In November 2008, one week after Barack Obama was elected as our forty-fifth President, I had the honor of delivering a Donahue Lecture at Suffolk University Law School. “A National Security Agenda” offered thoughts on national security challenges, priorities and strategies for a new presidential administration. Now, more than one year later, this paper is a “scorecard” on the success of these earlier recommendations and the new administration’s actions. In the pages following, what has been accomplished and what remains is reviewed and judged against my earlier suggestions, in the hope of encouraging readers in their own analysis. . .
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