Terror at the border
With American attention diverted to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the economic crisis and a hard-fought national election, national security experts have largely overlooked the bitter countercartel war in Mexico. But that war, which is beginning to overlap the U.S. border, is only the forerunner...
Essay
By Derek Ruths - “A botnet is a geographically distributed group of computers, individually called zombies, which mindlessly perform instructions provided by a single computer called the command-control. In the past, botnets have been leveraged with great success by spammers: The command-control...”
DARTS & LAURELS
Muzzling the militaryTo the Pentagon for its heavy-handed attitude toward media seeking the personal opinions of service members in the run-up to the election. The Defense Department issued a blanket...
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This is absolutely necessary for the military to get a handle on this. As a Reservist who has gone through this continuum, and having many friends and colleagues who have done the same, I...
This is absolutely necessary for the military to get a handle on this. As a Reservist who has gone through this continuum, and having many friends and colleagues who have done the same, I...
COMMENTARY
Perspectives
Ralph Peters
If our troops shot as wildly as our politicians and bureaucrats fire off words, we’d never win a single firefight. The inaccurate terminology tossed about by presidents and pundits alike obscures the nature of the threats we face, the character of our enemies and the inadequacies of our...
Ralph Peters
If our troops shot as wildly as our politicians and bureaucrats fire off words, we’d never win a single firefight. The inaccurate terminology tossed about by presidents and pundits alike obscures the nature of the threats we face, the character of our enemies and the inadequacies of our...
Perspectives
SHARON A. HOUY
Government bureaucracies are not typically as hospitable to change as private industry, nor are they generally comfortable with adopting corporate practices. Understandably, the idea of borrowing a mergers-and-acquisitions framework from the private sector can be daunting within the confines of a...
SHARON A. HOUY
Government bureaucracies are not typically as hospitable to change as private industry, nor are they generally comfortable with adopting corporate practices. Understandably, the idea of borrowing a mergers-and-acquisitions framework from the private sector can be daunting within the confines of a...
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