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Cyber Sirens: Heed the Warnings Before it is too Late

Post author By Sarah Hampton
Post date May 19, 2017
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Photo: Yuri Samoilov At 11:48pm on April 7, 2017, every tornado siren in Dallas went off at the same time. The sky was clear, but the shrieks from 156 sirens wrenched residents from their slumber. As the sirens blared on for 95 minutes, terrified callers flooded 911 phone lines, leaving people experiencing real emergencies waiting […]

Tags Dallas, Global Policy Studies, hackers, hacking, national security, Russia, security, security policy, Texas

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A Foreign Policy Election

Post author By Caitlin Poling and Rachel Hoff
Post date November 17, 2014
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Originally published by the Weekly Standard. Exit polls from last week’s midterm elections challenged the conventional “it’s the economy, stupid” wisdom, as the number of voters who said the economy was the most important issue fell to just four in 10. The dark horse issue of the 2014 election was foreign policy. Our experience campaigning […]

Tags foreign policy, Iran, ISIS, midterm elections, Russia