Sept. 3, 2014 – Secure The Grid Coalition at National Press Club

by Scott Cooper on September 3, 2014 in Electro Magnetic Pulse, EMP, Frank Gaffney, Henry F. Cooper, Michael Maloof, Peace Through Strength, Peter Pry, Power Grid, Scott Cooper, Secure The Grid Coalition

Yesterday High Frontier Chairman Hank Cooper had the privilege of participating in a distinguished panel of experts at the National Press Club in Washington DC. The topics discussed included our perilous National Security situation on our southern border, especially as it relates to ISIS activity taking place in the Middle East. Also discussed was Homeland Security’s loss of some 6,000 students who have overstayed their student visas and are now unaccounted for.

All of these topics led to the most crucial purpose of this press conference – and that is to secure our national electric grid. Each of these esteemed participants are part of The Secure the Grid Coalition. Read Full Story

August 25, 2014—Wake-up The Dogs Not Barking!

by Scott Cooper on August 24, 2014 in EMP, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, Iran, Missile Defense, North Korea, Quick Fix

“There is now an increasing likelihood that rogue nations such as North Korea (and before long, most likely, Iran) will soon match Russia and China in that they will have the primary ingredients for an EMP attack: simple ballistic missiles such as SCUDs that could be launched from a freighter near our shores; space launch vehicles able to launch low- earth-orbit satellites; and simple low-yield nuclear weapons that can generate gamma rays and fireballs. In 2004, the Russians told us that their “brain drain” had been helping the North Koreans develop EMP weapons . . .” ~Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey Read Full Story

August 18, 2014—On Organizing Principles . . . Really!

by Scott Cooper on August 16, 2014 in EMP, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, Missile Defense, Quick Fix

“Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.” ~Private Citizen Hillary Clinton, The Atlantic, August 10, 2014 . . . “What difference at this point does it make?” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, January 23. 2013. Indeed???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka0_nz53CcM Read Full Story

August 11, 2014—Operation Pinprick . . .

by Scott Cooper on August 10, 2014 in Caliphate, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, Iraq, ISIS, Syria

“This is a pinprick. It’s almost worse than nothing because I fear the president is threatening and then he won’t follow through … It’s the weakest possible response and we cannot allow them [ISIS] to take Erbil. What [the administration has] done so far is almost meaningless.” ~Senator John McCain (R-AZ) Read Full Story

August 5, 2014—Delusional Defense . . .

by Scott Cooper on August 4, 2014 in EMP, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, Missile Defense, Quick Fix

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” ~Winston Churchill Read Full Story

July 29, 2014—Quick Fixes to Counter the Existential EMP Threat!

by Scott Cooper on July 28, 2014 in Aegis, EMP, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, Missile Defense, Quick Fix

We remain vulnerable to the existential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threat that is posed by rogue states and jihadi terrorists. Time’s awasting, but we have relatively inexpensive ways to counter this threat beginning immediately if only the “powers that be” wake up and take the needed actions. Click here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERKJKeMik0k) for Johnny Cash and June Carter and 2 minutes of “Times A Wastin.” Read Full Story

July 18, 2014—While the Storm Clouds Gather . . .

by Scott Cooper on July 18, 2014 in Foreign Policy, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, Obama, Putin, Russia, Ukraine

I recall many times my wife and the love of my life, Bobbye, telling me of her grandfather sitting on his front porch in Oklahoma, watching the storm clouds gather and eventually shepherding his family into the storm cellar before forming tornadoes arrived. This is not unlike how I feel today watching the international storm clouds gather. And it does not seem that we have anyone with a perspective analogous to Bobbye’s grandfather to guide us to safety in the current dangerous situation. Read Full Story

July 9, 2014—Bill Gaubatz R.I.P.

by Scott Cooper on July 8, 2014 in Bill Gaubatz, DC-X, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier

High Frontier is saddened to hear of the death of Bill Gaubatz, a tireless technical advocate, engineering innovator and team builder to advance our national space capabilities, whose expertise was most clearly demonstrated by worldwide television accounts on August 18, 1993 of the launch of the DC-X, or Clipper Graham as it was sometimes dubbed. This first rocket and its improvements subsequently landed and flew again, 12 times before failing, set the stage for a reusable launch capability still to be harnessed by the subsequent powers that be—though the current generation of space innovators—linked to that past—are nearing that day. May God give him eternal peace. Read Full Story

July 4, 2014—Richard Scaife R.I.P.

by Scott Cooper on July 4, 2014 in Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, Richard Scaife

High Frontier is saddened to hear of the death of Richard Scaife on this day as we celebrate our Independence. We are especially indebted to him for his many years of support, from our earliest days when The Heritage Foundation provided a home for Retired Army Lt. General Daniel O. Graham to prepare his original High Frontier report advocating a prominent role for strategic defenses as an alternative to the Cold War’s doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction. That High Frontier effort and Gen. Graham’s grass roots advocacy led to President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) which many believe was instrumental in bringing an end to the Cold War. Read Full Story

July 2, 2014—Aegis Can Help Counter the EMP Threat

by Scott Cooper on June 30, 2014 in EMP, Henry F. Cooper, High Frontier, Independence Day, Iran, Iraq, Missile Defense

As we join in the festivities of our Independence Day celebrations, we need to renew the pledges made by those who proposed the Declaration of Independence some 238 years ago today—again to “mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor” to assure the birthright given to us by the Founders is passed to future Americans. Not least is to prepare for and counter the existential EMP threat posed by the current forces of tyranny. Read Full Story