Obscured by all the hullabaloo over the Congressional speaking invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the more fundamental mystery of the Obama Administration’s Iranian strategy. Laying aside the increasingly evident incompetence … [Read more...] about The Obama Persian Mystery
Mideast
The ‘Spontaneous’, ‘Self Radicalized’, ‘Lone Wolf’ Misnomer
The characterization of Islamist jihadist attacks as "spontaneous" or committed by "self-radicalized Lone Wolves" seems inaccurate and misleading. All attackers we have seen in recent years were radicalized in mosques or Muslim schools they … [Read more...] about The ‘Spontaneous’, ‘Self Radicalized’, ‘Lone Wolf’ Misnomer
Weekly Briefing – February 22 – 27, 2015
Drones in the U.S. National Airspace System - Major Stephen Maddox & Captain David Stuckenberg -- in 2014 an American Airlines Group regional jet in Florida nearly collided with a drone at 2,300 feet. This type of UAS is supposed to remain … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing – February 22 – 27, 2015
Weekly Briefing – February 16-20, 2015
"If Only Germany Had Solved Its Unemployment Problem in 1933, Germans Wouldn’t Have Become Nazis...Er, Maybe not." - David P. Goldman (Sprengler) Denmark’s Compromised “Values” - Rachel Ehrenfeld - The Danes should have known better, but they … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing – February 16-20, 2015
The Invisible Hand Behind The Coup in Yemen*
Left: Sa'dah, Yemen Credit: Bernard Gagnon Over the last three years, media pundits accurately described Yemen as perched on the brink of chaos. No more. Now it has fallen off the cliff. The key question is how this happened. The short answer is … [Read more...] about The Invisible Hand Behind The Coup in Yemen*
Weekly Briefing, February 8-13, 2015
Deterring ISIL is Not Enough - Rachel Ehrenfeld - "Muslims need to change the religious discourse and remove from it things that have led to violence and extremism.”... President Obama’s requested Congressional authorization to indefinitely use U.S. … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing, February 8-13, 2015
Weekly Briefing – February 1-6, 2015
Hell on Earth - Dr. Mordecai Kedar@Arutz7 - Burning alive a human being is a method of eliminating enemies that is well known and documented in early Islamic sources, and based on a deductive legal principle of Sharia law… Anyone who attacks Islamic … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing – February 1-6, 2015
Beware of the Ides of March
March 2015 is looking like it is going to be a very "interesting" month, to quote the well-known Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times". First Prime Minister Netanyahu will address the joint houses of Congress while he is in Washington to … [Read more...] about Beware of the Ides of March
Egypt’s War in the Sinai Peninsula: : A Struggle that Goes beyond Egypt
Egypt is in the midst of a war that can be categorized as a low-intensity conflict. This category represents a common pattern of military campaigns in the early twenty-first century: sub-conventional wars fought by armies and security services … [Read more...] about Egypt’s War in the Sinai Peninsula: : A Struggle that Goes beyond Egypt
Weekly Briefing – January 24-30, 2015
ISIS Advances – January 22-28, 2015 - Rachel Ehrenfeld - As the White House claims its attacks on ISIS have weakened the barbaric jihadist movement, we are witnessing an expansion of its activities. In previously unseen coordinated attacks ISIS … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing – January 24-30, 2015