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HOLIDAY of the DAY (for those looking for a reason to stay home today) This is the 64th anniversary of the changing of William “Wild Bill” Donavan’s wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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When You Lay Down with Dogs …

The killing of seven intelligence officers in Khost [Afghanistan] by a double agent brings to the fore the problems we are having with intelligence, in general, and human intelligence (HUMINT), in particular. Intelligence, general or HUMINT, is a mucky...

Published 01-12-2010 20:35 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Middle East, military, Intelligence, CIA, Afganistan, terrorism, counterterrorism
Iranian/American Hold ‘Em

Last time, I talked about the gambit being run by the US (holding out international gasoline sanctions against Tehran’s continued unsupervised nuclear activity) and Iran’s response (kidnapping of three Americans and the occupation of a southern...

Published 12-24-2009 13:04 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, Middle East, Israel, geopolitics, China, piracy, Iran, Turkey, military, Intelligence, CIA, Afganistan, Iraq
Iran Calls Our Bluff

I’ve discussed Iran’s nuclear weapons program in these pages before, but an incident occurred early Friday that has been under-reported. A small unit of special operators entered southern Iraq and occupied an oil well in an area that Iran...

Published 12-22-2009 4:33 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, Middle East, Israel, government, geopolitics, China, Iran, Russia, military, Intelligence, CIA, Iraq
Inscrutable

Just to set the record straight, President Obama, not Attorney General Holder, has decided to move the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trials [1] to New York’s Southern District. When he moved responsibility for the trials from DoD to DoJ and issued an executive...

Published 11-19-2009 16:38 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, government, New York, international relations, history, military, law, Intelligence, CIA, lunacy
AfPak and Obama

President Obama’s Afghan options may be complex, but the choice is simple – prevent Afghanistan and [perhaps] Pakistan from becoming sanctuaries for international terrorism, or lose the war. Those are the stakes. Mr Obama sent his general into the “good...

Published 11-05-2009 11:16 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, government, geopolitics, military, Afghanistan
After Containment, What?

The period between the close of hostilities in 1945 and the demise of the Soviet Union – nearly half a century – can be called the Age of Containment. The Grand Strategy of the United States was to contain the Soviet Union and its influence...

Published 10-21-2009 9:25 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, government, geopolitics, history, military
the Russians are Coming! the Russians are Coming!

In a scene reminiscent of the Cold War, two Russian fast attack submarines are “patrolling” off our East Coast. Back then, they would likely be loitering (submerged), awaiting the departure of one of our ballistic missile boats from refurbishing...

Published 08-13-2009 1:03 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: geopolitics, Russia, military
Rapting the Raptor

Largely obscured by the ObamaCare food fight, SecDef Robert Gates has made the closing of the Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor line at 187 planes (out of the contracted run of 381) as one of his major objectives in the FY2010 defense budget [1] . Reasons given...

Published 07-26-2009 4:18 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, economics, government, China, Russia, military
Мать Россия

Barack Obama has finished his first trip to Мать Россия (Mother Russia) and came away without headlines or “breakthroughs”. This is a success. Trust me, any surprises ( e.g ., headlines, breakthroughs) coming out of Putin’s Russia wouldn’t...

Published 07-10-2009 12:35 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Obama, geopolitics, Iran, Russia, military, Summitry, Poland, Eastern Europe
Memo to SecNav – You Missed a Golden Opportunity

Just as a Lockheed engineering pilot first flew the F-22 Raptor to exercise its systems and put it through its paces before turning it over to the Air Force for their evaluation, Northrop Grumman sailed the amphibious assault ship LPD 21 from its building...

Published 07-05-2009 8:54 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Obama, New York, military

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