Each time that North Korea conducts missile testing the media sites within the United States explode into a panic and...
Isaiah Burkhart's Archives
Karzai: Spilling Vomit To Save His Own
As the U.S. and NATO forces start their withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Karzai is consistently making statements and instilling policies...
Who Inspired Boston?
In the days since the Boston Marathon bombing, one of the attacking brothers has been killed and the other is...
Protein, Pull-ups, and Offset Infils
When comparing myself to other men in Ranger Battalion, I never labelled myself as the strongest or the fastest. I...
Eric Harroun: Not Our Soldier of Fortune
Merriam-Webster defines soldier of fortune as “one who follows a military career wherever there is promise of profit, adventure, or...
The al-Nusra Front: al-Qaeda’s Syrian Love Child (Part III)
The fighting in Syria is becoming more convoluted and distorted by the day. When the fighting first started, it was...
No Kidding There I Was…Rangers Flying On AMBIEN
As many soldiers have experienced, a trip to Iraq or Afghanistan can seem quite exhausting. In Ranger Battalion, we at least had...
The al-Nusra Front: al-Qaeda’s Syrian Love Child (Part II)
The strategies and tactics of the al-Nusra Front (ANF) are working due to the nature of the organization, lessons learned...
Syria and Chemical Weapons
There have been reports from multiple news agencies that chemical weapons have been used during the fighting in Syria. The...
Wardak: ANSF Turn on SOF?
On March 11th, two U.S. SOF soldiers were killed and several more were wounded when an Afghan policeman fired a...
General Mattis: Drones to Afghanistan
In a recent meeting with the House Armed Services Committee, the commander of US Central Command General Mattis stated his...
The al-Nusra Front: al-Qaeda’s Syrian Love Child (Part 1)
al-Qaeda (AQ) has links to various jihadist groups throughout the world and is considered the world’s foremost terrorist organization. In...
The United States’ Slippery Slope to Syria
The U.S. policy on aid to Syria is tilting dangerously in the direction of military support. There are many who...
160th SOAR Receives Honors
It goes without saying, as a whole, the Night Stalkers are the best helicopter pilots that the world has to...
Problems: SOF Out Of Maidan Wardak?
The allegations of beheadings and kidnappings by US Forces has caused Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, to order a withdrawal of...
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