By Jamie McIntyre
Steve Valley, an Army public affairs specialist who spent two years in Iraq, has been bugging me to read his book “Inside the Fortress,” and so in response to his entreaties, I moved it to the top of the stack of books by my bedside. It’s not a long book, but I skipped to the chapter on the news media, and found a shocking revelation.
Read MoreRand Beers, Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs Directorate
U.S. Department for Homeland Security, on why the case of alleged Christmas Day bomber Umar Abdulmutallab, was a “failure of analysis”. From The Heritage Foundation’s National Security Bloggers Luncheon, March 3, 2010
The dirty little secret is that what saved the Pentagon from disaster was the fact the gunman was unaware of a gaping hole in Pentagon security, and therefore fortunately didn’t know how to exploit it.
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With all the discussion of the hazard of runaway Toyotas, why does no one seem to mention the easy way to save lives. I find it astonishing that any driver of a modern car could be unaware that to disengage the engine from the drive train you simply PUT THE CAR IN NEUTRAL.
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While I appreciated the film’s gritty verisimilitude and its evocative portrayal of the unremitting stress of irregular warfare, the movie is marred by its inaccurate depiction of some aspects of the military ethos. And that bothered me.
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If North Korea, or Iran were to threaten the world with a nuclear armed missile, I would like to know — and I would like for THEM to know — we have a good chance of bringing it down over their territory.
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“A guy, we can’t tell you who, told us something, we can’t tell you what, that makes us think you’re a terrorist, but we can’t tell you why.” Our nation is defined, not by the attacks upon us, but our response.
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