Luis Rueda
The Realignment of the Middle East?
Last Friday, March 10, 2023, Iran and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to restore diplomatic relations after several years of suspension....
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Luis Rueda
- 6 days ago
- 6 min
Narco-Terrorism Rears Its Ugly Head
The recent kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico and the murder of two of those Americans has created a hue and cry in the United...
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Luis Rueda
- Mar 10
- 8 min
The Pitfalls of Covert Action
Coups, assassinations, clandestine radio stations, economic warfare, insurgency, and counterinsurgency are all the stuff of covert action....
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Luis Rueda
- Feb 1
- 7 min
Things That Go Bump in the Night and Bite Us in The Ass
Tenor As we enter 2023 we are focused and consumed by events in Ukraine, and rightly so. China and Taiwan also draw attention because of...
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Luis Rueda
- Jan 20
- 9 min
Reading History - War in the Pacific Part 2
In the US we mostly think of WWII starting on December 7, 1941, with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Sometimes we realize that it officially...
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Luis Rueda
- Jan 20
- 6 min
Reading History - WWII In the Pacific, Part 1
iStockphoto Background I grew up with certain impressions of World War II in the Pacific. Paramount was the image of the evil Japanese...
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Luis Rueda
- Jan 20
- 3 min
Reading History - Introduction
I love history. I read a lot of it, so I thought I would do some posts on things that strike me as interesting from my readings and make...
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Luis Rueda
- Jan 13
- 3 min
Change
Depending on your viewpoint, Taoism is a philosophy, religion, or both. A central tenet of Taoism is that Tao, the Way or the Path, is...
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Luis Rueda
- Jan 12
- 5 min
The Threat of Political Violence in America
Time In 2022 there was a sharp escalation of politically motivated violence in the United States. There were numerous threats against...
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Luis Rueda
- Dec 13, 2022
- 5 min
2022 - The Year of Instability
As 2022 draws to a close and I look back at the year, I notice the increased amount of instability in many of the major world powers. The...
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Luis Rueda
- Dec 5, 2022
- 5 min
Observations - 1. The Two-Party System
The United States has always had a two-party system, more or less. Although three have also been-and currently are-other political...
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Luis Rueda
- Nov 10, 2022
- 5 min
What Next for America?
I write this the day before the midterm elections. It is not really about the midterms, though these elections will be extremely...
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Luis Rueda
- Oct 21, 2022
- 4 min
The Coming Crisis
Our current political crisis continues to roll forward, picking up momentum like a snowball rolling downhill. The divisions in the nation...
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Luis Rueda
- Sep 26, 2022
- 5 min
The Lack of Civic Virtue in America
This is may seem outside my normal posts dealing with intelligence and national security, but is actually related because it affects the...
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Luis Rueda
- Sep 20, 2022
- 4 min
Ukraine
There has been considerable celebration over Ukraine's offensive against Russia. The Ukrainians have liberated large parts of their...
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Luis Rueda
- Aug 30, 2022
- 4 min
Trump and Classified Material at Mar-a-Lago
I normally try to avoid much of the political warfare going on in the US nowadays in this blog, but the recent FBI seizure of classified...
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Luis Rueda
- Aug 27, 2022
- 7 min
Morality and Intelligence...And Beyond
I was watching a portion of a podcast on TikTok, hence the watching rather than listening, where the concept of enhanced interrogation,...
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Luis Rueda
- Aug 15, 2022
- 11 min
The World's Foreign Intelligence Organizations
I periodically get asked which is the best intelligence agency in the world. There are a number of articles that try to answer that...
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Luis Rueda
- Aug 9, 2022
- 4 min
A Beginners Guide to Counterintelligence
Bridge of Spies Recently, I sat had dinner with an author specializing in intelligence matters. Over the course of the evening, we had...
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Luis Rueda
- Jul 13, 2022
- 5 min
Is The CIA Risk Averse?
Much has been written in the media about the CIA being risk-averse. Even some former CIA officers have commented on how the CIA avoids...
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