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More Reasons to Distrust China – The Cyber Cold War [Part II]

[Follow up to blog post, "China's 21st Century War to Destroy the U.S. | Wake up! We Are Losing!"] Something is very wrong. The number of press stories / pentagon reports / think-tank assessments and arbitrary Joe Geek office cube conversations revolving around Chinese Hackers continues to escalate and very little notice (publicly) appears to [...]

Will Iran Slap Obama’s Peace Overtures?

The Middle East – and Iran issue specifically – lies at the center of so many foreign policy hurdles for the United States. The pursuit of peace in the Middle East and the reestablishment of a legitimate U.N. entity can only start with a proven warming of relations between the U.S. and Iran. – A [...]

The Guardian | Leaked Report on Intelligence Failures in Afghanistan

The Guardian Newspaper (UK) yesterday reported on a confidential report leaked to the Press that outlines a ‘bleak picture of a counterinsurgency effort undermined by intelligence failures that at times border on the absurd.‘ This is on topic of recent comments by Army General David McKiernan – the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan – that [...]

Putin Makes it Official | Russia Wants Allies to Fight U.S. Global Imperialism

Last Wednesday (February 7th 2007) I took a flippant, and one might even suggest ‘sarcastic’ tone as I attempted compare and contrast the full-blown bravado of the prior year ‘Munich Conference on Security Policy‘ to that of the upcoming annual event. Despite my furious attempts to exaggerate or emphasize some of the more preposterous statements [...]

The Great Satan, NATO, and Putin’s Hypocrisy

As we all know – annual conferences are a great venue for peacock pride, barrel-chested bravado, and well-worn speeches full of optimism and strategy yet hollow on truth and outcome. The annual Munich Conference on Security Policy is this and so much more. The conference, in its 43rd year, invites “the international security community – [...]

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