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Iran and the Nuke
Instead of writing a threat assessment that would require hundreds of words and repeating what has already been written by others, here is a threat tree I put together as a visual reference of possible outcomes. Like if you a … Continue reading
Sequestration and National Defense
Steven Bucci at the Heritage Foundation documents in detail what sequestration means for national defense, military readiness, and our influence in the world, particularly the Middle East. Sequestration refers to the automatic cuts in the federal government’s operations mandated by … Continue reading
Obama Loosens Counterterrorism Methods for Analysis
Sycophants aside, this should make liberals very squeamish. NYT WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is moving to relax restrictions on how counterterrorism analysts may retrieve, store and search information about Americans gathered by government agencies for purposes other than national … Continue reading
Senate Defies Obama; Approves Military Imprisonment of Suspected Terrorists
The US Senate acted jointly in defying President Obama’s threat of a veto over the US military imprisoning suspected members of Al Qaeda and its allies. This along with rendition, indefinite detention, and "assassinating" American citizens who are known to … Continue reading
Regent University Embodies Public Leadership and Civic Awareness
It is probably impossible for any public servant to have the ability to, or even the desire, to come familiar with every aspect of society. Most degrees are focused in nature and rudimentary. Economics deal with, well, economics. Science, science … Continue reading
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Obama to shakeup national security team
One would think with the sate of the Middle East and our foreign policy challenges elsewhere, the Obama administration would more or less stay in tact. That doesn’t seem to be the case, however. Expected to be gone from his … Continue reading
al Qaeda on the make in Afghanistan?
Haven’t we seen this before? We move in, clear an area, turn it over or depart, only to see al Qaeda fighters comeback like so many cockroaches. We have over 100,000 troops in Afghanistan as we speak fighting under a … Continue reading
Absent of direct national interests: Did we get forced to own another war?
US “action” in Libya — I do mean action because the Obama administration is careful not to say mission — doesn’t at this point seem coherent. Was the US military’s participation in the Libyan air strikes in defense of national … Continue reading
‘Birth Tourism’ a national security threat
The nation’s immigration policy debate has entered into a new stage. What’s being questioned is rather children of legal but visiting “non-immgrant” parents should be grant birthright citizenship. Apparently, this happens more than realized. Temporary visitors such as students, workers, … Continue reading
Obama calls for assassination of U.S. citizens? Yes but …
I put in a long and hard one at the coal mine today. All true. Minus the coal mine part. After twelve and a half hours it felt like one though. At any rate, this will be brief for now … Continue reading
Why don't we let them speak for themselves, Mr. Brennan?
I know this isn’t an all out war against Islam and the Muslim middle east. It’s much more complicated than that. You have to slice it, dice it, subtract it, divide it, and even carry the one. We are not … Continue reading
Argument for smart defense spending
by Jason I find myself moving closer to the CATO’s position on U.S. military defense spending. You can check that out, here. Believe me, I’m all for defense spending, an unmatched military, and funding for future development and weapons production. … Continue reading
Is the American economy and deep deficits undermining our superpower position?
by Jason That has certainly been the recent fad over the last couple of years. Many economist and international relations strategist and historians have been warning U.S. policy makers of the potential consequences of running deep deficits that undermine our … Continue reading
