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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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a Calm Discussion about Iran

There are five seemingly unrelated issues regarding American relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran. First among them is the fact that Iran has been in an unresolved state of war against the Untied States since the Embassy takeover in 1979. It should...

Published 02-03-2012 5:40 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Israel, Iran, axcess bloggers, Foreign Policy
Iran’s New Toy

An hour after Iranian state television aired images purporting to show off a captured LockheedMartin RQ-170 Sentinel , General Norton Schwartz, the Air Force’s top uniformed officer, raised the specter of a foreign power copying the stealthy jet’s...

Published 12-13-2011 6:08 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: geopolitics, China, North Korea, Iran, Russia, science, Intelligence, CIA, axcess bloggers, technology
If Things Come in Threes …

You’ve heard it all your life … “good/bad things come in threes.” If that’s true, we could be in for a rough winter. There are, in fact, three situations coming to a head – the Eurozone financial crisis, a wholly new aspect to the Egyptian Spring, and...

Published 10-13-2011 11:19 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: economics, geopolitics, international relations, Iran, terrorism, axcess bloggers, Egypt, Europe
the Arab Spring

I have a folder containing sixty-eight country sheets, documenting the fallout from events sweeping North Africa and the Levant – the so-called Arab Spring. We have witnessed two major democratization waves: the post-colonial period and the post-Soviet...

Published 06-01-2011 8:15 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Middle East, Israel, Iran, Turkey, Poland, Africa, Iraq, axcess bloggers, Egypt, Libya, India
Clancy meets Creighton

According to reports Sunday in both the New York Times and Jerusalem Post , the US and Israel, with supporting roles played by Germany and England, created the stuxnet virus and unleashed it on Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant, destroying...

Published 01-16-2011 7:51 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Gee Whiz technology, Iran, CIA, axcess bloggers, NSA
Understanding Turkey

In a Realist sense, Turkey is key for the reason she has always been key – Turkey is the southern Eurasian interface, buffering European Russia from the Middle East and Persia from the Mediterranean. As a NATO member, Turkey is ideally placed to host...

Published 12-19-2010 6:18 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Middle East, geopolitics, Iran, Russia, Turkey, energy, Poland, Eastern Europe, axcess bloggers, Ukraine
TwitLeaks

When asked about possible damage being done and lives cost by serial leaks of classified and sensitive documents, WikiLeaks [1] director, Australian internet activist Julian Assange [2] , noted that he had no time to worry about such things as he had...

Published 11-30-2010 10:35 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Middle East, Israel, geopolitics, Iran, privacy, Intelligence, Afghanistan, Iraq, counterterrorism, axcess bloggers, the lunatic Left, WikiLeaks
a Dangerous, if Inevitable, Turn of Events

This June, computer systems at Iran’s first nuclear power plant at Bushehr discovered a potent new worm. “Studies conducted show some personal computers of the Bushehr nuclear power plant workers are infected with the virus,” the facility’s...

Published 09-30-2010 10:08 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Israel, geopolitics, Iran, science, Intelligence, counterterrorism, axcess bloggers, technology
Odds and Ends

S tate R aces Heavy-breathers on both sides of the aisle need to concern themselves with the “bottom” of the ballot this year, as well as the high-profile national races. This is the first election after a census, meaning that the newly elected...

Published 09-15-2010 7:08 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, Iran, Congress, law, Supreme Court, axcess bloggers, conservatism, liberalism
a Nuclear Iran

There is much hand-wringing over the prospect of a nuclear Iran. Too late. Iran is already a nuclear state – they just haven’t converted that capacity into the production of nuclear weapons yet. The regime has accumulated vastly more enrichment...

Published 09-10-2010 14:16 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Middle East, Israel, geopolitics, China, Iran, Russia, DPRK, science, axcess bloggers

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