By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) The Club of Presidential Losers in an exclusive club with only a handful of members. John McCain and Bob Dole are sitting on the sofa drinking brandy and trading pain killers. […]
Category: Politics
My Highly Educated Prediction for Election Night
There are four things about Tuesday I know for sure: 1) 40% of America will be happy with the outcome. 2) 40% of America will not be happy with the outcome. 3) 20% of Americans […]
War and the Four Constraints: The NEFA Files
In our last discussion, I focused on the four constraints that complicate how the United States Military fights its wars against violent, non-state actors. The constraints are operational, organizational, legal, and moral in their handicap. […]
Even Will Smith Couldn’t Hack It in West Philadelphia
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) No republican presidential candidate has won Pennsylvania in the Fresh Prince era (since 1988); however Mitt Romney is attempting to buck that trend by changing his campaign plans and heading to […]
Homeland Security, the Intelligence Community, Policymakers, and Intelligence Failures
Introduction: The World We Inherited There’s an amazing quote by former DCI James Woosley as he explained his vision of post-Cold War world to the Senate Intelligence Committee, “We have slain a large dragon. […]
Chris Christie Swallows Pride, Later a Rotisserie Chicken
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) Chris Christie was a guest on Piers Morgan Tonight tonight to discuss the devastation left by Hurricane Sandy. In that interview he heaped praise on Barack Obama for his leadership in […]
The Presidential Campaign is on it’s Period
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) The presidential campaign may be put on hold because there will be a steady flow of water for four days on the east coast. When the media sensationalizes a natural disaster […]
Intelligence in Irregular Warfare: A case study on Ireland and Afghanistan
Nationsmith Writer K. David Du writes about a comparative intelligence essay about Michael Collins’s IRA insurgency in Ireland (1915-1920) and compares it to the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan Michael Collins and the IRA Under […]
The Fight for Number 3
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) Tuesday night in Chicago Gary Johnson (Libertarian), Jill Stein (Green), Virgil Goode (Constitution), and Rocky Anderson (Justice) met for the third party presidential debate. Jill Stein is lucky she got out […]
Obama Was Dealt Pocket Aces
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) Contrary to the first two debates being heavily focused on the economy, tonight’s debate focused on foreign policy. Obama was elected for two reasons in 2008. We had a Republican president […]
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