Earl H. Tilford

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

EARL H. TILFORD, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES It took some time for the nation to appreciate the services offered and sacrifices endured by men...

EARL H. TILFORD, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES Many Americans think of war as a great national struggle, as was the case during WWII, where...

EARL H. TILFORD, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.” —President John F....

EARL H. TILFORD, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES Even though Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced an Israel-Gaza ceasefire, it’s apparent that Gaza still...

EARL H. TILFORD, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES Not long ago, a group of 66 members of Congress sent a letter to Secretary of Defense...

DR. EARL H. TILFORD, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES President Barack Obama’s five-point plan for turning the war back to the Afghans is designed to...

DR. EARL H. TILFORD, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES After the fall of Saigon on April 29, 1975, military and civilian strategists sought “lessons learned.”...

EARL H. TILFORD, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES Late in the summer of 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked the Air Force to plan a...

EARL H. TILFORD, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES Much ink has flowed over the recent apologies from President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta,...

Earl H. Tilford, Center for Vision and Values From Damascus to Tehran, a test for world leadership is underway. Daily, the Syrian military—well-armed, highly trained...

EARL H. TILFORD With breaking news of a U.S. Navy SEAL team successfully rescuing two hostages from pirates in Somalia, military pundits are quick to...

EARL H. TILFORD, CENTER FOR VISION AND VALUES President Barack Obama’s vision for modernizing the U.S. military is little more than an exercise in “back...

Earl H. Tilford, The Center for Vision and Values Once again, tensions between Iran and the international community are on the rise as the United...