Hells on Earth: A Hobbesian Ranking of Peace, Democracy, Health and Freedom around the World
There are numerous think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and philanthropic institutions diligently and impressively working all around the globe today to bring us knowledge and...
The Gambia: African Intelligence Run Amok and the Prospects for Reform
F or a very long time Intelligence Studies has been dominated by analysis of the Five Eyes community, which is comprised of the...
The Bully Brothers: Why the World should be Happy about a Fake Cold War
As America slowly immolates under the creeping self-implosion of a chaotic and possibly incompetent new presidential administration, it is time to take a step...
‘Alternative Facts’ and Forced Migration: America, Muslim Countries, and the Refugee Crisis
There is an awful lot of emotional kvetching around the recent Trump executive order about banning entry to people from seven specific countries to...
The Davos Gauntlet: Xi vs. Trump over the Future of the World
Xi Jinping, the President of the People’s Republic of China, came to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to deliver a speech that...
No victory for Putin: The Trump dossier scandal
There is no doubt whatsoever that Russia has compiled ‘information’ on Trump. Russian intelligence considers it a rightful duty to compile information on persons...
Abu Dhabi: Boldly Building a National Security Scholarly Complex
Though few in the West took note of the occasion, back in late 2013 Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and...
The MacGuffin Presidency
As many Americans get prepared for the End of Times on January 20th with the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump and even larger swaths...
Aleppo:A Global Village of Idiots
"Aleppo” as a term has become something of a buzz word in the West that is still full of ignorance: while many have heard...
Manufactured Bogeyman: Trump, Mainstream Media, and Russian Hacking
The current America media coverage in the West on the Russian-hacking scandal has largely been used to further portray President-elect Donald Trump as either...