How the West has aided democracy’s decline
According to Presidents John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, the United States is a shining “city upon a hill." It’s a beacon of democracy in a dark world full of cruel dictators and vicious despots. But h...
15 Feb 201731min
The security costs to barring refugees and creating civilian ‘safe zones’
President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily restricting travel from seven Muslim-majority countries and halting the U.S. refugee program. One week later, after several legal challenge...
7 Feb 201725min
Russia's hybrid war against the West
War has changed in the 21st century and combat is not always kinetic. Russia’s battlefields are the internet, financial markets and television airwaves. The goal is not necessarily to take and hold te...
31 Jan 201735min
Magick as strategy in World War Two
Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, was obsessed with the occult. He attempted to read minds and used astrological star charts to inform his battle plans. On the allied side, English magician Aleister...
24 Jan 201732min
No, the Trump transition isn’t endangering U.S. nukes. Here’s what to really worry about
On Jan. 9, 2017, Gizmodo ran a story titled “Trump Just Dismissed the People in Charge of Maintaining Our Nuclear Arsenal.” The article published claims from unnamed members of the National Nuclear Se...
18 Jan 201728min
Tracking America’s ‘shadow wars’
Right now, America is fighting a war in Afghanistan – the longest in its history – a war against the Islamic State in the Middle East, a war against Islamic radicals in Pakistan, several different ope...
10 Jan 201736min
Churchill – the ‘glowworm’ who changed the fate of modern Europe
At the end of World War II, Winston Churchill lost his reelection bid for Prime Minister of England. The British Bulldog was down, but not out. He worried of a coming conflict with Stalin and the grow...
4 Jan 201739min
ICYMI: The drone that almost killed bin Laden
Months before 9/11, U.S. Air Force captain Scott Swanson patrolled the skies over Afghanistan with a Predator drone. Swanson and his team were hunting Osama bin Laden. And they found him. But this was...
29 Des 201633min
