Summary: Over the past year, events in the Middle East, including most notably the Arab Spring, have dramatically altered the security landscape facing the nation of Israel, as well as the national security interests of the United States in the region.  While each of these events have been well cataloged separately and in greater...
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It seems as though it is now understood and was even at the time, that the September 11th attacks marked the true demarcation line between the 20th and 21st centuries. The 20th century, filled though it was with both innovation and horror in equal measure, was nevertheless the “modern” century. And on that September...
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I recently attended a briefing by a former NYPD counterterrorism official on the risk to the United States from so-called “Lone Wolf” terror attacks. Generally speaking a “Lone Wolf” is a terrorist who is not a member of any larger international or domestic terrorist organization, who launches a terrorist attack utilizing only what weapons...
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On the 9th of March, 1916, Pancho Villa led 100 members of his Mexican revolutionary army across the United States border and attacked the town of Columbus, New Mexico.  Eighteen Americans were killed in the attack and the Mexicans took 100 horses and military supplies stored in the town.  Incensed by this invasion of...
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Roaches scatter when the lights go on. Hollywood movies have taught us that once the hero has shined a light on the doers of evil, bringing troubling matters to light, the cops swoop in, the bad actors are rounded up, the credits roll, and the camera pans up to...
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In the days following the killing of arch-terrorist Osama Bin Laden, a number of things have come sharply into focus. One of them, the duplicity of our supposed ally “Pakistan,” which claims to have been blissfully unaware of Bin Laden’s immense residence and safe house, located smack dab in the middle of Abbottabad, one...
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A Victory for Moral Clarity By Sarah N. Stern Today is a great day to be an American. The news of the capture and the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the man who was responsible for the largest terror attack in history on American soil — the very icon of evil — was killed...
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America is a nation that was born in religious freedom. As a community,  Jews have found safe harbor and  true emancipation on these shores.  When my father came here, fleeing Nazi Germany, he cried when the ship passed the Statue of Liberty. He and his generation profoundly loved what this country stands for. He...
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The failed cargo bomb plot in Yemen, which occurred just days before the American mid-term elections on November 2, are once again an excellent microcosm of the problems facing America and the West. The bombs were found only after two cargo planes had been intercepted, one in Dubai and one in England, and after...
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The U.S-backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other members of his government reportedly are meeting with members of the Taliban to discuss a possible peace deal. According to The New York Times, the meetings apparently include members of the Taliban’s highest authority, the Quetta Shura, as well as members of the Haqqani network, although...
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