Spook Shakeup
The American intelligence community is quickly becoming a dinosaur. It has to stop fighting the Cold War and transform itself to combat new security challenges, such as terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and rogue states - now.
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The American intelligence community is quickly becoming a dinosaur. It has to stop fighting the Cold War and transform itself to combat new security challenges, such as terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and rogue states - now.
There will be no shortage of people gnashing their teeth today when the United States —once again--meets with Iran in Baghdad over the issue of stabilizing Iraq.
The U.S. military has now made over 2 million individual deployments to Iraq and or Afghanistan. The preponderance, of course, has been our "ground-pounding" soldiers and Marines - many on multiple tours.
Pakistan may be the most important country Americans don't know is important. What happens in Islamabad profound affects the War on Terror, nuclear proliferation and the prospect of nuclear war.
Iran ratcheted up international nuclear tensions late last week by announcing it would resume (as soon as tomorrow) building nuclear centrifuges — an essential element in nuclear-weapons development.