US Troops In Syria? A few Spcial Ops troops on the ground indicate nothing
WASHINGTON – What do we make of the announcement by the Obama administration about its decision to send about...
Category: Security
US Navy Challenges Beijing In The South China Sea The US Navy has been sent close to islands illegally claimed by China in order to assert freedom of navigation. How will China react?
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration does not have a stellar record either on national security issues or on upholding basic...
The Real Benghazi Story Is The False Explanation Of the Tragedy, Motivated By Politics Former Secretary of State Clinton may be responsible for a major blunder. But the Obama White House deliberately introduced a false explanation in order to protect the President running for re-election
WASHINGTON – The much-anticipated appearance by Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and now leading Democratic Party presidential contender,...
General Austin: “4 or 5” US-Trained Syrian Rebels Joined The Fight While the plan was to train 5,000, a small number anyway, the effort has not even started. Is this a joke?
WASHINGTON – We were told that the Obama administration, while not going overboard on this, was committed to degrading...
Lessons of 9/11: Stay Vigilant, Improve US Intelligence It is impossible to "win" an aasymmetric conflict in which the other side always has the advantage of surprise
WASHINGTON – The 9/11 attacks brought home the simple but unpleasant truth that America and Americans are easy, vulnerable...
Despite GOP Opposition, Iran Nuclear Agreement Here To Stay Too much international momentum behind pact. Almost impossible to reopen the issue
WASHINGTON – The acrimonious Washington debate about the Iran nuclear deal is mostly noise –and almost entirely for domestic...
Donald Trump Is Making Politics “More Fun” A laarge segment of US public opinion likes politics as contact sport featuring loud tough guys
WASHINGTON – I just heard a personality commenting about Trump on a major TV business news show. He said...
UK Cannot Exploit Its Shale Gas Reserves Political opposition and bad laws prevent exploitation of vast resources
WASHINGTON – The US is enjoying the immense economic benefits of the hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) revolution that made it...
Lift The US Oil Export Ban It makes no sense to keep an energy trade restriction created at the time of the OPEC oil embargo
WASHINGTON – At the time of the first OPEC oil embargo (1973-74), in an attempt to protect shrinking domestic...
A New President Who Knows Nothing About Foreign Policy? Among the 17 contenders for the GOP nomination, not even one has hands on executive experience in foreign affairs
WASHINGTON – The recent Cleveland debates featuring all 17 Republicans who want to be president revealed that within this...