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Rachel Oswald

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Rachel Oswald is a reporter for Global Security Newswire, preparing original reporting and aggregation pieces on a wide range of issues, including North Korea and missile defense. Prior to joining GSN, Oswald covered Georgia politics and local government for two years at The Covington News, where she won four Georgia Press Association awards for investigative journalism and business reporting. She is a graduate of the George Washington University, where she majored in Middle Eastern Studies.

Rachel Oswald's Latest Posts

Obama's Chemical Weapons ‘Red Line’ for Syria Keeps Shifting: Former WMD Hunter

By Rachel Oswald

President Obama’s "red line" for U.S. intervention in Syria is actually more of a fuzzy zone whose goalposts keep shifting, said the former top WMD hunter in Iraq. Read More »

Boston Lockdown Reflected WMD Response Plans

By Rachel Oswald

The Friday lockdown of Boston and surrounding communities was a highly rare response in the United States to a terrorism threat, reminiscent of security plans typically contemplated in response to attacks involving weapons of mass d...

Despite WMD Fears, Terrorists Are Focused on Conventional Attacks

By Rachel Oswald

WASHINGTON – The United States has spent billions of dollars to prevent terrorists from obtaining a weapon of mass destruction even as this week’s bombings in Boston further show that a nuclear weapon or lethal bioagent is not...

How the U.S. Could Cool Tensions With North Korea

By Rachel Oswald

It's not too late. Regional experts say that the United States should seek to engage the DPRK. Read More »

NATIONAL SECURITY

How Secretary of State John Kerry Will Change Relations With North Korea

By Rachel Oswald

As U.S. secretary of State, Senator John Kerry is likely to initially favor a policy of more engagement toward routinely hostile North Korea than that pursued by Hillary Clinton’s State Department. Read More »

NATIONAL SECURITY

Obama Warns Syria on Chemical Weapons

By Rachel Oswald, Global Security Newswire

President Obama on Monday warned that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would be “held accountable” for any chemical weapons use in the country’s bloody 20-month civil war . Read More »

NATIONAL SECURITY

U.S. Watching Syrian Chemical Arms Amid Fear of Attack, Diversion

By Rachel Oswald

WASHINGTON—The United States is quietly but closely monitoring the status of Syria’s large chemical weapons stockpile amid fears the regime of autocratic ruler Bashar Assad could use the warfare agents to quell continued politic...

U.S.-China Nuclear Posture Dialogue Stymied by Miscommunication, Experts Say

By Rachel Oswald

Poor communication and divergent goals are hampering efforts by China and the United States to improve their understanding of each other’s nuclear-arms policy, issue experts said on Wednesday. Read More »

An Egyptian woman cries as she celebrates the news of the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak

NATIONAL SECURITY

Egyptian General's Assurances for Democracy Meet With Skepticism

By Rachel Oswald

The wishes of the Egyptian people, as expressed through the ballot box, would be honored, even if those wishes undermine the long-standing privileges enjoyed by the military, one of the members of the ruling Egyptian Supreme Coun...

Al-Qaida Faces 'Internal Power Struggle,' Expert Says

By Rachel Oswald

The terrorist network al-Qaida is faced with an "internal power struggle" weeks after the death of founder and longtime leader Osama bin Laden, a counterterrorism expert testified before the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee...