by Peter Huessy (An address to the Precision Strike Association and the National Defense Industrial Association, at the Johns Hopkins University, October 21, 2014) INTRODUCTION: A year ago, in trying…
by Dr. Larry Franklin ISIS-led anti-government Sunni Islam coalition troops have virtually surrounded Baghdad. Iraq’s largest province, al-Anbar, is almost totally occupied by anti-regime forces. Only a portion of Fallujah…
by Orange County Register What’s the saddest statistic of the political season? Here’s one contender: a Google search for the phrase “Obama ISIS buck pass” yields about 478,000 results. That’s…
Lessons Learned? Or Repeating the Same Mistakes? by George Landrith • Frontiers of Freedom When Ronald Reagan was asked what his plan was for dealing with the…
by Dr. Lawrence Franklin There are 114 chapters (suras) in the Koran. There are 30 parts as the early Muslims wanted the recitation of the entire Koran to be framed…
by David Rutz • Free Beacon It was a quote striking for its flippant tone even in January, as President Obama compared the terrorist group Islamic…
by the Editorial Board of the New York Post When he campaigned for re-election two years ago, President Obama repeatedly reassured us al Qaeda had been “decimated” and “is on…
by Dr. Laurie Ann Mylroie President Obama’s handling of the Gaza conflict marks a sharp break with his attitude toward other Middle East conflicts, as well as the policies of previous…
by Dr. Lawrence A. Franklin Despite its string of spectacular atrocities, Boko Haram is but a superficial byproduct of the deeply flawed Nigerian state. Nigeria is ridden with fatal fissures that…
by Adam Kredo The State Department’s Counter Terrorism (CT) Bureau promoted on Friday a controversial Muslim scholar whose organization has reportedly backed Hamas and endorsed a fatwa authorizing the murder…
Hiding the Threat of Islamic Terrorism by Peter Huessy A video sharply critical of Islam and Mohammed, “Innocence of Muslims”, was first posted to the Internet in July 2012. Two…
by Peter Huessy On December 3, 2007 the US intelligence community released an NIE or National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. A month later, on January 1, 2008, “All the Shah’s…
In a landmark speech that recalibrated a central tenet of US foreign policy, President Barack Obama in May (2103) declared the global war on terror over. What seemed optimistic then…
The search, now 30 years old, for Iranian “moderates” goes on. Amid the enthusiasm of the latest sighting, it’s worth remembering that the highlight of the Iran-contra arms-for-hostages debacle was…
by Shawn Manning In November 2009, my Army Reserve Medical Detachment reported to Fort Hood, Tex., in preparation for deployment to Afghanistan. As we waited in line at the base’s processing…