Recent press accounts illustrate the mainstream media’s growing awareness of threats to the electric power grid and the need to counter them. These threats extend from physical attacks, to cyber attacks, to natural and manmade electromagnetic pulse … [Read more...] about Connect the Dots . . . Please!
Contributor: Ambassador Henry F. Cooper
On the State of the Confusion*
The State of the Union Address was notable in that it provided nothing new-and misrepresented a number of important matters. The President's threat to veto legislation calling for sanctions on Iran if they do not cease their development of nuclear … [Read more...] about On the State of the Confusion*
Don’t Believe Your Eyes!
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani openly bragged of shepherding a major expansion of Iran's uranium enrichment programs a decade ago, when he led Iran's negotiations with the West that were seeking to limit those programs. He still serves the … [Read more...] about Don’t Believe Your Eyes!
Go Aegis: Be All You Can Be!
Extensive tests of the U.S. Navy’s Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, designed primarily to defend our overseas troops, friends and allies, also demonstrate an inherent capability to defend the U.S. homeland from several important … [Read more...] about Go Aegis: Be All You Can Be!
The Hobgoblin of Little Minds?
For years, I misquoted Churchill as saying "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" ... He may have, but if he did he surely would have credited Ralph Waldo Emerson who wrote a century earlier, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little … [Read more...] about The Hobgoblin of Little Minds?
Whither Goeth the Dog Days of Summer?
In these "dog days of summer" and with congress out of town, intelligence warnings have provoked an unprecedented closure of our embassies and consulates, associated overseas travel alerts, and presumably preparations to deal with jihadi attacks at … [Read more...] about Whither Goeth the Dog Days of Summer?