During the primary and the general election, candidate Donald Trump repeatedly made statements that indicated that he supported a stringent immigration policy which could possibly be used to deal with the threat posed by lone wolf attacks on the homeland. A question begs, is a strong immigration policy a substitute…
The author previously addressed The Evolution of Trump’s Plans to Defeat ISIS. Most notably, during the primary, and on multiple occasions throughout the general election, Donald Trump incessantly offered different iterations on how he intended to defeat ISIS. Now that he is president-elect, this post addresses some of the issues…
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow with the Foundation of the Defense of Democracies, remarked, “One of the biggest counterterrorism concerns for the United States and its allies since the attacks of September 11, 2001, has been managing the dangers posed by ungoverned spaces.”[1] Unfortunately, the U.S. counterterrorism strategies have yet…
President Obama’s Controversial Legacy as Counterterrorism-in-Chief is the subject of this post. There are a host of questions that are addressed herein. For example, what were some of the critical counterterrorism objectives that were introduced and subsequently implemented by the president? Then a second significant question is addressed: what ultimately…
The emergence of the Islamic State represented a major challenge for the Barack Obama administration. Having incessantly stated that Al Qaeda had been decimated, President Obama overlooked, and in eyes of many in the U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism communities, refused to come to grips with the threat posed by the…
As mentioned in a previous post, a subsequent post would provide an analysis of the Clinton and Trump plans to defeat the Islamic State. This post is designated for that purpose. The post will address two critical queries. As the presidential election intensifies, a series of significant questions surround the…