Alan W. Dowd
Rogues Gallery
Originally published in The American Legion Magazine In 2005, long before there was an Arab Spring, Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami announced “the autumn of autocrats” and predicted that “the entrenched systems of control in the ...
Boiler Up…Way Up: A Glance at Purdue’s Contribution to America’s Space Program
Purdue proudly calls itself the “cradle of astronauts,” and rightly so. “Purdue alumni have flown on about 37 percent of all human U.S. space flights”
Another Peace Prize Surprise
Originally published in FrontPage So, the people that gave a peace prize to President Barack Obama (self-styled slayer of Osama bin Laden, conqueror of al Qaeda, drone-warrior of Pakistan and liberator of Libya) “for his extraordinary ...
Desert Shield
Originally published in The Landing Zone Even as the Obama administration has scaled back—and in some cases cut—permanent ground-based missile defenses in the United States and Europe, it has moved to bolster missile defenses in the ...
On the Brink: Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis
Originally published in The American Legion Magazine Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was vacationing on the Crimea, just across from Turkey, when he came up with the idea to plant nuclear-tipped missiles in Cuba. “It was high time ...
Lessons of October
Originally published in The Landing Zone The 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis is upon us. We know the story well: The Soviets tried to plant nuclear missiles in Cuba to protect their client and to tip the Cold War balance of terror. ...
Nightmares in Syria
The crumbling regime of Syrian strongman Bashar Assad fields one of the largest chemical-weapons programs on earth, including mustard gas, sarin and VX nerve agent. Syria has mated these weapons with artillery shells and missilery. Open-source ...
The Unthinkable in Syria
Orginally published in FrontPage So far, only the Syrian people have borne the costs of the Obama administration’s do-nothing approach to Syria, but the United States and its allies in Israel, Turkey and Jordan may soon pay dearly for the ...
Keeping Iran on the Strait and Narrow
Iran is making lots of noise about closing the Strait of Hormuz, the vital international waterway that carries 17 million barrels of oil every day—35 percent of the crude oil transported by sea. “The control of the Persian Gulf region is in ...
Shadow War
Asked in 2004 about U.S. concerns over Iranian meddling in Iraq, a high-level Iranian official responded with a vague threat: “They know that if Iran wanted to, it could make their problems even worse.”
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