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Lance Eldridge

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Retiring after nearly 22 years of active duty in the Army, Lance Eldridge worked as the director of a law enforcement training academy and served as a rural patrol deputy and patrol officer in Colorado. While in the military, he held leadership positions in a variety of organizations and has written extensively about US military strategy, operations, and history. He is a graduate of the US Army’s Command and General Staff College and the Norwegian Staff College. He holds a Masters Degree in History and a Masters Degree in Strategic Intelligence. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in national security strategy, European regional security, US history, and terrorism. He now works in northern Virginia.

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The debate over whether or note officers should be college educated has been swirling around for decades and will not go away anytime soon
Concluding that local authorities should avoid pursuing terrorism charges just because federal officials might not agree may underestimate the capabilities, effectiveness, and professionalism of state and municipal counterterrorism units
Those surviving a terrorist’s attack are the intended target — the dead and the maimed are the terrorist’s weapons of choice
As we mourn those lost and eulogize the heroes, we must not forget that a terrorist culture exists, regardless of race, religion, or national identity
Some estimates show that Congress codifies more than 50 new criminal offenses a year — who do you figure is going to most often hear about that from our society’s malcontents and miscreants?
Breivik, who has reportedly admitted responsibility for both atrocities, is a psychotic “Lone Wolf” whose motivation came from his own twisted world view and lack of a moral compass
Moral ambiguity can prove to be the first stop on the path to a pattern of unethical and illegal behavior by otherwise well-meaning officers
The connection between criminal activity — whether one might consider it ‘organized’ or not — and terrorist organizations has history that continues to this very day
Human and moral vices such as greed, anger, power, and cruelty — which motivate criminal activity — can easily become lost in the language of the academic
As we approach the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, law enforcement’s primary defensive tool to combat terrorism remains in patrol and traditional policing methods