As we come to the end of the year, it’s time to revisit some of the highlights, as well as some of the lowlights, of our national security in 2015. There have been ups, there have been downs. Make that...
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The Highs and Lows of U.S. National Security in 2015: A Year-End Review
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Operation CUT: Bosnia versus the Islamic State
Early this morning, more than a hundred Bosnian special police raided thirteen different locations around Sarajevo, the capital, arresting eleven suspects on a raft of terrorism charges. Those taken into custody are considered affiliates of the Islamic State, the notorious...
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The Truth About SpyWar
Espionage is a constant in human civilization. Spying features prominently in the Old Testament and it’s often called the “second oldest profession” with good reason. The ancient Chinese sage Sun Tzu wrote eloquently about the strategic importance of espionage and...
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Canada and the Emerging Terror Threat From the North
This week an article in The Daily Beast ruffled feathers by noting that Canada, our placid neighbor to the north, has a large and growing problem with radical Islam. It went so far as to suggest that, despite much Trumpian...
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The Intelligence Lessons of San Bernardino
It’s been nearly two weeks since Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple, murdered fourteen innocent people and wounded twenty-two more in their terrorist attack on a mental health facility in San Bernardino, California. Once the initial shock of...
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Talking Syria, ISIS, and Terrorism
Yesterday I appeared on CCTV’s “The Heat” discussion program to talk about recent developments in the war — rather “war” — against the Islamic State being waged by the US, the West, plus Russia, and of course What It All...
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What’s Next in the Terrifying, Unraveling Russo-Turkish Crisis
The downing of a Russian Su-24 bomber jet on November 24 by a Turkish F-16 fighter on the Turkish-Syrian border, where the two air forces have been playing high-speed cat-and-mouse games for months, opened a new and dangerous phase in...