09/13/11 by Richard Weitz Like Robbin Laird, I too found myself at the Pentagon on the morning of September 11, 2001. At the time I was going to work at a nearby federally foundered research and development corporation that supported several Defense Department programs. The company had shuttle buses that…
09/10/2011 In this video, workers are seen turning steel from the September 11th destruction of the World Trade Center into a ship that will operate for decades in taking the fight back out into the global arena. The ship was built in New Orleans. Twenty-four tons of steel from the…
By Tetsuo Kotani, Special Research Fellow, the Okazaki Institute, Tokyo Strategic Insights, No. 31, March 2011 09/08/2011 - Surrounded by the sea on all sides, Japan enjoys the benefits of the waters around it in the form of fishery and maritime trade with countries around the world. However, these waters…
By Dr. Richard Weitz (Credit: Bigstock) 09/05/2011 - Turkish President Abdullah Gu, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu have recently warned that they might side with the Syrian protesters if the Syrian government did not order the security forces to end their massive violence against the…
An Exclusive Interview with the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Reported by George Talbot [caption id="attachment_23671" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Adm. Mark P. Fitzgerald, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa, right, escorts Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead to an all-hands call at Naval Support Activity Naples. Credit: USN Visual…
09/06/2011 by Ed Timperlake On Monday November 8, 2010 the Southern Chester Weekly (Pa.) published an obituary for a fallen Marine. “William McCurdy DeMarino, 20, died suddenly on October 24, 2010, in an automobile accident where he was stationed in North Carolina. He was serving as a Lance Corporal in…
09/03/2011 By Robbin Laird Labor Day is a transition from the summer to the fall; it is a turning of the page as we go into a new academic year. Those of us who have been students or have children who are students understood a new year is in front…
09/03/2011 by Robbin Laird In a recent piece, Ed Timperlake discussed the strategic significance of moving on from older paradigms to ensure US national security. He argued that One of the great plot devices in suspense and horror movies is the surprise ending, just name the threat; zombies, aliens, vampires…
