101 Articles tagged with: Military and Terrorism

• Ayn Rand and the A-Bomb

  On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, hoping to end World War II quickly and avoid the half-million more American casualties likely to be suffered if the conflict dragged on. The war did end quickly. Later… Read Article

• Memorial Day: Honoring Warriors and Stopping Wars

  On Memorial Day, Americans honor those who died in their country’s wars. But the key to stopping deaths in wars—and the wars that regimes wage on their own citizens—is victory in the war of ideas.

  The casualties of war

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• Aspirations, Gaza Death Tunnels, Schools of Hope

  Geopolitical decisions often reflect the aspirations of peoples. The Hamas rulers of Gaza made no secret of their aspirations when they built a secret tunnel from their territory into Israel: to kidnap and kill Jews. But a focus on the physical tu… Read Article

• Brussels in the War for Civilization

  In the aftermath of the March 22 Islamist attacks in Brussels you’ll hear legitimate discussions about security measures, immigration policy, and Obama’s moral cowardice in refusing to identify “Islamists” as the problem. But the underlyin… Read Article

• The Face of Evil is ISIS

  Islamists have struck again in Europe, this time in Brussels, where bombs at the airport and a metro train today took the lives of 30 people and injured hundreds more, with the casualties climbing as I write. The event has been headline and top-of… Read Article

• The Ideas That Promote Terrorism

  Editor’s note: The following remarks were delivered by David Kelley, founder of The Atlas Society, on  May 14, 2005, at the March against Terror, sponsored by the Free Muslims Coalition. They are republished now in the face of the advances a… Read Article

• Obama's NSA Speech: Levison Warned Us

  Edward Snowden will respond to President Obama’s statements on the NSA next week, Julian Assange says , but the Business Rights Center is releasing an 84-minute interview with his email provider, Ladar Levison —who closed Lavabit rather than… Read Article

• Objectivity as a Weapon

  May 2003 -- On March 21, 2003, sophisticated weapons were assaulting the Baathist regime in Baghdad. And so was a simple one: the truth.

  One such strike occurred that day at about 1321 "Zulu" time (that is, Greenwich Mean Time).… Read Article

• El Asalto a la Civilización

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• Weighing War: How to Think about Iraq and North Korea

  April 1, 2003 -- The United States stands at a time of unparalleled military opportunity and danger. There is opportunity because the U.S. military substantially outclasses every other military force in its technology and its reach. The United S… Read Article

• Pre-Emptive Strikes and Iraq

  Question: Rand argued against the initiation of force, and accepted the use of force only in retaliation. However, what of "pre-emptive" strikes, such as their use against Iraq by the United States? Has Iraq already initiated force by virtue of… Read Article

• The Democrats' Model War

   

  The 2006 U.S. elections, which put the Democrats in charge of the House and Senate, were widely described in media as a referendum on the Iraq war. Intense media scrutiny had resulted in critical reports on pre-war intelligence, the d… Read Article

• War: An Objectivist View

  Consider two horrific acts. Number one: a depressed father enters his living room, shoots his wife and children, and then himself. Number two: a depressed widow walks into a hotel, she presses a trigger, and she and everyone else within 30 yards… Read Article

• Make Trade, Not War

  THE TWENTIETH CENTURY SAW more deaths from wars than at any time in human history—some 15 million in World War I and 60 million in World War II to name but the worst examples. But it also highlighted a force that has and can continue to replac… Read Article

• The Persuasion of Nixon

  In the mid-1960s, a handful of individuals from Ayn Rand's inner circle set out to end the draft. Few know the story of their activism. Just how powerful was their influence over Nixon? … Read Article

• Aviation Insecurity

  TNI Spring 2010 --  Editor’s Note: Aviation security was in the headlines again last Christmas, with the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 by the so-called "Underwear Bomber." In reaction to the incident, the Transportation Security… Read Article

• Sidebar: "An act of political deception."

  Were there compelling factors—other than improving aviation security—at work in the passing of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA) of 2001? Yes, says attorney James Slepian, who as a law student in 2003 penned the first legal… Read Article

• Apocalypse Not Now

  There are people whose jobs require some degree of worst-case thinking. I am one of them. Whole teams of threat assessment practitioners in my firm Gavin de Becker and Associates, spend their time developing contingency plans and responses to co… Read Article

• Objectivism and the Military

  Q: I have a cluster of questions centered around understanding how the military would function and be maintained. Your FAQ on "What is the Objectivist View of Law and Government (Politics)?" states "There must be a military force … Read Article

• Military Service and Liberty

  Question: As a Sailor in the United States Navy, I swore an oath to defend liberty, with my life if necessary. Objectivism holds both life and liberty as values of man. Is it possible to rationally justify trading my life for the sake of liberty… Read Article