China Extends String of Pearls to the Red Sea and the Mediterranean – Part I
The United States has launched Operation Prosperity Guardian to address security challenges to free navigation in the Red Sea’s Strait
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The Current Worldwide Crisis: Irrelevant Truth, Public Opinion and Operant Slogans
There is a time-honored expression regarding war: “Truth is the first casualty.” This is indubitably true, especially in a world with so many sources of information, all of whom have their own agendas, independent of telling the truth, even if it takes some time to establish that truth.
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Missing the Point – War Crimes: Form vs. Substance
If Hamas is trying to upset us, to piss us off, it’s working. Vicious cruelty can be a tool of war as much as any other kind of weapon. Hamas wants us to overreact, to lose our righteous high ground, and to become the vicious enemy they need to hate. A superpower they can blame.
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Zelenskyy makes pleas to Congress and the White House for more aid
“Today I’m in Washington to strengthen our coalition to defend Ukrainian children, families, our homes, freedom and democracy in the world,” Zelenskyy told reporters as he stood with Biden in the White House’s Oval Office in the afternoon. It was Zelenskyy’s sixth meeting with Biden since the Russian invasion.
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Missing the Point: Challenging Our Core Assumptions
We need our own arsenal of nuclear weapons, more scary than anyone else’s, because “no one wins a nuclear war” and “mutually assured destruction” was the only deterrent to their use.
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Pakistani Military’s Unpromising Tryst with the Tehrik-e-Taliban
Taliban’s return to power is profiting both its long-standing allies and new friends. According to a recent UN report, the Al-Qaida (AQ) is able to reclaim safe havens in Afghanistan in the wake of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s growing bonhomie with Taliban’s head, Hebatullah Akhundzada.
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Ukraine, Putin’s Death Camp for Hope
A former colleague and good friend told me a quote, “Just when you think humanity has reached its lowest point, the bottom drops out and you find that there are many, many more bottoms to come.”
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Ukraine’s Plead for a No-Fly Zone: Sometimes, you gotta be a ‘man’
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The first strategic mistake that the European Union and President Biden made with Russia’s
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Remains of two WWII soldiers identified in Holland and Belgium
Seventy-five years after the war DNA analyses bring two missing soldiers home. This year brought the good news that DNA
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European Generals to US NatSec Leaders: Act now to prevent Iran’s Proxy Hizballah from causing devastating third Lebanese war
Washington, DC – The High Level Military Group (HLMG), an international NGO made up of senior military leaders focused on the challenge of
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