Marcus Aurelius: New York City In Your Pants – And Now Able to Shoot Down Airplanes

With CIA Help, NYPD Moves Covertly In Muslim Areas Associated Press, 24 August 2011 NYC police chief: We can shoot down airplanes CBS News, 26 September 2011 Phi Beta Iota:  On the one hand, NYPD’s capabilities are vastly exaggerated.  They’re still feeling their way, wasting enormous human and financial resources, “because they can.”  On the …

Review: Lines of Fire – A Renegade Writes on Strategy, Intelligence, and Security

Ralph Peters 5.0 out of 5 stars Six Star Epilogue, the Capstone Work, September 26, 2011 I have been a fan of Ralph Peters for over fifteen years now, going back to the early 1990’s when the US Marine Corps was trying to get the Secretary of Defense (then Dick Cheney) to focus on most …

Chuck Spinney: How Incestuous Amplification Leads to Treason

9-11: Incestuous Amplification Highjacks the American OODA Loop Mark Danner has written a brilliant exegesis (also attached below) of how the collective leadership of the United States dragged an entire nation off its moral rails in its reaction to 9-11. It is long but well worth the reading investment. While Danner does not use the …

Chuck Spinney: Turkey Rising &

Erdogan’s Gambit: Turkey Rising by PATRICK COCKBURN, Counterpunch, 13 September 2011 The Turkish Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, arrived in Egypt yesterday at the start of a three-nation tour as Turkey toughens its stance towards Israel and seeks to become the predominant power among Muslim states in the Middle East and North Africa. After Egypt, Erdogan …

Reference: World Almanac of Islamism + RECAP

The American Foreign Policy Council’s World Almanac of Islamism is a comprehensive resource designed to track the rise or decline of radical Islam on a national, regional and global level. This database focuses on the nature of the contemporary Islamist threat around the world, and on the current activities of radical Islamist movements worldwide. Click …

Reference: Stray Dogs and Virtual Armies – Radicalization and Recruitment to Jihadist Terrorism in the United States Since 9/11

Since September 11, 2001, so-called “homegrown terrorists,” working alone or with others, have planned and in some cases implemented terrorist activities, contributed financial or other material support to others’ terrorist activities, or become radicalized in the United States and then traveled to other countries to conduct terrorist activities directed against those countries or against the …