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See Targeted for death -  the killing of Hamas’ Mahmoud Mabhouh.  (See  background report on the operation itself)
Los Angeles Times’ Marjorie Miller sought the views of an array of military and human rights lawyers on the legality and legitimacy of targeted killings.
So what kind of war or warfare or confrontation or conflict against non-state actors is [...]

Essential Elements of Information for a Culture of Preparedness
There seems to be a trend toward treating events of terrorism as if they were specifically a law-enforcement problem , rather than  enemy operations in the context of war and warfare. Both require application of force  “but for force to be effective the desired outcome of its [...]

 Speach by Robert Mueller, Director FBI, to the Council on Foreign Relations, New York City, 28 Sept, 2007
Two weeks ago, not far from here, bells tolled at Ground Zero. We commemorated the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. And we marked the passage of another year without a terrorist attack on American soil.
It is [...]

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 Christiane Amanpour http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/gods.warriors/  [...]

 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 to [...]

 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 understanding, [...]

 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 of [...]

 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 dispute the [...]

Dean Barnett
 
In the 1960s, history called the Baby Boomers. They didn’t answer the phone.

Confronted with a generation-defining conflict, the cold war, the Boomers–those, at any rate, who came to be emblematic of their generation–took the opposite path from their parents during World War II. Sadly, the excesses of Woodstock became the face of the Boomers’ [...]

From Robert Schwenk in response to e-mail on “school survival:
Interesting thoughts… as a veteran of the Texas Sniper, I can relate to the concept of “…instant chaos can happen instantaneously and end almost as abruptly…”.  That day in Austin 1966 was just before I joined the Navy and I was on the U of Texas [...]

Updated 26 April, Original 21 March, 2007
 In the wake of the Virginia Tech incident, must spend time thinking about the broader environment of their work place.
Some time ago, I was struck by author Alvin Toffler’s quote that the illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read nor write, but rather [...]

6 April, 2007 
Received by e-mail and posted by PWH
Will you give this to my Daddy?
As a Company, Southwest Airlines is supporting “Red Fridays.”
Last week I was in Atlanta, Georgia attending a conference. While I was in the airport, returning home, I heard several people behind me beginning to clap and cheer. I immediately turned [...]

22 Feb, 2007
The next step for this website will be to establish a forum for exchange of ideas. This will require development of “operational threads” for future editions.  The thrust is not the day-day of terrorism or HLS but rather questions regarding the long term implications to leaders and decision makers in light of a [...]