Category: Expert Analysis

There are seemingly unintended consequences of sequestration. I don’t know what else to blame for an inability to pay people what they deserve.

America has some choices to make about our future counterterrorism strategy, and we’d better start coming up with answers now.

The system is meant to manage the force’s professional lives. In the end, many of the trackers get lost because the search engine they use to store the old trackers is very slow. As a result, trackers are created to track the trackers that aren’t acceptable.

Normal citizens should choose their holiday destinations carefully and acquaint themselves with the local situation. Awareness is a requirement these days, and everyone should carry out their own security management, what will I do if…?

At the end of a long workday, a girl pours herself a glass of wine and collapses onto the couch next to her roommate. The two have plans to marathon-watch one of their favorite shows. They do their typical gossip exchange about the day, laugh a bit, and settle in as their show begins. Quickly, […]

After careful analysis, we will see that these attacks are not at all sophisticated or well planned, and this, in fact, a lot scarier than if they were.

As Turkish military helicopter gunships rain lead down on buildings belonging to their own intelligence service, a curious character waits in Saylorburg, Pennsylvania. Fethullah Gulen is a former imam and political figure living in exile in the United States.  While Israeli newspapers have recently decried him as an anti-semite, others have described him as a […]

FighterSweep fans, this is the second part of a two part series regarding how fighter tactics can help general  aviation (GA) pilots.  Former F-16 pilot Nate “Buster” Jaros takes us through his thoughts on landing with the gear up or down in engine out scenarios.  He has written a book called “Engine Out Survival Tactics”. […]

When I called Mike Ritland, former teammate and owner of Trikos international, he described the Belgium Malinois to me and I knew that was going to be the dog for me.

So there I was…. Late on a Sunday morning, just trying to get back home to Enid, Oklahoma to see the wife and kiddo for dinner after a long, 3-day cross country spanning Denver, Colorado to Omaha, Nebraska and back to home-base. My student and I took off uneventfully from Omaha and we were on the […]

What does it mean to be a good wingman? Fighter jets rarely fly by themselves. Most of the time, if not all of the time they, they fly in a section (2 aircraft) or sometimes a division (4 aircraft). This is for multiple reasons but mainly because a single fighter jet is not very effective […]

What does it mean to be a good wingman? Fighter jets rarely fly by themselves. Most of the time, if not all of the time, they fly in a section (2 aircraft) or sometimes a division (4 aircraft). This is for multiple reasons but mainly because a single fighter jet is not very effective alone. […]