Category Archives: Nationsmith Longform
Homeland Security and Intelligence: Grand Strategy, Outcomes, and Priorities
By K. David Du I. Introduction: The Great Game In her essay “Spying Blind”, Amy Zegart asserts that due to the ineptitude of policymakers and intelligence professionals, intelligence reform and opportunities have been squandered and priorities ignored. In her essay, she attributes these missed opportunities to craven political leaders, organizational squabbles, and bureaucratic resistance […]
Defeating Al Qaeda, an Endgame to the Longest War
By K. David Du (@Kentsinoroyale) I: Defining the Enemy For many Americans, the public perception of the terrorist network Al Qaeda is that it is an unbeatable organization. The perception assumes that because global terrorism, or more specifically “terror”, is an ideal and ideals are ultimately indestructible. Therefore, they assume the Global War on […]
The Internet of Everything and the Border
By K. David Du (@Kentsinoroyale) I. A Revolution of Technology and the Physical Security of the Border There is a revolution happening from within our homes, our workspaces, and throughout the globe. The world has been fundamentally changed by the internet and information technology and without other words to qualify; the world is increasingly […]
Homeland Security: Asymmetrical Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Intelligence
I. Introduction: The Great Victory, Reshaping the World, and an Inauspicious Day With the collapse of Communism at the end of the Cold War, then President of the United States George Bush proclaimed, in heavily Wilsonian inspired language, about the creation of a new world order from the ashes of the Cold War: We have […]
Holy Words and Holy Wars
Within the sacred texts of many religions, particularly the Abrahamic ones there are written words, statements, and verses that incite its readership to commit violence and literally annihilate infidels, apostates, and enemy peoples. These holy books, being the literal and inspired word of God, are considered by true believers as infallible, true, and historic in […]
Separatism: An Internal Chinese Problem
Nationsmith Writer K. David Du wrote an article about an important aspect of China: separatist movements within China. This article was written in 2008 at the height of the Tibetian Uprising in China. China, arguably, is the world’s oldest continual civilization, a civilization that has continued to thrive for over three thousand years since its […]
War and the Four Constraints: The NEFA Files
In our last discussion, I focused on the four constraints that complicate how the United States Military fights its wars against violent, non-state actors. The constraints are operational, organizational, legal, and moral in their handicap. Because of these constraints, modern war fighters, law enforcement officers, and other domestic security authorities must face a multitude of […]
Homeland Security, the Intelligence Community, Policymakers, and Intelligence Failures
Introduction: The World We Inherited There’s an amazing quote by former DCI James Woosley as he explained his vision of post-Cold War world to the Senate Intelligence Committee, “We have slain a large dragon. But we live now in a jungle filled with a bewildering variety of poisonous snakes. And in many ways, the […]
Intelligence in Irregular Warfare: A case study on Ireland and Afghanistan
Nationsmith Writer K. David Du writes about a comparative intelligence essay about Michael Collins’s IRA insurgency in Ireland (1915-1920) and compares it to the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan Michael Collins and the IRA Under siege by British invaders for hundreds of years, the Irish were an occupied people who had relinquished self-sovereignty and autonomy […]
Images of War and Peace: Just War Theory with a Realist Edge
By K. David Du Nationsmith writer K. David Du asks whether there is a need to redefine the Just War Theory and prescribes his recommendations on what must change. War. No word better confides to its listener the horrors of human nature. Whether the word is “guerre” in French, “krieg” in German, war in […]
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