William Schirano's blog

Last week the Obama administration released its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and the President signed the new START (strategic arms reduction treaty) with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. This week, leaders from more than 40 nations have convened in Washington, D.C. for the Nuclear Security Summit to discuss global nuclear risk and a strategy for controlling insecure nuclear materials. YPNation spoke with William Schirano, an international security consultant based in Washington, D.C., about these recent events.Read more

Our national security professionals continue to have their work cut out for them. Since the failed attempt to bring down a Northwest airliner on Christmas day, we’ve been told by the heads of our intelligence agencies that al Qaeda will execute another attack against the U.S. homeland within a three to six month timeframe. What kind of attack they are planning remains unknown at this point. But given al Qaeda's obsessive focus on certain types of targets, it’s probably not a bad idea to keep a close eye on our airline industry.
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Listening to talk radio this morning, I’m nearly convinced that our campaign in Afghanistan began falling apart just as soon as Barack Obama completed the oath to become President of the United States.
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A great debate has finally begun over our future presence in Afghanistan. As I’ve alluded to previously, Afghanistan, for the last seven years, has been the neglected…dare I say, forgotten war next to Iraq.
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Based on the news coming out of Tehran, it appears President Ahmadinejad's brazen election fix is not having the desired effect.
 
This morning, the Associated Press is reporting that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei wants to take another look at the results. Hoping for a reversal of results or even a run-off is probably a bit optimistic, given his previous assertion that all was well.
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