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National Security
VOTE: Should All Branches Of The Military Use The Same Uniform?
Despite the fact that the new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has been passed into law, including a provision to require all branches of the Continue Reading
Five Reasons to Go to War in Syria
The conflict in Syria is getting nowhere fast. The Iraqi Army is a joke. No amount of continued training is going to overcome the cultural and inbred Continue Reading
Jihadis, Poetry, and the Ongoing Bromance of ISIL: Are We Sending The Right Message?
Poetry exists for three types of people: romantics, pacifists, and . . . jihadis? According to a New Yorker article hot off the press ad well as Continue Reading
OPM Database: Millions of Security Clearances Compromised
If you ever wanted to find out who our spies are, or who was undercover, or if someone had a bit more government access than they claimed, how would Continue Reading
ISIS Takes Ramadi Dam, Did We Lose The War?
In a move that will have repercussions for Iraq in the short term, and quite possibly in the long term, the Islamic State took control of the Ramadi Continue Reading
Is America Unknowingly Training Iranian Fighter Pilots?
Is America Unknowingly Training Iranian Fighter Pilots? by Kerry Patton There is nothing new about the United States training Iraqi pilots and Continue Reading
Ending ISIS: The Longer We Wait…
The West appears to be bored with the Islamic State; it takes a beheading or the threat of one to make the front page these days. While the Continue Reading
Torture Report: Are Unacknowledged Special Access Programs Next?
Since the world now knows some of the tradecraft used during enhanced interrogations due to the recently released Senate Intelligence Committee’s CIA Continue Reading
Global War on Terror and Future U.S. Policy
by Francisco R. Fonseca Ever since the United States entered the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in the wake of the September 11th attacks, it has taken Continue Reading
Peter Kassig: The Death of Innocence
A good man's life is lost. The world stood back and watched. The question that lingers is, “what now?” Peter Kassig was as innocent as they come. He Continue Reading
Mind Your Ducking Manners
Can someone tell me exactly how many three-and four-star generals have been fired for publicly disagreeing with the Obama Administration? I know of Continue Reading