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Winston Churchill said that “history is written by the victors,” and that maxim is as correct today as it was in 1945. But in order to write history, one needs access to the facts–the accounts of eyewitnesses, or, at the

A continuation of the review of: Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws are Choking Freedom Worldwide Read Part I here. Harsh Reality The hopes of Muslim reformers put them sharply at odds both with present-day reality and age-old Islamic conventions.

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Euro bailout deal unravels as Italy’s bond yields soar * Greece will hold a referendum on the euro bailout deal * Greece’s opposition parties accuse Papandreou of blackmail * Italy’s bond yields (interest

World politics is a peculiar game. It often leaves countries with strange bedfellows. That is exactly what is playing out between the US and Pakistan. As the US prepares to lighten its footprint in Afghanistan, it is turning to its

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Former cricketer Imran Khan promises hope and change for Pakistan * Second Gaza cease-fire broken within a day * China arrests over 12,000 suspects in internet drug trafficking sweep * Somali-American identified as

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Pakistan threatens to sue BBC over documentary on helping Taliban * Taliban essentially confirm support from high Pakistan officials * Pakistan: American drone attacks are war crimes * U.N. Security Council ends mandate

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Saif al-Islam Gaddafi reportedly will turn himself in to the ICC * More evidence that Pakistan’s ISI supports Taliban terrorists * Sharia law and ‘Islamic Democratic’ identity * Police and ‘occupy’ protesters clash

For well over two years now I and others, have been questioning the wisdom of conducting a Counter Insurgency effort in the center of an ideologically monolithic society. The problem with COIN is that it assumes a much flatter playing

Across a vast expanse of the Muslim world, from Tunisia to Pakistan, the forces of Islam are rising. Tunisian voters have given the Al Nahda (Muslim Brotherhood) party a dominant position in the national assembly that will write the country’s

Pakistan supports militants trying to overthrow is government. The United States helped to put him in power. But Afghan President Karzai says he would side with Pakistan over the United States. File under: lack of gratitude. From the Associated Press:

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * U.S. warns American citizens in Kenya of imminent terrorist threat * Analysis: India being ‘contained’ by growing Chinese footprint in Pakistan * Turkey’s incursion into northern Iraq kills 49 Kurdish rebels * Turkey’s

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Mission Accomplished! as Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Libya * Basque separatist group ETA announces end to campaign of violence * France and Germany announce another summit for next week * Greece passes

From the Associated Press: Afghans: we need big stuff, too KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan needs more advanced weapons, like fighter jets, to defend against foreign threats, while the current firepower is enough to deal with insurgents, the country’s defense minister

From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON – Three months ago, one of the CIA’s most experienced clandestine operatives started work inside the New York Police Department. His title is special assistant to the deputy commissioner of intelligence. On that much, everyone

WASHINGTON: A miniature “kamikaze” drone designed to quietly hover in the sky before dive-bombing and slamming into a human target will soon be part of the US Army’s arsenal, officials say. Dubbed the “Switchblade,” the robotic aircraft represents the latest

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Hopes for a euro solution next weekend fade as the hours pass Moody’s warns France about its AAA debt rating Kenya’s army prepares to fight the ‘Mother of all Battles’ Use of heavy weapons

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

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

As I predicted the day after his election, Obama and his radical clique are hell-bent on destroying the traditional USA. Stymied in their overt attempts–ObamaCare, trillion-dollar stimulus deficit spending, financial reforms–they’ve resorted to covert actions. This is their comfort zone–lie,

From the UK’s Daily Mail: A 12-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped and repeatedly raped for eight months in Pakistan by a man who then falsified marriage documents with her, it was claimed today. The girl was lured on a shopping

This week on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio: US Congressman for the 40th district of California and the Chairman of the Sub-committee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, Rep. Ed Royce discusses the prosecution of a man in Pakistan accused of

British intelligence officials say there could be 200 potential suicide bombers in the country, many waiting to strike during the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Senior intelligence officials called the figure a “conservative estimate” and that the network behind them

Consistent with the US military’s willful blindness to the Islamic enemy doctrine of jihad, as described elegantly by Major Steven Coughlin (in his 333 pp. 2007/2008 thesis, To Our Great Detriment: Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad), security expert Praveen

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Alan Greenspan: All econometric models have failed * Italy and Spain debt downgraded, Belgium is next * Paramilitaries may be joining drug wars in Mexico * Karzai: Taliban can’t move a finger without

I told myself not to write an article about Afghanistan’s 10 year war anniversary. As the saying goes, “Momma always said that if you have nothing nice to say–say nothing.” Well, I have found that after serving in and out

From the UK’s Daily Mail: Dr. Shakeel Afridi A Pakistani doctor accused of running a vaccination programme for the CIA to help track down Osama Bin Laden should be put on trial for high treason, a government commission in Pakistan

Poor Elliott Abrams, he must be the loneliest guy at the CFR. If anyone over there can be dubbed a “friend of Israel” it’s him. But that alone doesn’t qualify Abrams to be the only one sitting by himself in

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Turkey prepares to invade Iraq, targeting PKK Kurds * Bad news for Dexia is good news for investors * Dexia’s problems make fools of European regulators * Pakistan raises concerns about Afghanistan-India strategic

The Obama administration has responded in court regarding Judicial Watch’s pursuit of the CIA’s bin Laden death photos. Given the administration’s open hostility to government transparency, it probably does not come as a surprise that the CIA is fighting tooth-and-nail

The State Department’s authorization of a $5.3 billion Taiwanese bid to upgrade their 145 F-16A/B Block 25 fighters, instead of adding 66 new F-16C/D Block 52 planes as the ROC had originally requested, is the big defense news of the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Greece misses requirements for next bailout payment * Greece’s banks face nationalization * Terrorist groups in Pakistan are splintering into smaller groups * US aids Uzbekistan despite human rights record * Defense Secretary

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Nato captures Haji Mali Khan, senior Haqqani network commander in Afghanistan * Afghan leader Karzai gives up talking to the Taliban * Al-Awlaki killing solidifies Obama strategy on targeting terrorists * U.S. warns

The coup d’etat as a method for changing government is, to me, fascinating. Libraries have been written about revolutions, but the much more often utilized coup d’etat is misunderstood; a secretive, often lethal, highly violent, and brutally efficient military-led format

In the war of ideologies, there is no more frustrating battle than the battle for truth. In the battle for truth, there is no more frustrating effort than trying to enlighten the hard-headed. Our enemy has been telling us for