May 17, 2015

Analysis and Assessment: U.S. Syria Raid against ISIS

Abu Sayyaf was a mid-level financier who oversaw oil revenues for the Islamic State, aka ISIS, in Deir al-Zour, Syria.  The raid was authorized by President Obama after the president was briefed on the intelligence that had been collected over t...

April 3, 2015

Tehran Hoodwinks Clueless U.S. Negotiators

This past weekend, the Iranian regime backed away from a critical part of the nuclear agreement the Obama administration and the other P5+1 nations (U.K., France, Germany, Russia, and China) is desperately trying to get them to agree to.  Irania...

February 4, 2015

Has Iran Achieved Strategic Checkmate?

The Iranian government may have already secured its greatest geopolitical leverage, achieving a strategic and economic chokehold on a sizable portion of the Middle East, to include Israel and Saudi Arabia at the same time. I was thinking abou...

February 4, 2015

Wanted: Coherent strategy to defeat Islamic State and al-Qaeda

Could the young American female be the next IS victim?  This will probably end up being a "tit-for-tat" proposition – at least for now.  It’s going to get ugly and accomplish little, at least in the near term. B...

January 8, 2015

Post-Assessment: Paris Terrorist Attack

We are at war, regardless whether you deny it, do not believe it, or find a rationale to justify otherwise.  We need to stop facilitating the denial of what the radical Islamic ideology and terrorism are all about.  Europe is at war, the...

January 7, 2015

Charlie Hebdo Paris Terrorist Attack: new tactics, a new war for France

Twelve people have been killed and 10 – 15 people wounded, 5 of whom seriously wounded (4 critically) in this morning’s terrorist attack in the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satire magazine in Paris. The group used a group-level systema...

August 25, 2014

ISIL Sends 'A Message to America'

For well over a year now, we’ve been watching and learning about who the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) really is – first while just in Syria, then in Iraq, particularly over the past several months.  Again and again, we...

July 19, 2014

Russia and MH17; Where're the consequences?

In the aftermath of the Malaysian Flight MH17 shoot-down, as we spend the third day of questions and debate as to who’s to blame, the information war is in full tilt. And as expected, Putin’s propaganda machine has launched an all-out and...

March 8, 2014

Russia's Power Play in Ukraine

With the intentional sinking of the anti-submarine vessel Ochakov by the Russian Navy in the straits that connect the Black Sea with Lake Donuzlav, Valdimir Putin prevents the Ukrainian navy ships from leaving their base and ...