Trump’s Election Was a Win in the Fight to Keep Gitmo Open
President Obama recently signed the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act into law. Like numerous others before it, this NDAA...
Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner is the Vice President for Government Relations at the Center for Security Policy, where he manages the Center's educational efforts and interactions with the federal government. His articles have appeared in The American Spectator, The Washington Times, Townhall, The Washington Examiner, and inFocus Quarterly. He holds a law degree from Georgetown University, and received his bachelor's degree in political science, with highest distinction, from the University of Michigan.
NDAA and the Counter-Drone Challenge
Originally appearing in Defense News on December 22nd. On December 17, a Hamas member described by the organization as a...
NDAA Takes On Counter-Drone Challenge
The FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) – the conferenced version of which has passed the House, is due...
Rough Waters Ahead For Port Security
The anniversary of 9/11 has historically been not only a time to mourn those we lost on that day, but...
Drones: The Next Evolution of Low-Tech Terror
This article first appeared in National Defense Magazine The wave of jihadist terrorist attacks on soft targets throughout Western Europe...
Further Dismantling Deterrence
Further Dismantling Deterrence The Remaining Months of the Obama Nuclear Agenda An Occasional Paper of the Center for Security Policy...
Further Dismantling Deterrence: Next Stops on a Dangerous Road
This article first appeared in Defense News on September 8th, 2016. In the waning months of his presidency, after having...
Telling Obama What he Wants to Hear on Gitmo?
All thirteen Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have written a letter to President Obama, objecting to...
The Wrong Answer to the South China Sea
With conflict zones heating up around the globe, and our military continually being tasked to do more with far fewer...
Keep ‘Dirty’ Drone Threat in Perspective
During the recent Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC, British Prime Minister David Cameron made the ominous assessment that the...
Losing Track On Rail Security
We’ve all done it: Squeeze a balloon in one spot, and the contents migrate to a different part of the...
Don’t Get Complacent on Guantanamo
Last week, President Obama formally submitted his plan to Congress for closing down detention/interrogation operations at Guantanamo Bay. It’s a...
Home-drone terrorism
In the aftermath of the horrific terrorist attack that took the lives of fourteen victims in San Bernardino, California last...
After Paris, We Are…Freeing More Gitmo Detainees?
It seems that President Obama is having a hard time getting his head around the idea that we want to...
Communities Should Know What May Be Coming on Guantanamo
Word is that President Obama will likely submit to Congress this week his proposal for how to shut down detention/interrogation...
Don’t Treat Anti-Gitmo Letter as Last Word from Retired Military
This week, a group of twenty-eight retired generals and admirals signed a letter to President Obama, posted by Human Rights...