R. Lawson Author https://rlawsonauthor.com/ Intelligent Thrillers Mon, 05 Aug 2024 18:00:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 55015724 ISRAEL’S RETRIBUTION https://rlawsonauthor.com/israels-retribution/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/israels-retribution/#respond Mon, 05 Aug 2024 18:00:03 +0000 https://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1387 Never underestimate Israel. Hamas’s October 7th atrocities followed by Iran’s drone and Hezbollah’s missile attacks defined existential threats. Israel never fails to respond in defense of their country. Lex Talionis, the law of retribution, is in their DNA. In recent days, they have eliminated three top HVTs, high-value targets. Israel’s security services and military, the […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/israels-retribution/feed/ 0 1387 Is There Light at the End of the Hamas Tunnel? https://rlawsonauthor.com/is-there-light-at-the-end-of-the-hamas-tunnel/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/is-there-light-at-the-end-of-the-hamas-tunnel/#respond Thu, 23 May 2024 20:01:00 +0000 https://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1377 The light at the end of the tunnel for Hamas is most likely not there. Not when Israel, consumed with rage, retaliated following the Oct 7th barbaric massacre reminiscent of the Holocaust’s unspeakable atrocities. I doubt Israel will take many prisoners. The checkered, black and white Kaffiyeh, head scarf, is the iconic symbol of Palestine. […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/is-there-light-at-the-end-of-the-hamas-tunnel/feed/ 0 1377 Who are Hamas? https://rlawsonauthor.com/who-are-hamas/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/who-are-hamas/#respond Thu, 16 May 2024 23:41:14 +0000 https://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1375 It’s common knowledge Hamas is a terrorist group- a brutal, barbaric one- who committed atrocities in Israel on Oct 7th, 2023 in a surprise attack akin to Pearl Harbor. But beyond that, what else do we know about them? What makes them tick? With attribution to articles by Victor David Hanson (Stanford Hoover Institute), Ed […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/who-are-hamas/feed/ 0 1375 Trying to Understand the Middle East Muddle https://rlawsonauthor.com/trying-to-understand-the-middle-east-muddle/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/trying-to-understand-the-middle-east-muddle/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2024 01:08:42 +0000 https://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1359 This blog attempts to grasp the context of the current Israeli/Hamas conflict by offering a synopsis of the background history of a poorly understood region of the world. The overview renders some basic knowledge of the very complex mixture of vastly different cultures living there in seemingly never-ending tension. Hopefully, some familiarity may promote a […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/trying-to-understand-the-middle-east-muddle/feed/ 1 1359 Threats https://rlawsonauthor.com/threats/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/threats/#respond Wed, 24 May 2023 21:38:12 +0000 https://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1349 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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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/threats/feed/ 0 1349 THE TALIBAN – Who are they? https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-taliban-who-are-they/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-taliban-who-are-they/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2021 17:52:00 +0000 https://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1309 Know thy enemy, know thy self… Sun Tzu- The Art of War. There’s a good argument that we did not fully understand the enemy or ourselves. Or, take Tzu’s advice seriously. History repeated itself in late August, 2021 with the fall of Kabul. Many Americans have a notion that Afghanistan is a nation somewhere in […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/the-taliban-who-are-they/feed/ 1 1309 America’s Longest War Over – Really? https://rlawsonauthor.com/americas-longest-war-over-really/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/americas-longest-war-over-really/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2021 21:15:17 +0000 https://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1299 This post was originally written in early September 2021, but I am now just getting a chance to post it. Newspapers’ headlines triumph fully paraded that announcement in large, bold letters last week at the top of the front page. However, our enemy, radical Islamic terrorism, has a vote in that boastful declaration. The war […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/americas-longest-war-over-really/feed/ 2 1299 Kabul 2021 -A Saigon 1975 Redux? https://rlawsonauthor.com/kabul-2021-a-saigon-1975-redux/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/kabul-2021-a-saigon-1975-redux/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2021 21:07:45 +0000 https://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1291 Any surviving Vietnam veteran must be experiencing flashbacks of the hurried rooftop evacuations in Saigon as the North Vietnamese stormed that capitol city in 1975. Having served as USAF flight surgeon flying air evac’s in South Vietnam in the mid ‘60’s, I quickly saw the parallel, the significance of failed policy and strategic planning for […]

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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/kabul-2021-a-saigon-1975-redux/feed/ 4 1291 ZACHOR- Coincidence or prescience in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? https://rlawsonauthor.com/zachor-coincidence-or-prescience-in-the-palestinian-israeli-conflict/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/zachor-coincidence-or-prescience-in-the-palestinian-israeli-conflict/#comments Fri, 14 May 2021 17:38:35 +0000 https://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1269 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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]]> https://rlawsonauthor.com/zachor-coincidence-or-prescience-in-the-palestinian-israeli-conflict/feed/ 1 1269 The Vietnam War Revisited – Part XXVIII – The Ten Thousand Day War https://rlawsonauthor.com/revisiting-the-ten-thousand-day-war/ https://rlawsonauthor.com/revisiting-the-ten-thousand-day-war/#respond Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:51:58 +0000 https://rlawsonauthor.com/?p=1259 The Vietnam War polarized American politics for many reasons, some warranted, others not. The rancor has persisted for three generations among the diehards, revisionist historians, and the actual veteran survivors. The conflict was poorly understood and reported back then and now. There was plenty of blame to go around including the lack of accurate accounts by the media. […]

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