After Chattanooga: Another armed man shows up outside a recruiting center
A well-regulated militia.
View ArticleParis, the Russian airliner, Lebanon: ISIS is enlarging the war
The center cannot hold.
View ArticleAfter Paris, post-NATO ‘solution’ for Syria blasts off without U.S.
War without leadership.
View ArticleTOC Ready Room 17 Jan 2022: Rumors of war; Antisemitic attack in Texas
This will be the roughest and readiest of Ready Rooms. What I want to focus on is insights readers may not have gleaned from elsewhere on two important topics. The first is Russia and Ukraine, and on...
View ArticleTOC Ready Room 8 Feb 2022: Domestic terror alert results “changing quickly,”...
Just a short update for Tuesday, as sites across the Web take note of a new National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin published on 7 February 2022. The bulletin is not hard to interpret. It says the...
View ArticleTOC Ready Room 29 March 2022: Eyes front (not back), on attacks in Israel
This will be a brief Ready Room; basically little more than a string of tweets. But it’s important. The subject is the terror attacks in Israel in recent days, which have now taken the lives of 11...
View ArticleIsrael: Rumors of war in a world transformed
On 9 April 2023, Israeli Arabist scholar and former intelligence officer Mordechai Kedar published an article recounting information recently received from an associate he describes as a source he has...
View ArticleWinds of war: Why is this “Hamas” attack different from all other attacks?
[Note: I am going to post this as-is, although several updates from Tuesday would merit discussion. This just needs to get posted, for the initial point if for nothing else. I’ve added a “Bonus...
View ArticleThe Navy shuffle: Mixed signals with Biden visit to Israel
The signals being sent with President Biden’s visit to Israel on Wednesday may not be that mixed. It remains to be seen. But if they trend less mixed, we should be concerned that their purpose is to...
View ArticleBiden and special forces: A series of unfortunate events
It’s hard to know what to make of this. Many readers will be familiar with the recent social media posting by President Biden’s staff in which the faces of Delta Force members were shown, and on two...
View ArticleHow not to do deterrence
Whatever the Biden administration is doing about deterrence and containment in the Middle East – if we assume what’s going on is meant to achieve deterrence and containment – is unfolding in a peculiar...
View ArticleOn Biden policy in the Middle East: A timeline tells a tale
Sometimes timelines speak louder than argument. We’ve found that on a number of occasions in the last several years, and a fresh occasion has arisen in that regard. Two events on Sunday, 26 November...
View Article“Totally defensive” in the Middle East: The void and the non-deterrence
It doesn’t help that the U.S. military chain of command was basically, as far as we can see right now, in Status Unknown around the New Year. It’s being reported that neither the National Security...
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