Tag: iran

Why do countries continue to strive toward attaining nuclear weapons? Ask Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad…

Yesterday, North Korea announced to the world their first explosive testing of a hydrogen bomb, a nuclear weapon which would be significantly more powerful than the three previous atomic weapons which the reclusive hermit nation has detonated.  While many in the public sphere perceive Kim Jong-Un’s government as profoundly insane, North Korea’s actions do in […]

War between Iran and Saudi Arabia (or between the Sunni and Shia sects of Islam, more widely) benefits no one, and is thus unlikely, excepting the case of some egregious religious affront on the part of either side.

This video (warning, graphic) was just released a couple of days ago, after ISIS completed an offensive campaign in Yemen where they retook the states (wilayat) of Aden and Abyan, now referring to it as one state. The Houthis (a.k.a. Ansar Allah) in the region are a coalition of Shia Islamic forces—anti-U.S. and anti-Sunni. Despite the usual principle of “the enemy of […]

A nuclear Iran is a terrible idea. The current Iran regime is one of the most aggressive and most successful when it comes to state-sponsored terrorism.

Israel is known for using any means necessary to protect the nation. Could they opt to use the “extreme option” to outmaneuver the Iran nuclear deal?

The veteran community is tired of politics as usual, and they are starting to make themselves heard on all forms of media regarding the elections of 2016.

Is the United States being taken to the mats over and over again in a foreign policy which is fundamentally broken?

Perhaps it is wrong to see the recent Iran deal as a zero sum game in which one side bested the other, but one can still wonder what the post-career memoirs will look like from across both sides of the table…

Obama administration officials have floated the idea of releasing convicted Israeli spy, Jonathan Pollard, likely as appeasement for the Iran nuke deal.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy fired warning shots before taking control of the Maersk Tigris, a Marshall-Island-flagged cargo ship.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group is on its way to the Gulf of Aden, ready to assist in evacuations and operations in Yemen.