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Threats

R Lawson — Wed, 24 May 2023 21:38:12 +0000

As I watch the news, there is a constant parade of threats to our country- Some real, some imagined, or hyped, but others represent truly existential dangers to the homeland. And some are threats that I have dramatized in my novels over the past ten years. Maybe coincidence, maybe prescience. Published in the mystery, thriller, […]

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ZACHOR- Coincidence or prescience in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?

R Lawson — Fri, 14 May 2021 17:38:35 +0000

The recent Hamas’ barrage of rockets attacking Israel from Gaza has ignited a conflict reminiscent of the July/August war that occurred in 2014. That’s actually how that seven-week war started. The rocket attacks ignited a massive Israel Defense Forces (IDF) response resulting in collateral and more deaths. Seven years have passed with sporadic hostile incidents, […]

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The Vietnam War Revisited- Part XIV – It Starts Hitting the Fan

R Lawson — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 20:54:55 +0000

The decisions made by the LBJ administration in 1964 discussed in my last blog cast the die. Much like Julius Caesar in 49 BC, LBJ crossed his Rubicon metaphorically. Once crossing the Mekong River and Delta, there was no going back. Operation Rolling Thunder was an irrevocable act that failed for the reasons chronicled in […]

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Politics and the Vietnam War – The Chennault Affair

R Lawson — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 09:00:33 +0000

– Vietnam War Politics -The Chennault Affair Over three decades ago, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman made cogent observations on the role of political influence in decisions to go to war, strategy to conduct the war, and how to end the war. In her book The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam (1984), […]

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Vietnam Recollections

R Lawson — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 19:12:14 +0000

A good friend who flew close combat missions in A-4’s out of Chu Lai in 1967 and 1968 recently sent me a copy of a fellow Marine’s recollections of Vietnam which I wanted to pass along to you with my recall of that experience. His descriptions offer a capsule summary of an aspect of the […]

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North Korea Ups the Threat- What are our options?

R Lawson — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 19:41:37 +0000

The “Rocket Man,” Kim Jong-un, continues to saber rattle, firing another missile over Japan and making threats. What is the best way to deal with a personality like that? It’s a dicey situation considering the proximity of South Korea and Japan and our troops stationed there. The UN voted to increase sanctions, once again, despite […]

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What are chances North Korea could pull off a nuclear “Pearl Harbor”?

R Lawson — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 20:36:07 +0000

The answer to that question is foremost these days in the minds of our President, his flag officers and security advisors at all levels. Basically, the threat exists, but can Kim Jong-un’s rocket scientists launch an ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) capable of reaching America’s soil? How far are they along in accomplishing that maniacal goal? […]

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Recall and the Vietnam Era

R Lawson — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:27:18 +0000

VIETNAM – What does that name mean to you? If you were born after 1975, like half of our population, it probably has little or no meaning. For the other half who witnessed the war in Southeast Asia, it may still conjure up mixed emotions or it has simply faded from memory. But for those involved […]

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Contemporary Threats

R Lawson — Thu, 18 May 2017 15:42:14 +0000

The common theme of my five published novels is terrorism and counter-terrorism, a timely and disturbing subject in today’s world. The threats I cover take many forms- bioterrorism in Cabo Caper, cyberwarfare in Killing Time, targeted assassinations in Retribution, radical Islamic Jihadists in Existential Threats, and the threat of a North Korean nuclear EMP (Electromagnetic […]

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New Release Coming: Recall

R Lawson — Fri, 05 May 2017 21:24:29 +0000

Recall by R. Lawson My sixth novel, Recall, is on pace for publication this summer. Recall is a fictional historical narrative, a different genre than my five previous novels. Although it features the same protagonist, Biff Roberts, (who you may know from my espionage series of intelligent thrillers,) the story is based on based on […]

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