In its simplest form the current drama surrounding TikTok, the wildly popular social media platform, centers on concerns over China's...

It is now twenty years since our ill-fated invasion of Iraq, a decent amount of time to begin seriously studying the events and outcomes....

The recent kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico and the murder of two of those Americans has created a hue and cry in the United...

Tenor As we enter 2023 we are focused and consumed by events in Ukraine, and rightly so. China and Taiwan also draw attention because of...

Time In 2022 there was a sharp escalation of politically motivated violence in the United States. There were numerous threats against...

As 2022 draws to a close and I look back at the year, I notice the increased amount of instability in many of the major world powers. The...

There has been considerable celebration over Ukraine's offensive against Russia. The Ukrainians have liberated large parts of their...

I normally try to avoid much of the political warfare going on in the US nowadays in this blog, but the recent FBI seizure of classified...

I was watching a portion of a podcast on TikTok, hence the watching rather than listening, where the concept of enhanced interrogation,...

Woke: aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice) - Merriam-Webster I...

Agent of Influence: An agent of some stature who uses his or her position to influence public opinion or decision-making to produce...

I spent 28 years of my adult life defending this country. I don't say that to obtain admiration, to pat myself on the back, or to gain...

I was re-reading NSC-68 the other day (NSC-68 United States Objectives and Programs for National Security (fas.org), the height of...

I have been hesitant to write about the current situation in Afghanistan. There are thousands of articles on the topic, not to mention...

By now, everyone should be painfully aware of the “China threat.” It is all over the place: television, newspapers, periodicals, you name...

You don't hear much about the war on drugs anymore. Partly because it has been displaced on the news by the War on Terror, War in Iraq...

As I noted in my previous post on national security background, we need to understand the other side, we need to view the situation from...