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Gailforce: Aspen Security Forum Part II
August 12, 2016 9 min. read

During the Forum, Secretary Johnson focused on the evolving nature of the terrorism threat, what we need to do in response, and the need for resiliency.

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GailForce: Threat of Cyber War is Not Hype Part II
June 1, 2012 9 min. read

In my last blog, I ended with a quote from a 2011 Foreign Affairs magazine article written by former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III.  In the article he stated the Department of Defense has a five pillar strategy for operating in cyberspace: “…treating cyberspace as an operational domain, like land, air, […]

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Second attempt to ambush US anti-drug agents in Mexico: another "mistake"?
February 26, 2011 2 min. read

Early this morning (2-25-11), Mexican gunmen armed with short rifles and driving trucks equipped with strobe lights, and in one case, missing license plates, once more attempted to box in a US government-owned vehicle (OGV) driven by US anti-drug agents a short distance from the US border on the Mexican side.

One of the Mexican gunmen in the lead vehicle was also, according to reports, wearing a badge around his neck. . .

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Mexican Ambush of Unarmed ICE Agents Planned and Premeditated: No 'Wrong Place at Wrong Time'
February 18, 2011 4 min. read

The sequence of events that occurred on February 15th and ended in the murder of ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata and in the shooting of Special Agent Victor Avila are as follows–evidence that the attack on two US federal agents was premeditated and planned, not a case of ‘being in the wrong place at the wrong time,’ or an incident triggered by the desire of the assailants to hijack a valuable vehicle.

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