The Decay of U.S. Armed Forces
U.S. Army soldiers in Ramadi, August 2006 Wikimedia Commons/Air Force Tech Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock One of the major reasons for the weakening of U.S. alliances has been the decay … Read More
Tag: National Security
Issues involving the armed services and foreign threats to the nation.
The Weakening of U.S. Alliances and National Security
People’s Liberation Army contingent at 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru Probing of the U.S. alliance periphery is being done by more than just Russia and ISIS. In my … Read More
U.S. Alliances: Will They Last?
States with U.S. military relationships: Dark Blue are the NATO members, Purple are major non-NATO allies, and Pale Blue are signatories of Partnership for Peace with NATO Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Sesmith … Read More
The Anguish of a Conservative Voter
OMIGOD! Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee!! (c) Can Stock Photo Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, what is a principled … Read More
More on HGV Defenses
YAL-1A airborne laser in flight with the mirror unstowed Photo Credit:Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Missile Defense Agency This is the third post in a series on the threat of Chinese and Russian … Read More
Defenses Against Hypersonic Glide Vehicles
Hypersonic reentry of an HGV Image Credit: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) In my last post I wrote about the unique threat against U.S. national security posed by the … Read More
The Menace of Hypersonic Glide Vehicles
Deployment of U.S. Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV2) AFP Photo/Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) While Obama’s administration is cutting back on defense spending and futuristic defense development programs, both … Read More
Is Western Civilization Seeking Suicide?
Ottoman depiction of the siege of Vienna by Muslim forces in 1529. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/”Istanbul”, Hachette, Collection “Voir” (PD-Art) It is rapidly becoming obvious to a number of people that … Read More
What Is Russia’s Game in Syria?
Sukhoi Su-24M: Russian workhorse in Syria Wikimedia Commons/Alexander Mishin, © A. Mishin If you have been paying much attention to what is going on in the Middle East, you … Read More
The Noose Tightens on Hillary Clinton
Justice awaits! Photo Credit: Flickr.com/S Baker Neither the Democratic electorate nor most of the media have shown much interest in Hillary Clinton’s legal troubles so far, but recent … Read More
Libya Becoming Part of the ISIS Caliphate
Libya: A nation being absorbed by the ISIS Caliphate? Map courtesy of Google/Nations Online Project The release of the movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi appears to have triggered … Read More
Bernie Sanders Is Probably The Democrats’ Nominee
Hillary Clinton testifying to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/C-Span It is becoming increasingly apparent that whoever the Democratic Party’s nominee will be, it will not … Read More
A Movie Hillary and the Democrats Should Fear
President Obama and Secretary Clinton honor the Benghazi attack victims at the Transfer of Remains Ceremony held at Andrews Air Force Base on September 14, 2012. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/US … Read More
A Legacy Obama May Not Want
U.S. aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Gulf of Oman, Dec. 25, 2015 Photo Credit: U.S.Navy/Mass Communication Spec 3D Class J.M. Tolbert Last October and November the Iranians sent us … Read More
The Growing Backlash Against the Left
Tea Party Protest, Washington D.C. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Freedom Fan In my last post I commented on Peter Beinart’s confident prediction that America would follow the … Read More
Are Americans Really Moving to the Left?
Tomb of Karl Marx Photo Credit: Flickr.com/Matt From London These troubled times see Americans traveling in sharply different ideological directions. At least partially isolated from each other … Read More
Russia Becoming Cautious?
Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, aboard battle cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, flagship of the Russian Northern Fleet Photo courtesy of www.kremlin.ru Many who lived through the decay and fall … Read More
President Obama’s Passions
Obama and the World (c) Can Stock Photo Every now and then you read a book or an article, or in this case an internet posting, that is so perfect, … Read More
The Modes of ISIS’ Threat to US
Memorial to Nov. 2015 Paris attacks at French Embassy in Moscow Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Stolbovsky Dartmouth College academics Steven Simon and Daniel Benjamin, writing the post Could Paris Happen Here? … Read More
A Death Trap of Wishful Thinking
Black flag of ISIS Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham) has just reminded us in … Read More
Consequences of a Weak US President
U.S. troops near Siauliai Zuokniai, Lithuania, April 26, 2014 Photo Credit: AFP/Petras Malukas The U.S. and our NATO alliance are now facing the consequences of a weak … Read More
Coming Apart and the Failure of Historical Memory
Anti-war demonstration in Berkeley, CA Photo Credit: Flickr.com/celesteh When I was a child growing up in the 1950s, I absorbed what at the time felt like … Read More
Achilles Heel of Autocrats: Their Economy
Achilles with Paris’ arrow in his heel. Photo Credit: Flickr.com/texmex5 The national security outlooks of the United States and Western Europe are beginning to look grim. … Read More
A Failed, “Lead From Behind” Foreign Policy (2)
Russian TU-95 bomber intercepted over North Sea/Atlantic Ocean, 29 October 2014 Photo Credit: NATO/RAF The Obama administration has made the world more dangerous for the West by more than just … Read More
A Failed, “Lead From Behind” Foreign Policy (1)
Iranian and P5+1 Negotiators for Iran Nuclear Deal Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/US State Dept. At times it seems as if the Obama administration would just as soon wall the rest … Read More
Sitrep on Russia’s Syrian Campaign
Russian T-90A Main Battle Tank Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Vitaly V. Kuzman Russian forces are arriving rapidly around the airport the Russians are building just south of the Syrian city of Latakia. Rapidly … Read More
Russia Inside Syria
Now we learn Russia is building an airbase in Latakia, Syria. Also see here. The United States may be attempting to withdraw from the world, but Russia is expanding to … Read More
American Anti-Missile Defense
With Russia, China, and Iran possibly forming an axis to oppose the United States, and with two of them possessing nuclear weapons and ICBMs, and the third seeking them, it … Read More
Is China a Threat?
Is China a threat to the United States? In two recent posts, The Growing Threat of Russia and The Purposes of Iran, we have noted how China is in a … Read More
The Purposes of Iran
Al Qaeda and ISIS are not the only islamic jihadist organizations to worry about; there is Iran as well. The Washington Times has cited a release from the Iranian Fars … Read More