Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), National Security Analyst

About Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), National Security Analyst

Jim Waurishuk is a retired USAF Colonel, serving nearly 30-years as a career senior intelligence and political-military affairs officer and special mission intelligence officer with expertise in strategic intelligence, international strategic studies and policy, and asymmetric warfare. He served as a special mission intelligence officer assigned to multiple Joint Special Operations units, and with the CIA’s Asymmetric Warfare Task Force, as well as in international and foreign advisory positions. He served as Deputy Director for Intelligence for U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) during the peak years of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Global War on Terrorism. Waurishuk is a former White House National Security Council staffer and a former Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C. He served as a senior advisor to the Commander U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and served as Vice President of the Special Ops-OPSEC. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Hillsborough County (FL) Republican Executive Committee and Party and serves on the Executive Board of the Republican Party of Florida.

The Debate Over “Imminent Threats” is Yet Another False Narrative

By Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), National Security Analyst|2020-01-18T10:52:47-05:00January 14th, 2020|

The U.S. Can Strike Iran and its Proxies When Necessary - here is why? First, it must be understood the current debate and argument that

The President has the Authority to Take Out Terrorists Without Notifying Congress

By Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), National Security Analyst|2020-01-08T18:09:16-05:00January 5th, 2020|

President Trump reiterated; ‘We will find you, we will eliminate you’ in a warning to terrorists after Soleimani’s killing. Planned attacks against American diplomatic, military

Trump’s Maximum Pressure Campaign – Orders Top Iranian ‘Terror General’ Killed in Iraq

By Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), National Security Analyst|2020-01-05T19:40:50-05:00January 3rd, 2020|

Late Thursday EST, early Friday morning Iraqi time, Iran's elite Quds force commander, Major General Qassim Soleimani, was killed in an airstrike in Iraq that

While the Secretive FISA Court Rebuked the FBI – The Court has its own Problems

By Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), National Security Analyst|2019-12-21T08:51:17-05:00December 19th, 2019|

The secret federal court that approves orders for conducting surveillance on suspected foreign terrorists or spies issued a strong and highly unusual public rebuke to

AG Barr: “The Inspector General’s Report reflects a clear abuse of the FISA process.”

By Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), National Security Analyst|2019-12-12T16:53:00-05:00December 9th, 2019|

Pundits and political hacks are out in full force with the release of the Inspector General's Report⏤problem is most of them have it all wrong.

FISA Report Release Will Acquit & Exonerate General Michael Flynn

By Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), National Security Analyst|2019-12-10T06:35:37-05:00December 2nd, 2019|

If you have been following the long and ongoing events related to the General Michael Flynn case, you’ll know that in October, his lawyer Sidney

President Trump Pulls Off the Most Secret and Surprising Thanksgiving Visit Yet

By Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), National Security Analyst|2019-12-03T16:19:50-05:00November 29th, 2019|

President Trump’s more than three-hour Thanksgiving ‘fly-in’ to Afghanistan was a closely guarded secret, carried out with cloak-and-dagger precision to ensure the U.S. President’s security

Trump’s Special Terminal Operation takes-out ISIS’ al-Baghdadi

By Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), National Security Analyst|2019-10-29T10:43:14-04:00October 27th, 2019|

"Something very big has just happened!" That was the tweet heard around the world as President Trump tweeted out at 9:23 pm eastern time on

Syria, When the Dust Settled – the Truth Once Again Reveals the Hand of Obama

By Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), National Security Analyst|2019-10-28T09:15:08-04:00October 26th, 2019|

The Turkish move came with an ostensible green light from President Trump, who cleared the way for the Turkish action by precipitously ordering the withdrawal

The Syria – Turkey Reality vs. Political Hysteria and Fake News Lies

By Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), National Security Analyst|2019-10-23T09:05:05-04:00October 20th, 2019|

Lost amid the understandable moral and strategic outrage over President Trump’s unorthodox and non-status quo decision on Syria is one politically inconvenient fact: Trump’s assessment

Trump Puts America First as the Elitists and Failed Ruling Class Get It Wrong Again

By Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), National Security Analyst|2019-10-16T10:00:13-04:00October 13th, 2019|

While Kurdish nationalism on the surface seems to be the common theme among various Kurdish groups, at least according to the Washington ruling class and

U.S. Military, the Kurds, and Syria – the Withdrawal, here’s the Reality –

By Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.), National Security Analyst|2019-10-10T08:36:07-04:00October 7th, 2019|

THE U.S. IS NOT ABANDONING THE KURDS. The U.S. will continue to provide the best military assistance, aid, and training to the Kurds, as we