by admin | May 6, 2021 | Feature Blog, international terrorism
Maritime terrorism is difficult to pull off. Attacking targets at sea – or using the sea to access a coastal target – requires special skills and logistics that most terrorists do not have. But some do, and others can learn. The sea connects more than two...
by admin | Jan 21, 2020 | international terrorism
Withdrawing from the World, or Not? The United States is still the world’s only superpower. China is catching up fast, but it’s not there yet. Russia is just a gas station with nuclear weapons, and the European Union is in disarray. India and Brazil...
by admin | Jan 10, 2020 | international terrorism
Bad Moon Rising I see a bad moon rising. I see trouble on the way. My favorite definition of strategy, taken from John Lewis Gaddis’s landmark On Grand Strategy , is “doing the best you can with what you have.” Donald Trump’s targeted killing of the Iranian...
by admin | Dec 28, 2019 | international terrorism
Navy SEALs have been fighting the nation’s enemies for a long time. Most famously, they killed Osama bin Laden in 2011. But the war against Islamist terrorism, now in its 18th year, has taken a heavy toll. SEALs have gotten very good at war… perhaps...
by admin | Dec 4, 2019 | international terrorism
For a long time, terrorism has been looming large in the shadows of America. Its threat peaked in the early 2000s when the United States suffered from the intensity of the 9/11 attacks carried out by Al Qaeda. These deadly terrorist attacks killed a total of 2,977...
by admin | Nov 16, 2019 | international terrorism
Now there’s an oxymoron! How is it that a Christian (or any religious person) can justify using violence as a means to create a better world? The “Christian Identity” movement reached a crescendo in the 1990s, but splinter groups still exist across the...
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