Forget the Alamo by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford This is a timely book given current national debates on culture...

Liaison: communication or cooperation which facilitates a close working relationship between people or organizations. Most intelligence...

Now that TRIGON had agreed to what the CIA calls "work inside," serious preparations had to be made before he departed for home, Moscow....

I am going to do something different. I am going to tell a story. First, I will set the background. This takes place in the 1970s, the...

First, I would like to apologize to the two or three people who read this blog for not posting in a while. My Editor/Producer and her...

Victor Davis Hanson: A nation's well-being hinges on only a few factors – is US teetering on the edge of ruin? | Fox News...

I have been wanting to write on this topic for a while and have had a few false starts. The problem is there really isn’t a typical day...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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

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...

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...