The Strategic Effect of Operation Kayla
BY EARL H. TILFORD
Raids, like Operation Kayla resulting in the death of Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi and other ISIS terrorist leaders, are usually small affairs with...
A Time of Civility Needed Again
BY EARL H. TILFORD
Tonight , President Donald Trump will visit Minneapolis. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey stated, “While there is no legal mechanism to prevent...
Missing in Action: How America Forgets MIA Day
BY EARL H. TILFORD
Presidential proclamation, along with decrees by state governors, have served to establish September 20 as a national day of recognition for...
Hypocrisy in the Northam Affair
BY EARL H. TILFORD
Late breaking news on Friday, February 1 revolved around a supposed 1984 medical school party photo of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam...
Angela Davis and the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award
BY EARL H. TILFORD
On Friday, January 4, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute revoked its invitation to honor city native Angela Y. Davis at a...
Losing sight of the Great War in American History
BY EARL H. TILFORD
The anniversary of the end of the Great War—despite President Donald Trump visiting pan-European ceremonies in France—passed almost unnoticed in the...
Alabama, August 1963: Sunset of Innocence
BY EARL H. TILFORD
On Monday morning August 26, 1963, my best friend Tony Beason and I started walking 85 miles from Decatur, Alabama southward...
Summit II: A Great Idea
Exclusive to Self-Educated American
BY EARL H. TILFORD
A week after the Monday, July 16 Helsinki meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the American left...
Trumpets for a U.S. Space Force
BY EARL H. TILFORD
“Where there is chaos, there also is opportunity.”
Sun Tzu (or was it Chuck Schumer?)
President Donald J. Trump has trumpeted the notion...
Babylon’s City Limits
BY EARL H. TILFORD
The point of the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel is not to explain the diversity as effect. The cause...
Homeland: Art imitating Life
BY EARL H. TILFORD
“All theory is gray. But forever green is the tree of life.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1842)
I have enjoyed every season...
The Grand Strategy of the Trump Administration
BY EARL H. TILFORD
‘The art of war is divided between force and stratagem. What cannot be done by force must be done by stratagem.” — Frederick...
Coaches Paul Bryant and Joe Paterno in Retrospect
BY EARL H. TILFORD
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
—William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”
Alabama football Coach...
Revive Us Again: Billy Graham and that Old Time Religion
BY EARL H. TILFORD
Hallelujah, Thine the glory. Hallelujah, amen! —William P. Mackay, 1863
I am right behind Billy Graham on life’s final lap. My first...
Limiting the Coming War
BY EARL H. TILFORD
“War is the realm of the unexpected.” — B. H. Liddell Hart, 1950
Early 19th century Prussian general and philosopher Carl von Clausewitz identified...
The Big Button
BY EARL H. TILFORD
“Heck, I reckon you wouldn’t even be human beings if you didn’t have some pretty strong personal feelings about nuclear combat.”
—King...
North Korea: Apocalypse When?
BY EARL H. TILFORD, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES
Are Western intelligence services—primarily America’s—stupid or is North Korea a convenient toreador’s cape for problems so...
A Vision for Middle East Peace and Security
BY EARL H. TILFORD
President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia and then to Israel as part of his first foreign trip is as historically...
The Key to the Russian Riddle
BY EARL H. TILFORD
“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The key is Russian national interest.”
Winston Churchill’s quote came a...
To America’s Lions: Thank You for Your Service
EARL H. TILFORD, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES
It took some time for the nation to appreciate the services offered and sacrifices endured by men...