al-Qaeda

It’s been a hell of a year. The News Roundup first started in March, so here’s a quick snapshot of what we’ve hit, by month, since then.

These times of national crises find us in dire need of a leader willing to place their professional agenda behind that of national importance.

A ragtag group of backwater extremists have risen to international media heights and challenged the peace of mind and collective safety of the free world. Generally speaking, most people know little about them. A dangerous position, and if one man is historically noted as an expert on that point, it is Sun Tzu. In his classical […]

We must consider the results of the 2003 intervention in Iraq and the deployment of conventional forces in large numbers; the outcome was a disaster of epic proportions.

It appears that terrorist groups al-Qaeda and ISIS continue their attack planning against the United States, which should come as no surprise to those who have followed the groups over the past decade.

Part two of the Red Team exercise on a hypothetical, multi-pronged ISIS attack on the Midwest—in Kansas City, Missouri.

The following is a Red Team case study of a hypothetical situation in which terrorists attack Kansas City, Missouri.

ISIS presents a physical threat to America and its allies, and it is a destabilizing regional force in the Middle East. It cannot be ignored.

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…

I am simply explaining these feelings, or my experience with them, upon returning from a year in Afghanistan during the Global War on Terrorism.

Canada must update its legal framework in order to protect her people from undesirable foreign criminals like Omar Khadr.

Poole has written on terrorist and insurgent tactics, as well as the counter-insurgency tactics he believes are necessary to defeat them.