By Dr. Terry Simmons
Special Contributor, In Homeland Security

I recently attended the Atlantic Council of the United States’ Missile Defense Conference held in Washington D.C. for the fourth consecutive year.

By Brett Daniel Shehadey
Special Contributor for In Homeland Security

Newly elected Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Normandy, France for 15 minutes at a D-Day Anniversary that sparked a renewal in an effort toward a peaceful resolution.

By Terry Simmons
Special Contributor

Vladimir Putin is on his way to legendary status. The Firebird of Russian Folklore is based both in the cultural and political histories of the Russian Empire throughout its many manifestations over the last 1,000 years.

By Glynn Cosker
In Homeland Security Editor

President Barack Obama is set to meet Wednesday with Ukraine’s president-elect Petro Poroshenko for the first time. Obama is standing firm on his assertion of not providing weapons to aid Ukraine’s resistance to pro-Russian rebels.

By Donald L. Sassano
Special Contributor

Russia’s brisk and efficient annexation of Crimea has resulted in an ongoing reassessment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

By Dr. Stephen Schwalbe
Program Director, Political Science at American Public University

In March 2014, Putin and Russia completed the annexation of Crimea without military conflict. In March 2014, Putin and Russia completed the annexation of Crimea without military conflict. Putin claimed ethnic Russian people were being threatened by people within Ukraine

By Richard Pera
Dean of the School of Security and Global Studies at American Military University

Twenty years ago, while training for an assignment in France, I had the opportunity to take the NATO Staff Officers Course at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C.

By Dr. John P. Dolan

Associate Professor, Intelligence Studies at American Public University

The international crisis in Ukraine has created friction in local American communities. A micro Cold War has begun in Colorado.

By Donald Sassano
In Homeland Security Contributor

Not long after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a splashy new clash-conscious text by Harvard’s Samuel Huntington mocked realism’s all-encompassing statist paradigm. Realists’ laser-like focus on the state as central actor, argued Huntington, could no longer fully account for heightened global instability, including what realists believed to be an emerging security competition between Russia and Ukraine.