It leaves us, as a nation, witless about the true nature of the enemy and his motivations and therefore incapable of countering them effectively.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Losing the Jihadists' War on America

At present, the financial markets seem untroubled by the election of a man who once described them as his true enemy.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

It is true that during WWII the BBC had broadcast coded messages to British secret agents behind enemy lines, and that some journalists had worked with MI6 in producing propaganda.

BBC: The 'secret agents' of the UK press

Given its assertion that states base their foreign policies on unsentimental assessments of their national interests, true realists would argue that there is no rational bar to enemy states sharing the same allies if doing so advances their national interests.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel and the 'realists'

That is particularly true insofar as there is reason to believe that Wahhabi enterprises are giving rise to perhaps the most insidious enemy of all: an Islamist Fifth Column operating within this country.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Against Us

Under the Bush and Obama administrations, the favored name for the enemy has been "violent extremism" - a formulation that neither offers clarity about the true nature of our foe nor lends itself to a prescription for a successful countervailing strategy.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The real reason they hate us