“Soon we will hold a military maneuver on how to close the Strait of Hormuz. If the world wants to make the region insecure, we will make the world insecure”
Category Archives: International
U.S. Intelligence Connects The Dots On Bin Laden
Status
Intelligence agencies are leveraging new surveillance technologies and IT architectures to facilitate information sharing in their anti-terrorism and other national security efforts. Continue reading
How A Little-Known Spy Agency Helped Track Down Osama Bin Laden
By all accounts, the intelligence agencies and the military operational headquarters worked together smoothly and swiftly. Continue reading
Libya vs Iraq
Eggs of Gold
The current attempt to cut the U.S. budget and try to revive our economy is making slow progress with few significant savings. The effort seems to focus on domestic spending; duplicative funding, earmarks, outdated programs, entitlements and items that can otherwise be sacrificed in difficult economic times
However, there isn’t much publicity about cuts to our foreign aid budget(s). Monetary assistance to governments and international organizations and programs can be found in many U.S. departmental funding requests. The Departments of Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Justice, Transportation and, of course Defense and State all have line items for foreign assistance. Continue reading
