National Security

Let’s put down the legal pamphlets for a second and have an adult talk about the real world. At what point does one go from being a champion of free speech to a clear and present danger to the interests

Dos #1. Investigate and Prosecute. We have no way of knowing if the leaks began and end with PFC Manning. Hopefully, the U.S. government knows more. Job #1 is to put the investigation into overdrive, identify any and all parties

If there can be any doubt that our enemies are enjoying this fresh round of disclosures by Wikileaks, look no further than this speech a couple of days ago by Hugo Chavez, in which he talks about “bandits” and “fascists”

The National Journal is reporting: “The latest WikiLeaks document dump, publishing the details of more than 250,000 confidential U.S. diplomatic cables, has member of Congress blaming both the whistle-blowing website and the U.S. government for somehow allowing it to happen.

Feuding European officials signed off on a bailout of Ireland’s banking system on Sunday night, but it failed to calm financial markets on Monday morning, according to EuroIntelligence. 10-year bond yields for Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece as of November

So now, thanks to Wikileaks, we see the innards of American diplomacy displayed for the entire world to see: the entrails of secret conversations, the arteries of secret operations, and the guts of policy. With hundreds of thousands of cables

Save START! That is the new rallying point of the national security team of the administration. The New START treaty is getting an extraordinary push to secure ratification prior to the end of the calendar year while Congress is in

The International Free Press Society sponsored a conference today in Copenhagen. Below is the speech that was given during the event by Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff (photo Snaphanen). Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand here before you in the city of Copenhagen in

[youtube HHT1XGv3wSE nolink] Editor’s note: the following with written with Sasha Giller Sudan, Africa’s largest country, is at a tipping point. In the next 60 days, it may split into two countries, or it may devolve into a mass killing

The October 20, 2010, decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in United States v. Holy Land Foundation et al. (No. 09-10875) [1], involving what is reportedly the biggest terrorism funding criminal conviction in the

First and foremost as a former career Soldier, I have questions. How could this guy be passed on by multiple senior officers? How could anyone have ignored what he was saying and not rather have thrown his ass out of

John Arquilla is the Director of the Information Operations Center at the Naval Post Graduate School. He is a serious thinker and analyst who specializes in networked warfare, both technology-wise and tactically. There is a lot to be said for

The United Nations announced that they have appointed an ambassador to handle the potential (inevitable?) contact with alien life forms. Should aliens land on planet Earth, they will be greeted by Mazian Othman, a Malaysian astrophysicist. The reaction to the

If this doesn’t frustrate you as the TSA agent messes with “your stuff,” nothing will. The Washington Post points out that Israel has “the world’s most stringent airport-security procedures,” but it’s relatively hassle-free for most compared to what we’re facing

Those of us who man the watchtowers against the Islamic advance spend a lot of time training our binoculars on Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan. It’s at least as important, however, to keep an eye on Turkey. The current AKP

Crises are exploding throughout the world. And the leader of the free world is making things worse. On the Korean peninsula, North Korea just upended eight years of State Department obfuscation by showing a team of US nuclear scientists its

In coming days, legislators on Capitol Hill will begin thrashing out a new Continuing Resolution needed to provide “stop-gap” funding for the government in the absence of the annual appropriations bills. Perhaps in that context – and certainly in the

So now we have the North Koreans telling us that we are on the brink of war. Those who are advocating negotiations and restraint against Pyongyang are arguing what seem to be from two contradictory points. On the one hand

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is best described as consistent without being predictable. The Republican ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, set to become its chair in January, was a thorn in George W. Bush’s side on Iran (she is more

When analyzing the sudden urgency for the ratification of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), we have to look at the pattern of the Obama administration and the tendency to go into full crisis mode to get what they want

One evening last year in Laos, I saw this monk reading in a window. With the holiday season upon us, I remembered this moment of peace and thought you might like to share it. Please click to download a free

China has finally come forward to issue a condemnation of what’s happening on the Korean peninsula. Oh, wait a second. They’re not condemning North Korea for its unprovoked shelling of South Korea. They are condemning American forces in the region

One of the properties of a fractal is that you can zoom into a tiny portion of it, and it still looks like the original fractal. Fractal From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, history is like a fractal.