Right Side NewsCol. Thomas Snodgrass, USAF (retired) served over a year in Peshawar, Pakistan, working with Pakistani military intelligence. During his year in Vietnam he daily scheduled 130 U.S. Army and Air Force intelligence collection aircraft. In his final overseas tour he was the U.S. Air Attaché behind the Iron Curtain in Warsaw, Poland. In total, Col. Snodgrass was variously an Intelligence Officer or an International Politico-Military Affairs Officer (military diplomat) serving duty tours in seven foreign countries, as well as teaching military history and strategy at the Air War College, US Air Force Academy, and USAF Special Operations School during a thirty-year military career. Additionally, he was awarded an Air Force scholarship to get a history master’s degree in revolutionary insurgent warfare at the University of Texas, as well as being granted a year’s educational sabbatical to teach and to write about international relations as an Air Force Research Associate in the graduate school at the Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami, Florida. Following the Air Force, Col. Snodgrass was an adjunct professor of military history for ten years at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Arizona.
The Islamic Sharia Makes Impossible Side-by-Side Palestinian and Israeli States Col. Tom Snodgrass (Ret.), Right Side News The U.S. And Israeli Delusion On April 6, 2009, President Barack Obama in remarks to the Turkish Parliament stated: “In the Middle East, we share the goal of a lasting peace between Israel and its neighbors. Let me […]
In Spite Of The Media’s Apathy, There Are Vital National Security Issues At Stake By Col. Tom Snodgrass (Ret.), Right Side News A List Of The National Security Issues Involved In Obama’s Benghazigate Cover-up 1. The failure of President Obama’s Arab Spring-Foreign Policy. 2. The fallacious foundation of Obama’s national security policy toward Islam, concealing […]
The Republicans Either Don’t “Get It,” Or They Are Paralyzed By Political Correctness By Col. Tom Snodgrass (Ret.), Right Side News The Wrong Issues Are Being Questioned There were so many blunders related to ‘Obama’s fiasco’ in Benghazi that the Obama regime has had a wide range of issues to obfuscate their foreign affairs-national security […]
Benghazi And Petraeus: Too Many Obvious Questions And Too Many Non-Answers By Col. Tom Snodgrass (Ret.), Right Side News The Questions 1. Why was security for the U.S. mission in Benghazi so totally inadequate after the U.S. ambassador repeatedly requested that it be increased and improved following recurrent jihadist attacks against Western diplomatic and Red […]
It’s a struggle for the religious sectarian dominance of Islam: Consequently, it’s a ‘no win’ situation for the U.S. By Col. Tom Snodgrass (Ret.), Right Side News Historical Background Civilization in Syria is one of the most ancient on earth, dating to approximately 10,000 B.C. in Neolithic times. Furthermore, Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited […]
Col Tom Snodgrass, Right Side News The U.S. Foreign Policy Dysfunction Problem Began With The End Of the Cold War Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War in 1991, U.S. foreign policy has alternated between somewhat different approaches caused by the slightly differing assumptions about Islam held by the […]
by Col Tom Snodgrass, Right Side NewsThe Pentagon Blamed “Sketchy” Intelligence for the Failure in BenghaziThe alibiing and cover-up of the Benghazi blunder by the Obama administration swung into high gear on October 25th when, in response to a letter demanding explanation of the Benghazi failure from House Speaker John Boehner, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta […]
By Col. Tom Snodgrass (Ret.), Right Side News Encyclopedic Information about Barack Obama As almost everyone knows by now, during the 2008 presidential campaign there was little to no vetting of the Democrat Party’s candidate, Barack Obama. Both print and broadcast media went to extraordinary lengths not to engage in any investigative journalism beyond accepting […]
By Col. Tom Snodgrass (Ret.), Right Side News In the World War II Pacific Theater, our Japanese enemy’s disregard for any human or Judeo-Christian standard of morality made the application of normally acceptable jus in bello criteria absolutely impossible and therefore inapplicable. Are we in a similar situation fighting against Islamic jihad?
By Col. Tom Snodgrass (Ret.), Right Side News Warsaw 1988? When I arrived in Warsaw as the U.S Air Attaché in June 1988, the Communist government had zero credibility with 98% of Polish people. Just two percent of the Polish people belonged to the Communist Party and were the “official believers,” but when the chips […]
Political correctness is the constraint that none dare mention By Col. Thomas E. Snodgrass (USAF, Ret.) KNOW YOUR ENEMY There appeared in a recent Armed Forces Journal an article, “A New Principle of War,” by Frank Hoffman that was interesting, provocative, and important reading. As Mr. Hoffman indicates, the principles of war provide a framework […]
by Tom Snodgrass, Right Side News Moderate Islam In the ten plus years since Islamic jihadists, acting in the name of their god Allah, murdered almost 3,000 Americans on 9/11/01, daily life in the United States has been tremendously altered by such security measures as waiting in long lines to pass through magnetometers at professional […]