I am usually 50/50 on Tom Friedman’s views. Here I think Tom has it more right than wrong. Although I do not believe the U.S. should be the front guy in helping to clear up a centuries-old Muslim civil war, I do believe Mr.Friedman is right on the folly of a bombing approach. [I]f we […]
Star Trek Tricorder to Stop I.E.D’s?
Improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, are homemade bombs that can both injure and kill civilians and service members. For the Department of Defense, one solution to the problem of IEDs is to find them before they explode by detecting the chemicals used in the explosives. Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have developed […]
Worst of All Options?
A U.S. air strike against Syria that hits only a few targets and is of limited duration may be the worst of all options, writes Daniel Byman in Foreign Policy. Mr. Byman concludes, “To make a difference in the long term, the United States needs to do more, particularly with the opposition. And if it won’t […]
Serious Military Reservations
Ernesto Londono writing in the Washington Post highlights military reservations about unintended Syrian consequences, a lacking coherent strategy at the White House, a broad naïveté in the political class, the many skeptics in the military, U.S troops still being killed in Afghanistan, a 10 year counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan, a Joint Chiefs of Staff warning […]
War with Syria?
Cato Institute’s Chris Preble has written about “the relative wisdom and prudence of the Reagan/Bush I years in relation to the Weinberger/Powell Doctrine. Chris notes that essential elements of the doctrine boil down to five key questions. Americans now have an opportunity to influence elected congressional representatives to carefully run down the W/P Doctrine checklist. […]
Syria: Sunni vs. Alawite
David Brooks in The New York Times writes of a wave of sectarian violence, the Syrian civil conflict, Sunni and Shiite power players, images of mass killings, a regional religious war, the Sunni axis, poison gas in Syria, and a regional inferno. What’s the biggest threat to world peace right now? Despite the horror, it’s not […]
What Is America’s Senior Military Advisor’s Take on Syria’s Civil War?
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey says that “the application of force rarely produces and, in fact, maybe never produces, the outcome that we seek.” Here Cato Institute’s defines the Dempsey message while highlighting the supposed credibility problem caused by President Obama. Chris concludes that Syrian violence will end only when the […]
Do You Know about the Syrian Electronic Army?
Here, NPR tells readers that the group brought down The New York Times, took out The Washington Post and took control of npr.org. In the latest hacking that brought down The New York Times on Tuesday, evidence points to the activist group of hackers known as the Syrian Electronic Army. This group also took out The Washington Post briefly last week and […]
Countdown: Top 10 Bug-Out Basecamp Essentials: #1
It’s that time; today is the final installment of the Top 10 Bug-Out Basecamp Essentials. So far you have purchased the gear necessary to escape the city limits, collect your family members, ascend the mountain to your retreat and make it livable and fortified once you’re there. Only one major element remains necessary to your […]
Solar Storm Fired Directly at Earth Could Cause Geomagnetic Storm
The sun erupted on Tuesday afternoon at 1:24PM EDT sending a solar storm hurtling towards Earth at an estimated 2 million miles per hour. In the past, storms of this magnitude have caused mild geometric storms. NASA is warning that these magnetic storms could impact electronics and communication satellites. The storm is expected to take […]
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