Given apocalyptic vision, if al Qaeda’s rapidly metastasizing franchises obtain weapons of mass destruction they will use them on the USA…
Dr. Earl Tilford
Today is Thursday, March 05, 2015 
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The Future of War
In the 21st century the United States must prepare for three kinds of warfare: Standoff war, Hands-on war, and Cyber war…
War by Algebra Defies the True Nature of War
Violence is the means for breaking the enemy’s will and nothing does that like devastating opposing armies. It takes land forces to do that effectively and then consolidate and hold territorial gains.
Air Power’s Siren Song
Given the nature of ISIS’s forces, even a concerted bombing campaign absent an effective ground effort is unlikely to succeed…
Strategy 101: A Primer For President Obama
Simply put, strategy is a plan to achieve an objective. Speaking at the White House recently, President Obama stated that his administration had no plan to deal with the jihadist threat in Syria…
President John F. Kennedy’s National Security Legacy
Between January 1961 and Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy fundamentally changed U.S. national security policy…
Department Of Defense’s Death Spiral
President Obama’s administration seems to be at war with its military leadership. In the past five years, Obama has sacked more senior officers than all other presidents combined…
Camelot And The Syrian Crisis
Camelot’s legacy for foreign policy was flawed by halfway measures that betrayed credibility and emboldened our enemies…
Reflections on Gettysburg
Hopefully my children and grandchildren will remain as free and it will be thanks to the over 1,000,000 Americans who made that possible, including the half of them slaughtered in our nation’s biggest political blunder…
Dropping the Benghazi Ball
A secure phone call to the White House, possibly vetted through the national security advisor, should have followed. If it didn’t, someone was inexcusably inept…
Intelligence and National Security Priorities
Clearly, this administration’s reluctance to deal with the realities of Islamist fundamentalist terrorism, even under the admittedly weak description of a “War on Terror,” and its insistence that “al Qaeda is on the run,” reflect a denial of reality…
Syria’s WMDs More Immediate Threat
A foreign ministry spokesman warned that Damascus would use these weapons against any force intervening in its civil war. NATO estimates that Syria produces several hundred tons of chemical or biological agents annually…
On a Wing and a…(insert anything but god)
When absent God, human advancement —whether ideological, political, philosophical or technological— reflects our intrinsic nature, which is evil…
The Strategic Imperative of Security
Admissions from “the highest levels” of the U.S. government that it was party to a cyber attack on Iran risks a retaliation that could take many forms, compelling further escalation…
Bumper Sticker Slogans? Is that all you got?
For an administration with lots of failures and few successes, bumper-sticker history may be all they’ve got…
Israel’s Options on Iran
If the United States sits this one out, Israel may be forced to act with enormous ramifications and consequences. Such is the fallout from Washington’s strategic policy of leading from behind…
Sorry Mess – Presidential Apologies and Pardons
While controversy rages over the apologies, questions concerning this sorry mess remain unanswered…
Preparing the Military for Future Threats
The Army struggles with how to recapture the conventional war-fighting concepts and skills lost or, at the least, degraded during the last decade…
