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Watch the videos here and objectively decide for yourself if the State Department videos are no match for the Jihadist propaganda machine videos. We’ll take your votes in the comments.
On Thursday, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John Boehner openly critiqued the depth of President Obama’s publicly briefed strategy on dealing with ISIS, proclaiming, “An F-16 is not a strategy.” Nonsense, I say! The F-16 is a strategy, and it has worked before. The only real question here is whether or not […]
Another 9/11, another terror group killing Americans. We need to do something smart and think long-term. like our enemy does. I hope that, by next year, Americans are conducting coordinated unconventional attacks against our enemies worldwide to mark the anniversary.
Over ten years of US Foreign Policy under Presidents Bush (W) and Obama has fueled a roaring fire of Islamic extremism throughout the globe. Politicians in DC on the right blame the left, and the left blames the right with both getting nothing much done other then drifting further away from Constitutional values America was […]
The timing of Putin’s troops entry into Ukraine under the ISIS smoke screen in Iraq was no coincidence. A recent Economist article, titled Mr. Putin’s Wake Up Call, made the case for increased troop levels in Poland to send a “stronger signal” to Putin. The Economist’s editorial thinking with regards to Russia is flawed in […]
Since the start of the Ukraine situation, and Crimea, the Canadian Government has been pushing for a stronger military response while backing their NATO allies in both Eastern Europe and the Baltic States. However, Canada is amongst the trailing countries who fail to spend NATO’s requirement of 2% of GDP. In fact, the Canadians are […]
If you don’t care about your people then you aren’t a leader, you’re just a manager and would be better served working in Corporate America – certainly not in the U.S. Military.
Following the rapid string of successes that the Islamic State in Iraq and al Sham enjoyed in June and into July, ISIS has come to be perceived as an Islamist juggernaut, far more powerful and militarily sophisticated than any jihadist force seen yet in the 13 years that the US and its allies have been […]
As noted in Part One of this two-part series, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will open a summit this week in Wales. Among the issues at the forefront of debate, discussion, and strategizing sessions at the summit will obviously be the degeneration of security in Eastern Ukraine and, specifically, the influence of the Russian […]
The feature image. I hope it got your attention, because it caught mine. Just like this bold text has hopefully done. Take another look. The clear yet powerful background image, positioned cleanly behind simple and emotionally strong language: We Are All ISIS. There is a twisted appeal to the image – one that is both […]
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) prepares to open a summit this week in Wales, at least two international issues will be front and center in the effort to craft strategic vision for the alliance in the years ahead. Russian aggression and intervention in Ukraine and the battle against the onslaught of the Islamic […]
Last week, I posted a story on Uzra, a woman in the Afghan province of Nuristan. After her village in northern Barg-i-Matal District was attacked by a reported 300 insurgents, a member of her family was killed. Uzra picked up a weapon and, over the course of two hours, began killing members of the insurgent […]
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