National Security

While the term “well meaning liberal” is increasingly laughable, there are a few good apples in the bunch – and one of the best is My Professor, Robert Cohen. In accordance with his position as a leading scholar of student

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Tension growing in China over self-immolation of Tibetan monks * Toothless Arab League fails to suspend Syria’s membership * Kenya sends troops into Somalia in major policy shift Tension growing in China over

On the 40th birthday of her daughter, one of the bravest freedom fighters in the world, Laura Pollan, founder and leader of the Cuban dissident group Ladies in White, died this week of a mysterious “illness”. Sound strange? Her friends

From the current National Interest, which looks at the foreign policy views of the GOP candidates: Is Romney GWB II on foreign policy? Is that a good thing? “The presumed frontrunner, Mitt Romney, seems particularly lacking in any coherent philosophical

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Germany makes ‘historic decision’ to sell tanks to Saudi Arabia * No decision on future U.S. troop presence in Iraq * Son of Anwar al-Awlaki killed by American drone in Yemen * Yemen’s

Tonight on Secure Freedom Radio: What is Communist China up to these days and what does a secretive Beijing mean for its people, the United States, and its neighbors in the region? Research Fellow of the Asian Studies Center at

Joseph Kony, the monstrous leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda, a group possibly more despicable than Hitler’s nazis, has apparently been targeted by the Obama administration. News broke on October 14th that 100 US troops were being

Tonight on Secure Freedom Radio: Will President Obama’s decision to remove the surge forces in Afghanistan put the remaining 3,000 American forces at risk? General Jack Keane examines the administration’s proposed pull out of 30,000 troops by next September. Although

I often quote Debka reports because they have unique content based on intelligence sources not available elsewhere, and because they’re right more often than they’re wrong. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei According to Debka, the motivation for Iran’s plot to

Because it was excerpted in Bat Ye’or’s pioneering The Dhimmi, I obtained Moshe Perlmann’s (1975) complete translation of a 1739 essay on the Churches of Cairo. Written by Sheikh Damanhuri (1689-1764), a highly esteemed leader of Al Azhar University, the

From the Associated Press: BAGHDAD (AP) – The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more

From the Associated Press: BOSTON — Prosecutors in the case of a Massachusetts man accused of plotting to kill American troops in Iraq won’t be allowed to refer to the troops as “our soldiers” during his trial, a federal judge

Tonight on Secure Freedom Radio: There has been no doubt in the minds of many people that President Obama has made many negotiation and tactical mistakes in regards to Israeli policy. The real question in the debate is how did

Roy Egan defends himself saying that it’s free speech. “I’m not doing anything illegal,” he told this reporter. TSA officials are pushing to fire him. [youtube AplyBYc3ekA]

From the UK’s Daily Mail: A British Royal Navy ship was ordered to turn its guns around because they were parked pointing at a hotel room Michelle Obama was staying in. Fearing the First Lady might be in danger, minders

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * The U.S. will send troops to central African nations * LRA head Joseph Kony seeks theocratic state based on Ten Commandments * Left-wing protests continue to grow on Wall Street and in Europe

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama said Friday he’s dispatching roughly 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to help battle the Lord’s Resistance Army, which the administration accuses of a campaign of murder, rape and kidnapping children that spans two

From the Marine Corps Times: The House Armed Services Committee chairman said Friday he would be willing to support a tax increase to pay for defense spending but would “fight like crazy to make sure those are not the only

This lucky image was captured two days ago in the Dasht-e-Margo (Desert of Death). The Baloch tribesman is a member of the Afghan National Police and was part of an Afghan security escort to a very remote dam. I was

Tonight on Secure Freedom Radio: Why would Iranian Special Forces such as the Quds force carry out a strike against a Saudi Ambassador in the United States, especially when the current Obama administration is the most amicable administration towards Iran

While no longer breaking news, the Iranian plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador touches on another, larger story. It starts with how countries who export terror seek to infiltrate the US. Our various intelligence agencies and web of foreign contacts

After federal prosecutors charged that Iranian officials were behind a plot to pay a gang of Mexican drug dealers $1.5 million to assassinate the Saudi Arabian Ambassador in Washington D.C., American officials expressed incredulity that the Iranian government would “cross

From the Washington Examiner: Pentagon counternarcotics and counterterrorism operations around the world were abruptly suspended this month when the Defense Department officials overseeing the programs failed to ensure they were funded by congressional authorizations, according to documents obtained by The

During the debate over whether the Libyan intervention was a model for military action, Libyan weapons were being smuggled into Egypt’s black market and into Gaza. Keep in mind that an elaborate system of tunnels has been constructed between the

Amid the general jubilation at the long overdue release of Gilad Shalit, the young Israeli soldier kidnapped and illegally held prisoner by the terrorist organization Hamas, some have sounded the discordant note that by negotiating a prisoner exchange with Hamas