In reality, what really happens is you write a few posts for the first month or two, maybe add in a couple shares, that dwindles to a post a month, and then after a year blogging seems like just another item on your ever-growing to-do list that is put off indefinitely. Months go by and the best you can wrangle up is a retweet of an interesting news story you saw on Yahoo.com.

By Brett Daniel Shehadey
Special Correspondent for In Homeland Security

America cannot militarily reinforce three major theaters in support of European and Asian allies and fight off the spread of three civil wars across the Middle East at the same time. Washington needs to make some hard decisions and prioritize which of these it can afford to sacrifice or walk away from.

By Brett Daniel Shehadey
Special Correspondent for In Homeland Security

Today, aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and the guided missile carrier USS Normandy inched closer to Yemeni shores, while Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called for an immediate ceasefire in Yemen.