Archive for August, 2007

God's Warriors (CNN Special by Christiane Amanpour

From Ed Beakley In light of religion’s impact on the 21st Century, consider the following upcoming special by Christiane Amanpour on CNN and article in the same context by Dr. Walid Phares, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies  ****************************************************************************************  CNN Presents: God’s Warriors   Jewish Warriors August 21  Muslim Warriors August 22 Christian Warriors August 23 9PM EDT By […]

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Creating a 21st Century Learning Environment

 From Ed Beakley, Project White Horse 084640 Director and Editor Research and writing for both the website and in-work book are based upon the premise that the effects of 1) information technology, 2) the flattening of the world through globalization, 3) Mother Nature, and 4) the emerging and steady state non-state nature of warfare, combine […]

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Multiple Terrorist Doctrine

 By Frank Borelli Not long ago I read through the book, “Terror At Beslan: A Russian Tragedy with Lessons for America’s Schools” by John Giduck  The book so convinced me that we in law enforcement are training for the wrong threat (Active Shooter) that I doubted my own thought process. So, to double check my […]

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On Forgetting the Obvious

 By Robert D. Kaplan  Some truths are so obvious that to mention them in polite company seems either pointless or rude. What is left unstated, however, can with time be forgotten. Both of these observations apply today to the American way of war. It is obvious that a military can only fight well on behalf […]

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New Paradigms for 21st Century Conflict

 By David J. Kilcullen  Despite our rather rosy hindsight view of World War II, there was considerable dissent at the time about the war’s aims, conduct, and strategy. But virtually no one disagreed that it was indeed a war or that the Axis powers were the enemy/aggressors.  Contrast this with the war on terrorism. Some […]

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