Right Side NewsCol. Thomas Snodgrass, USAF (retired) served over a year in Peshawar, Pakistan, working with Pakistani military intelligence. During his year in Vietnam he daily scheduled 130 U.S. Army and Air Force intelligence collection aircraft. In his final overseas tour he was the U.S. Air Attaché behind the Iron Curtain in Warsaw, Poland. In total, Col. Snodgrass was variously an Intelligence Officer or an International Politico-Military Affairs Officer (military diplomat) serving duty tours in seven foreign countries, as well as teaching military history and strategy at the Air War College, US Air Force Academy, and USAF Special Operations School during a thirty-year military career. Additionally, he was awarded an Air Force scholarship to get a history master’s degree in revolutionary insurgent warfare at the University of Texas, as well as being granted a year’s educational sabbatical to teach and to write about international relations as an Air Force Research Associate in the graduate school at the Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami, Florida. Following the Air Force, Col. Snodgrass was an adjunct professor of military history for ten years at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Arizona.
Everyone with any interest in the subject of national security is aware of the looming $500 billion defense cut “sequestration” on January 1, 2013, that was foolishly agreed to by the Republican congressional leadership in exchange for a like sequestration of monies for the Democrats’ signature social welfare programs. Speaker of the House, Rep. John […]
President Obama claims he’ll have “more flexibility” after the election, and he is hoping to get reelected to exercise that flexibility on the coattails of the economic flim-flam of Quantitative Easing Three (QE3). QE3 is “inside the Beltway-speak” for creating inflationary conditions in order to make the dollar in your pocket worth less. “Why do […]
First, think about how society’s political correctness has retarded expansion of our oil and gas industries and distorted rational management of our forests. Instead of increasing the world’s energy supply by wisely developing our plentiful domestic energy resources, in the name of the political correctness’ global warming scam we allow OPEC to control the supply […]
In view of the public frustration with a decade of largely unsuccessful U.S. war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the impending cuts to the U.S. military budget, there is an active debate at present as to what military strategy and force structure should be fashioned for the future. Unfortunately, many taxpayers and most politicians are […]
Whether we admit it or not, Shari’a-allegiant Muslims throughout the world are at war with non-Islamic civilization, specifically including America and Israel, based on mandates in the Muslims’ sacred book, the Quran, and in Islamic law.