governments should do to effectively protect the homeland. Topics included…

Experts and leaders in homeland security participated in a Heritage Foundation event on what the federal, state, and local governments should do to effectively protect the homeland. Panelist…