Last Sunday on 60 Minutes the Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, said if the U.S. gathered intelligence that Iran was building a nuclear weapon, it would be a red-line, and all options were on the table, including military. On the surface, I find the statement a little ludicrous.  Even the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran is developing nuclear weapons technology. The administration’s official line is that they “aren’t convinced” Iran has decided to make a weapon, and that maybe they’re simply building the components for [...]

The Obama National Security Team announced a dramatic shift in strategy for our military capability yesterday, and after all the bluster about “reorganizing for 21stcentury threats”, I couldn’t help but be struck by how everything said pointed back in time, not forward.  The center-piece of the strategy is cutting down the size of our Army.  Making it “leaner and more agile”.  No longer will we be structured for “legacy tasks” of stability and support operations or nation-building.  Nope, it’s all about “responding quickly and effectively to a variety of [...]

When we lost a drone to Iran the other day, I thought, “Wow.  Someone is in trouble.”  What I didn’t think was, “Wow.  It’s the end of the world.  Now Iran has our most top-secret information.”  I wouldn’t even blog about this, because it’s really a non-issue, but then a drone crashed in the Seychelles islands doing work over Somalia, and the next thing you hear is that OUR ENTIRE DRONE INFRASTRUCTURE IS IN DANGER.  Really?  Come on.  Drones are made for one thing:  Disposable intelligence. Yes, we [...]

   It’s been five days since the horrific attacks in Oslo, Norway, and I’ve been amazed at the speculation and misinformation being reported on the tragedy.  After reading yet another article full of poor terrorism analysis, I decided to write a blog on the top five fallacies being reported by the media, either out of ignorance or because they want to advance a particular agenda.  I’ll leave it up to you to decide which.    First, though, a caveat:  I wasn’t in Oslo on that day, have never [...]

Osama bin Laden has been gone for about a month now, bringing forth a plethora of experts analyzing exactly what his death means to the greater conflict against radical Islam.  On the one side are the doomsayers who stridently screech that his death did nothing but inflame the Muslim world, sparking the creation of a legion of new terrorists.  On the other side are predictions of the demise of Al Qaida and the subsequent fragmenting of bin Laden’s bankrupt nihilistic vision because of the onslaught of the Arab [...]

Burn in HELL MotherF****er.  And for everyone who ever questioned our resolve or methods, kiss my ass. Thanks to all the the unsung heroes in our government who fought tirelessly to see this happen, both in the military and the intelligence community.  My only regret is I wasn't standing over his smoking body.

I’ve been hesitant to post another blog on Libya because I don’t have behind-the-scenes intel and didn’t want to undercut operations about which I’m no longer privy.  After a couple of weeks of research from the sidelines, I’m now pretty sure that there is no coherent U.S. policy on Libya.  Only stabs in the dark to placate this week’s squeaky wheel.  On 4/21, the Obama administration decided to send armed predators to Libya, another paper escalation in the war that isn’t a war.  That’s an absolutely perfect decision [...]

A few months ago I wrote a blog about the Dove Outreach Church in Florida that wanted to burn the Quran and the potential effects that it could cause.  Well, today we saw those effects.  On September 9th I wrote, “The bottom line is that, rightly or wrongly, the action will be viewed harshly in the Islamic world.  Millions of people now on the fence, who really have no idea what America is like and have more than likely never even met an American citizen, will now believe [...]