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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Blackburn on Afghanistan Withdrawal: ‘Very Concerned About How China Is Going to Move Forward’

Monday, July 12, 2021

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Source: https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/07/12/blackburn-on-afghanistan-withdrawal-very-concerned-about-how-china-is-going-to-move-forward/

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Monday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) reacted to President Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.

Blackburn voiced her concern with how China moves forward in Afghanistan after Biden left Afghanistan out with what she described as “let’s get out of there, and we will figure out the rest of it later.” She warned Russia, China, Iran and North Korea would become a “new axis of evil.”

“[W]e are very concerned about how China is going to move forward in Afghanistan, and one of the things we do know is this: President Trump had a plan, for how he would come out of Afghanistan,” Blackburn outlined. “And what you have with President Biden is let’s get out of there, and we will figure out the rest of it later. There is a big difference in the approach to that.”

“Now also, I think it is significant — we have to remember what China would like with Afghanistan is that land route into Iran. And this puts them straight into Tehran, and f you look at Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, that is your new axis of evil,” she added.

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