Member News & Event Recaps
Stories and insights from BENS Members and Staff
3 Steps We Must Take Now to Prepare for the Next National Crisis
As we continue to confront the devastating toll of COVID-19, it’s hard to contemplate the next national crisis. But if we want any chance at beating it, we have to…
COVID 19 is a National Security Crisis: We Need to Combat it that Way
What would one call a scenario that: crashed the economy; inflicted a multi-trillion dollar debt load on the national balance sheet; bankrupted businesses; caused record un-employment; hollowed out the heart…
Israel Has it Right: A Whole-of-Nation Approach Is Required to Fight the Coronavirus
Had the United States been attacked last year with a bio-weapon, such as weaponized Anthrax or Pneumonic Plague there is little doubt but that a unified national response would have…
COVID-19 Vaccinations: Israel Succeeds While America Struggles
As nations inoculate their citizens against COVID-19, disparate approaches to vaccine administration have produced starkly different outcomes. Comparing the efforts of the United States and Israel raises concerns about the…
We Can’t Keep this Crucial Foreign Investment Panel in the Dark
By: General Norton A. Schwartz, USAF (ret.) & Ivan A. Schlager In 1988, Congress codified the creation of CFIUS, the little-known Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. CFIUS,…
Getting Ahead of the Enemy’s Next Move
Not Just Hardware: Equipping Tomorrow’s Military Requires New Process Not Just New Technology Lasers, drones, and artificial intelligence. The future is bright for brilliant minds working together to engineer the…
Cipher Op
By: General Norton A. Schwartz, USAF (Ret.), President & CEO of BENS Topic: Nexus of Business & National Security Updated: May 11, 2015 The whole of the warring nations are…
No Air Force? No Way!
In early 2001, pundits were challenging the continued relevance of ground forces in the 21st century. The incoming Bush Administration was already discussing significant cuts in the size of the Army in an effort described as transformation. The pundits, of course, were proven very wrong just a few months later. ..