by Dave Patterson | Jan 8, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
As the ramifications sink in regarding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s decision to keep his recent hospitalization a secret, questions of the worst kind are arising. When the story first broke about Austin being in Walter Reed National Medical Center’s...
by Dave Patterson | Jan 2, 2024 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
Generally, predictions are tricky. However, predictability has been the hallmark of the Biden administration: no national security problems are solved. When the US president blunders, he doubles down and sticks with what he knows – missteps, procrastination, and...
by Dave Patterson | Sep 28, 2023 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
Seven Republicans vying for the US presidency took the stage at Simi Valley’s Ronald Reagan Presidential Library for the second GOP debate. As it turned out, the seven were a handful for the moderators, Fox’s Dana Perino and Stuart Varney and...
by Dave Patterson | Jul 29, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
Congress believes it needs more transparency on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) – and perhaps it does. In other words, legislators want to take “U” out of UAPs. The House Oversight Committee’s National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs...
by Joe Schaeffer | Jun 28, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
It’s an intriguing question: At what point does one of America’s richest men giving $50 million to the country’s number one geopolitical rival amount to a national security threat? Billionaire Bill Gates on June 15 announced he was shelling out $50 million as part of...