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Luis Rueda

American Education and the 1619 Project

This is an extremely difficult topic to wrap myself around. There is a lot of anger and fear associated with this topic, as well as...

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Diversity AT CIA

Several years ago I was sitting with a group of friends. We had all worked together at the Agency, I had even worked for some of them....

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National Security Background - Iran

As I noted in my previous post on national security background, we need to understand the other side, we need to view the situation from...

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I Need an Argument for Guns

I say this seriously, not as a joke. I have always owned guns, I like guns. I have been trained by some fine instructors on the use of a...

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How To Use Intelligence

This seems like an obvious thing but most people without experience in the national security field, and even some with that experience,...

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Intelligence and HUMINT

This is a hard topic to get started. The difficulty lies in how to explain this to people who don’t do it for a living. There is so much...

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World War II in the Pacific

I just finished reading Ian W. Toll’s Pacific War Trilogy. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in WWII in the Pacific, or in...