National Security

A Conversation with Ukraine’s Counterintelligence Division, the SBU As the world watches the brutal Russian military action against Ukraine, we are seeing the limitations of the Russian army.  Ukrainian forces …

“A transition in Iran’s tactical approach, a leaner and more deadly surrogate, and serious impacts on U.S. interests and regional stability”.   Background The U.S. administration under President Biden has …

Vladimir Putin is a truly evil man. But he is not a mad man. A mad man wouldn’t be able to run Russia for as long as Putin has, so …

Among the lessons we are learning from Putin’s attack on Ukraine is that there is more than one way to use intelligence to influence world events.  In the press of …

Things are not going as planned for Mr. Putin. The Ukrainian army did not seem to get the message that they were doomed from the start. Much less, the people …

Sunzi (Sun-Tzu) tends to overshadow the rest of the commentary on classic Chinese military theory. The translations are too many to count and just the famous ones include Giles, Griffith, …

“A foreign policy venture under the sway of the Iranian militias and the resurgence of the Islamic State” Background  Iraq, for nearly two decades, since the fall of the Iraqi …

The sudden and all-but-total withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan has caught the world by surprise. Since mid-August, the discourse has focused on the chaotic nature of the pullout …

“Hezbollah, an indispensable ally to the world’s most notorious cartels, an existential threat to the U.S. national security, and an entity that combines radical terrorism with narco-terrorism.” U.S. national security …

I was re-reading NSC-68 the other day (NSC-68 United States Objectives and Programs for National Security (fas.org), the height of bureaucratic geekiness. For those unfamiliar with the NSC process or …