Defending North America is the number one mission of NORAD and USNORTHCOM. We partner with the Canadian Joint Operations Command (CJOC), the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA), the Mexican Secretariat of the Navy (SEMAR, and the Royal Bahamas Defense Force (RBDF). A capable and …

From September 12 to 14, CHDS organized the conference for Security and Defense Education in the Americas, co-sponsored with the Inter-American Defense College, which was held at the CHDS headquarters at the National Defense University. The conference analyzed the major issues concerning security and defense …

The CHDS team arrived in Santiago, Chile, on Sunday, July 17, 2011 for the 2011 Sub-Regional Conference (SRC). The team has been hard at work in preparation for what everyone hopes will be the most successful conference ever held by CHDS. The Sub-Regional Conference will be held at …

On June 6 the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies welcomed its 8th Interagency Coordination and Combating Terrorism course (ICCT).  With seventy-three participants from nineteen countries, this ICCT is one of the most diverse courses the Center has hosted, as the variety of professional backgrounds represented …

On May 12th the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies hosted a group of 71 faculty and students from the Mexican Navy’s Centro de Estudios Superiores Navales (Center for Superior Naval Studies – CESNAV) headed by Admiral Carlos F. Quinto Guillen at National Defense University’s Abraham …