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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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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.

Pompeo: Biden ‘Weakness’ Led to Putin Invasion of Ukraine; Says Sitting at the Table with Iran, Russia ‘Incomprehensible’

Monday, April 11, 2022

Categories: ASCF News National Preparedness

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Source: https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/04/10/pompeo-biden-weakness-led-to-putin-invasion-of-ukraine-says-sitting-at-the-table-with-iran-russia-incomprehensible/

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In a Sunday interview on New York AM WABC 770 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ripped President Joe Biden’s “weakness” and “lack of resolve.”

According to Pompeo, Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal was not the only weakness he exhibited that led to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

“I think, John, that there is no doubt that [Putin’s] perception of American resolve changed fundamentally when President Biden came into office,” Pompeo told host John Catsimitidis. “The risk seemed low. The cost that he would have to pay seemed reasonable. And he began to prepare the assault that we’ve seen take place in the main four regions of Ukraine. I think there’s no doubt about that. It wasn’t just Afghanistan. Remember the President said a minor incursion is OK? When the Russians … shut down the Colonial Pipeline for several days. President Biden simply said, ‘Don’t do that again.'”

He continued, “The first American leader to meet with Vladimir Putin wasn’t the secretary of defense, or the secretary of state, or the president. It was [John] Kerry. They put climate change at the top of the list. And that showed weakness and a lack of resolve.’

Pompeo went on to slam Biden for sitting at the table with Iran and Russia to negotiate the Iran nuclear deal.

“[T]he craziness of the fact that the Russians are killing Ukrainians and … the United States is sitting at the table in Vienna talking to the Iranians is hard to imagine and understand,” he emphasized. “It’s incomprehensible to me.”

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