#14 — Behind Al Haig’s 1981 ‘I’m in control here’ statement

#14 — Behind Al Haig’s 1981 ‘I’m in control here’ statement

Top 2014 Stories Special to WorldTribune.com, March 19, 2013 By Greg Davis, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr. — onetime U.S. Secretary of State, National Security Advisor to the U.S. President, Supreme Allied Commander-Europe (SACEUR), and more — died three years ago, but his legacy remains. An action […]

Decline of the West: Seven strategic ramifications of Crimea’s return to Russia

Decline of the West: Seven strategic ramifications of Crimea’s return to Russia

Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory R. Copley, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Crimea’s March 16, 2014, referendum to join Russia — there were only two options: join now, or join later — marked a significant watershed in the post-post-Cold War restructuring of the global strategic architecture. Not because it was so geopolitically surprising, but because it was […]

Evil empire II: Echoes of Reagan in Santorum’s ‘Satan’ speech

Evil empire II: Echoes of Reagan in Santorum’s ‘Satan’ speech

Times247.com Like vampires fleeing a cross, the secular world shudders and trembles at the sight of Rick Santorum delivering a speech about good and evil at Ave Maria University in Florida in 2008.Santorum’s statement came 25 years after another much-maligned social conservative, Ronald Reagan, delivered a similarly fiery but much-needed statement in Florida in 1983.As […]