Special to WorldTribune.com Acting in the wake of the Islamic terrorist attacks throughout Paris, Special Operations Speaks (SOS) and its 150,000 petition signers today renewed its call for Congress to demand that the State Department freeze the Obama refugee relocation plan “until all vetting protocols are released and the number of ISIL fighters that have […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct The French capital was under siege again as a brazen, coordinated attack on six popular Parisian locations was carried out on Nov. 13 by what is almost certainly an Islamic terrorist group, probably the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). The attackers apparently acted in near […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct A new survey by California’s Chapman University has identified cyberterrorism as one of the American public’s greatest fears, a national security threat that hits home at all levels. Cyberterrorism occupied a high place on the list of fears, in part, because participants in the survey viewed cyberterrorism […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders If there were one lesson from America’s tragic Vietnam encounter – and as some dead white man has said, all historical analogies are odious — it is that incremental approaches to war inevitably result in disaster. News reports suggest that President Barak Obama is reversing his strategy of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The United States is concerned that Russian submarines or deep sea submersible vessels could sever or damage fiber-optic cables that carry 95 percent of global communications. Officials told The New York Times that Russian submarines and a ship carrying deep sea submersible craft have been spotted near American shores. The Times report cited an […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The South China Sea is “international waters” and the United States will treat it as such, the new U.S. chief of naval operations (CNO) said. “That is everybody’s sea. You know 30 percent of the world’s trade goes through the South China Sea. Nobody owns that. It’s open. It’s international waters,” Richardson […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi said the panel is not on a political witch hunt against Hillary Clinton but is determined to get to the truth of what happened when four Americans were killed in the terror attack on Sept. 11, 2012. The focus of the Benghazi hearing […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) hackers are looking to take down the U.S. energy grid, according to the FBI. The terror group’s hackers have attempted cyberattacks in the U.S., but aren’t skilled enough to succeed, the FBI said. Still, though, ISIL may have the cash to fund cyberattacks on U.S. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders This column was written on Oct. 17. On Oct. 19, Justin Trudeau and the Liberals swept to power in Canada’s elections and Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced his resignation from the Conservatives. Americans were reminded this week of what a tried sand true friend it has in its […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct The head of Great Britain’s equivalent of the FBI says the threat from radicalized Islamist recruits is posing the highest threat in over a decade to British security. Andrew Parker, head of MI5, the UK’s domestic security, in remarks posted on the MI5 website, detailed his concerns: […]