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Austin Bay is an author and syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. Bay describes himself as a "Soldier, developmental aid advocate, war game designer, lecturer, and radio commentator." Bay is Pajamas Media's "military affairs expert". He blogs at his Austin Bay Blog and has participated since February 2007 in the U.S. Department of Defense's Bloggers' Roundtable.

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Austin Bay: Al-Qauda's Prospects

Maj. Nidal Hasan's treachery and terror jolted Americans. As Hasan's attack demonstrates, al-Qaida and al-Qaida-influenced fanatics can strike and kill on American soil. While Hasan serves warning the threat still exists, does Hasan's act forward ...

From AUSTIN BAY, Town Hall,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Bernard Lewis

Austin Bay: Hasan's Treason

Traitor is a tough word. It doesn't smudge and squish. "Traitor" draws a hard line, one that sharply divides essential life-determining values and marks a defining personal choice between the profound and the profane. There is no question that the ...

From AUSTIN BAY, Town Hall,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: MoveOn.org,  Time Magazine,  David Petraeus,  New York Times Company,  Joe McCarthy

Hasan's Treason

One word aptly describes Ft. Hood mass murderer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan: traitor. Traitor is a tough word. It doesn't smudge and squish. "Traitor" draws a hard line, one that sharply divides essential life-determining values and marks a defining ...

From AUSTIN BAY, Human Events Online,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: MoveOn.org,  Nidal Malik Hasan,  Time Magazine,  David Petraeus,  New York Times Company

Austin Bay: Cracking the Berlin Wall

On Nov. 9, 1989, large crowds of German citizens from both East and West Berlin approached the Berlin Wall. At several border crossing points, East Berliners began shouting at the armed communist guards, demanding they open the gates and shove aside ...

From AUSTIN BAY, Town Hall,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: NATO

Austin Bay: Building an Army Under Fire

Maintaining a competent military organization is a challenge for wealthy nations, even in times of relative peace. Bureaucrats and politicians hijack budgets as politically connected officers wrangle promotions at the expense of creative, ...

From AUSTIN BAY, Town Hall,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

Austin Bay: What Kind of Action in the World Justifies a Nobel Peace Prize?

Action in the world ought to trump worlds evoked by words, especially when awarding a global prize allegedly recognizing sustained, courageous effort on behalf of peace in our world's deeply conflicted corners. We live in an age when the farce of ...

From AUSTIN BAY, Town Hall,  14 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  William Faulkner,  Winston Churchill,  Adolf Hitler

Austin Bay: Afghanistan's Changing Battleground

Eliminate commercial jet transports connecting continents, and the tangled tribal, economic, anarchic and ideological problems vexing Afghanistan become more localized torments afflicting Afghanis and their neighbors. What? The jets aren't going away? ...

From AUSTIN BAY, Town Hall,  7 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  American Airlines,  Al-Qaeda,  Taliban

Austin Bay: Sudan's Simmering North-South War

Sudan's genocidal Darfur war still attracts international attention, and though large battles pitting national government troops against Darfur rebels are less frequent there, violent anarchy still afflicts that sad region. A much larger and more ...

From AUSTIN BAY, Town Hall,  30 Sep 2009

Austin Bay: Obama Lets Sphere of Influence Trump Sphere of Security

When it came to acting on behalf of peace in the 21st century, the Obama administration weighed "sphere of influence" against "sphere of security" and came down solidly on the side of the Russian czars. I am referring to the administration's refusal ...

From AUSTIN BAY, Town Hall,  23 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Lech Kaczynski,  Vladimir Putin,  White House,  Adolf Hitler

Austin Bay: SOF Targets and Soft Targets

When American special operations forces (SOF) operating in Somalia killed a terrorist mastermind this past week, media reports focused on the drama and the bombast. The drama was palpable. U.S. SOF used helicopters to attack a vehicle carrying Saleh ...

From AUSTIN BAY, Town Hall,  16 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Al-Qaeda

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