Terrorism remains a threat to U.S. citizens, assets, and interests despite the national security community's decreasing focus on counterterrorism.In 2025, domestic terrorism represents a greater threat to the United States than do international terrorist organizations. Most domestic terrorist attacks in the United States are carried out by lone actors or small groups who believe in a wide range of ideologies, such as white supremacy, partisan extremism, and Salafi-...

This CSIS report states that terrorism is no longer the leading international threat to the United States or its top defense priority, but challenges related to violent extremism remain. The threat from Salafi-jihadist groups such as al Qaeda and the Islamic State has declined, and ethnonationalist threats are largely contained. However, a broader patchwork of violent far-left extremist ideologies has become more prominent on the global stage.

China's defense industrial base is operating on a wartime footing, while the U.S. defense industrial base is largely operating on a peacetime footing. Overall, the U.S. defense industrial ecosystem lacks the capacity, responsiveness, flexibility, and surge capability to meet the U.S. military's production and warfighting needs. Unless there are urgent changes, the United States risks weakening deterrence and undermining its wartime capabilities. China is heavily investing in munitions and ...

As Alan Palmer himself writes in his preface, 'Alexander 1, ruler of Russia for the first quarter of the nineteenth century, is remembered today mainly on three counts: as the Tsar who refused to make peace with the French when Moscow fell in 1812; as the idealist who sought to bind Europe's sovereigns in a Holy Alliance in 1815; and as the Emperor who died - or gave the impression of having died - at the remote southern seaport of Taganrog in the winter of 1825. Recent interest has concen...

In der neuen Debattenreihe Impulse wird ein Impulstext in mehreren Repliken diskutiert. Im vorliegenden ersten Band geht es um die Frage, warum gerade heute Gruppenidentitäten so vehement vorangetrieben werden. Sandra Kostners Impulstext verortet die Ursachen in der Etablierung einer identitätslinken Läuterungsagenda. Damit ist eine von politisch links stehenden Personen vertretene Form der Identitätspolitik gemeint, die Menschen nicht zuvorderst als Individuen betrachtet, sondern als Träg...

Die Auseinandersetzung um Migration und Integration, um Flüchtlings- und Asylpolitik ist angesichts des neuen Zuwanderungshochs wieder in vollem Gange. Gleichzeitig aber gibt es keine europäische Asylpolitik, sind die Außengrenzen der EU löchrig, geht die Bundesregierung von überzogenen Zahlen für die qualifizierte Einwanderung aus, werden die Alarmrufe der Städte und Kommunen kleingeredet, wächst das Unbehagen von immer größeren Teilen der Bevölkerung. Die Autoren und Autorinnen dieses Ba...

Gain a clear understanding of the entire spectrum of today's rhinology and anterior skull base surgery with Atlas of Endoscopic Sinus and Skull Base Surgery, 2nd Edition. This thoroughly updated title increases your knowledge and skill regarding both basic or advanced procedures, taking you step by step through endoscopic approaches to chronic sinus disease, nasal polyps, pituitary tumors, cerebrospinal fluid leaks, sinonasal tumors, and more. - Covers the full range of modern rhinology an...

Two western romances from the New York Times– bestselling author featuring alpha men who get a second chance at love with strong Texas women.AlexanderEver since DEA agent Alexander Cobb gave Jodie Clayburn a Texas-size brush-off, they've been sworn enemies. But eight years later, he can't believe Jodie has turned into such a beauty. Or that he'd have to beg her to help him crack a drug-sm...

Die Auseinandersetzung um Migration und Integration, um Flüchtlings- und Asylpolitik ist angesichts des neuen Zuwanderungshochs wieder in vollem Gange. Gleichzeitig aber gibt es keine europäische Asylpolitik, sind die Außengrenzen der EU löchrig, geht die Bundesregierung von überzogenen Zahlen für die qualifizierte Einwanderung aus, werden die Alarmrufe der Städte und Kommunen kleingeredet, wächst das Unbehagen von immer größeren Teilen der Bevölkerung. Die Autoren und Autorinnen dieses Ba...

Some of Today's Leading Black Voices—Including 3 Oscar® Winners, 23 Grammy® Winners, 8 Emmy® Winners, and 5 Golden Globe® Winners—Performing Today’s New International Version (TNIV)This ambitious and critically-acclaimed presentation of the Bible is set to an original musical underscore performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and a Hollywood-style sound design created by Technicolor Studios. Listen as the voices of Idris Elba, Blair Underwood, Taraji P. Henson, ...

Questions and conflict about homosexual practice and the church abound. We encounter media reports ofsame-gender unions and clergy trials. This leads to talk in congregations and district preacher's meetings, in the hallways atdistrict, conference and general church gatherings, and in the deliberations of the Council of Bishops where we hear prayers,questions, and an outpouring of conviction or anguish.We observe The United Methodist Church grappling with issue...

In Napoleon, Alexandre Dumas crafts a brisk yet panoramic life of the Emperor, tracing Bonaparte's rise from Corsican outsider to architect of Empire and his eclipse on St Helena. Written in the energetic cadence of the feuilleton, the book fuses documentary extracts and novelistic tableaux—Austerlitz gleams, Moscow burns, the Hundred Days race. Dumas balances campaign narrative with civic transformation: the Code, the concordat, and plebiscitary propaganda. Within nineteenth‑century Roman...