The past decade has shown us a world shaped by enormous upheaval and uncertainty. In just the past year, we’ve seen organized terrorist attacks in France, Lebanon, Kenya, and other countries; wholesale regime change in many countries, and a new global threat in the form of ISIS. We’re also faced with a highly volatile economic […]
The war is here, and it really doesn’t care if you want to be a part of it…
Many yesterday asked what the world was coming to, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in Nice, France that has claimed the lives of more than 80 people… And while many here in the United States are shocked, this is what most of the world has experienced over the last twenty years: an increasingly volatile […]
Thoughts on the Paris Attacks
In 2010, I attended a conference in Paris led by Interpol, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the French National Police on the topic of “Terrorism and the Radicalization of Youth.” The fear then was that US and EU citizens would become radicalized through internet propaganda by groups like Al-Qaeda or AQAP. Some […]