In the 13 seconds between explosions at the Boston Marathon, dozens of the city's first responders were already on the move. Among them were Thomas Lee and David Carabin, veteran officers in the city's police force. Lee and Carabin had something in common beyond being two of "Boston's finest." Both hold graduate degrees from the Center for Homeland Defense and…

The shocking video of the arrest of an alleged CIA agent in Moscow this week on espionage charges certainly won’t rank as one of most heralded moments in the vaunted agency’s long history of derring-do. But spying — and counterspying — happens. We may never know the whole story of this latest spy-vs.-spy case, but there’s likely a lot more afoot than the nabbing of a…

They pitched their tents in orderly, military fashion. All was quiet on the windswept plain, except for the sharp bark of guard dogs. But the sign tacked in front of the tents sent tremors through capitals around the world. It read, simply: "You are on Chinese Side." That changed last week. Chinese troops withdrew from their advanced positions on the India-China border,…

After 9/11, the words “immigration,” “border security” and “terrorism” were often linked in the same sentence. That was unfortunate. In America, terrorism is a “retail” problem. Terrorists are a small percentage of any group: visitors from overseas, immigrants, All-Americans, criminals—you name it. Border security and immigration are “wholesale” issues. They affect the…

Build a bomb. Stash it in a backpack. Go to a major sporting event. Drop the bag. Walk away. It was a simple plan, and it worked. Some people died. Many more were injured. Panic ensued. The president called it "an act of terror." And a wild manhunt was on. The year was 1996. The terrorist was Eric Robert Rudolph, a carpenter, handyman and extremist who had no training…

Our current vice president has had some not-so-good ideas. In 2006, the then-senator from Delaware proposed portioning Iraq into three separate autonomous regions. Each state, he argued, would have "room to run." Most likely, they would have run in opposite directions making an already messy situation even messier. Fortunately. his advice -- and his disregard for the…

No matter where or how or by whom the Boston Bombers were radicalized, one of the important take-aways from the terrible terrorist attack is that the international militant Islamist movement is alive, kicking — and killing. It’s time we wake up and smell the jihad. The threat is bad and it’s getting worse. In fact, here’s a sordid sampling of foreign and domestic…

Our attention is focused on the terrorist attack in Boston last week, but just two weeks ago we were gripped by North Korean threats of a new Korean War and the possibility of New York’s being hit attacked by long-range missiles. While North Korean promises of thermonuclear war have faded from the news for the moment, the threat hasn’t gone away for good. The…

As the confrontation with North Korea heated up, President Obama reversed course on one missile-defense decision, even as he proposed a defense budget that trimmed another half-billion dollars from the enterprise. This self-contradictory behavior on missile defense reflects the president’s ambivalence about a program that he doesn’t want, but knows he needs. As a…

A bomb exploded in a Bangkok apartment. Both apartment and bomb turned out to belong to a man who had planned to attack the Israeli Embassy. Israeli officials ultimately linked the plot to Hezbollah. Hezbollah translates to "Party of God," but the group is know internationally more for its terrorist attacks than its religious or political activities. The U.S. State…