Paging Terrorists: The MOSSAD Calling
3000 pagers exploded simultaneously across Lebanon, injuring hundreds of Hezbollah leaders and others carrying their pagers, and paralysing…
Read More »Nuclear Weapons in a Multi-Polar Authoritarian World: Assessing the Challenges
The rise of the 21st century authoritarian states and movements has driven change in the global…
Read More »A Look Back at the History of Exeter England
Margaret Rice, who is my sister, launched her latest book, The Chappell Family: Mayors and Merchants…
Read More »Putting AUKUS in Context
Three years have passed since the United States, Australia and United Kingdom announced on September 15…
Read More »Lieutenant General James F. Glynn: The New MARFORPAC Commander
Lieutenant General James F. Glynn has become the new MARFORPAC Commander. As Maj. Miraquel Ridenhour noted…
Read More »Lt. Gen. Karsten S. Heckl Transfers Command of MCCDC
Lieutenant General Eric E. Austin took command of Marine Corps Combat Development Command (MCCDC), Aug 9,…
Read More »NORDIC WARDEN Exercise: Protection of Critical Underwater Infrastructure
For the second time in its history, the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) activated a JEF Response…
Read More »The Biden-Harris Administration “Blitzkrieg Withdrawal from Afghanistan”: Looking Back at the Three Year Mark
The Afghan debacle is a major setback for any notion of U.S. leadership of the world…
Read More »India’s New Submarine Strengthens ‘No First Use’ Doctrine
A nuclear ‘no first use’ doctrine implies that a state does not adhere to using its…
Read More »The Emergence of the Multi-Polar Authoritarian World: Looking Back from 2024
We started our first website, Second Line of Defense in 2009. I started this venture with…
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