Last week, Americans glued to their TVs watched events unfold after the terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line. We still don’t know all of the parts of this Jihadi terrorist event, but we need to generalize its lessons to deal with a Global Jihad that poses a truly existential threat to America as we know it. Read Full Story
To counter the threats of the “New World Disorder,” we need to build the very best ballistic missile defenses that our technology permits, as quickly as possible . . . and should not bargain away our right to do so, especially for fleeting diplomatic gains. Read Full Story
Seasoned crews of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system can help defend against North Korean ballistic missile launches over the South Pole, if provided needed cuing and tracking information. Read Full Story
North Korea and Iran seem joined at the hip, and our Intelligence Community seems confused about North Korea’s proximity to nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. Whatever it is, Iran won’t be far behind. Notwithstanding our leaders’ dubious claims about being prepared for all contingencies, we and our allies, especially Israel, face daunting challenges. Stay tuned . . . Read Full Story
This week, Senior U.S. Officials have stated that our recent missile defense deployments assure that we can shoot down North Koreas ballistic missiles in all contingencies, if they are launched at the U.S. homeland or our troops in the Pacific, e.g., at Guam. But . . . What about one North Korea may actually have been practicing? Read Full Story
If North Korea wanted to avoid our defenses and create an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to bring us down to its size how could they do it? Let’s see . . . how about planning to set off a nuclear weapon 300 miles up over Omaha? How about using a satellite and attacking from over the South Pole? Hmmmmmm . . . Read Full Story
Last Friday, North Korea threatened to attack the U.S. and its military bases in South Korea and the Pacific—after two U.S. nuclear-capable stealth bombers dropped dummy munitions in joint military drills with South Korea—in response to earlier North Korean testing and threats of a preemptive attack on the U.S. Stay tuned to this “tit for tat” game. Unwise? You think? Read Full Story
Additional ground based interceptors in Alaska responds to North Korea’s threat to preemptively attack the U.S. but plans for a ground based site in Poland have changed for a second time—apparently to appease Russia while downgrading the threat from Iran and ignoring concerns of our allies. And EMP issues continue to fester . . . Read Full Story
No one knows when trouble will strike in a devastating way. And there is nothing magic about March 15 . . . just the date of Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 B.C., after which the “Ides of March” assumed a special identity to reflect a specific day that sent a ripple of History-changing repercussions throughout Roman society and beyond. Last week a couple of articles from the web warn of events that could bring down America and Western Civilization much faster than the fall of Rome.
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High Frontier participated in the January 12-13 Tea Party Coalition Convention at the Springfield Beach Resort in Myrtle Beach, SC. In particular, Amb. Cooper discussed the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threat and what can be done to counter it, as has been described in our previous three email reports. Many of the several hundred attendees indicated… Read Full Story
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