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is a former US Army Infantry Officer. While a Platoon Leader in Afghanistan, he was part of a joint Special Forces/Infantry team conducting Village Stability Operations in Kandahar Province. Travis graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point in 2010.
A multi-day standoff in Bangladesh ended in violence today as militants believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State killed themselves in an explosion. The blast killed up to eight people, including a child, and comes shortly after another operation targeting Islamist militants ended with bombings and the deaths of six people earlier this week. […]
Senator John McCain (R-Az.) is currently involved in an ongoing indirect dialogue with the North Korean government after offending the sensibilities of the Dear Leader, Kim Jon-un. In a television interview earlier this month, McCain called the dictator a “crazy fat kid” who shows no rational thought or behavior. He also said that “we’re not […]
CENTCOM Commander General Joseph Votel says that Iran is the greatest threat to regional stability in the Middle East, and the U.S. should look to disrupt their activities through military or other means. General Votel gave testimony before the House Armed Services Committee yesterday, where Iran and its disrupting and confrontational presence in the greater […]
Italian police have raided an alleged terrorist cell in Venice today, arresting three men and a young woman who were planning to travel to Syria. The suspects were detained in the heart of historic Venice, in a series of raids conducted by police in the early morning. All four of the suspects are from Kosovo, […]
A recently released poll by Rasmussen Reports found that 42% of Americans believe the U.S. is winning the war on terrorism. The findings showcase the highest level of confidence in the ongoing war since January of 2013. The highest level of the past few years was 45%, just before President Trump took office in January. […]
A video of a boy receiving a pat-down search by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer is going viral on Facebook, and causing a considerable amount of outrage from people on the internet. The boy who received the 2-minute long search was stopped after his laptop triggered an alarm as it was put through security […]
Flying over Panjwai in early March was an apocalyptic image. No signs of vegetation or life, just barren fields for miles, consisting of deep farm rows, bordered by thick mud walls, with grape huts jutting out unnaturally from the landscape every few hundred meters. When I landed at VSP (Village Stability Platform) Belambai, the ODA […]
Read Part One here. Rumors were going around within a week of being on the job that we were deploying to Afghanistan that winter, only four months away. Right before we loaded up for a month-long rotation to the National Training Center (NTC), it came down the pipe that our battalion would be given the […]
In a speech at the University of Texas at Austin this week, FBI Director James Comey again warned of the coming ‘terrorist diaspora’ that will ensue following the collapse of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The Islamic State has attracted an unprecedented amount of international support since its inception in 2014. Tens of thousands of […]
“Wait…you were his platoon leader?” I’ve received this particular question probably about a hundred times over the last five years, and roughly 95% of the time, it’s followed by a particular look of recognition, doubt, and horror, all combined into one washing over the asker’s face. As I recall the details of the story, and […]
Last week, trolls from 4chan executed a highly effective crowd-sourced intelligence operation, one that should serve as a case study in modern information warfare. In what illustrates the power of a decentralized and flat operational hierarchy, internet trolls from the website 4chan targeted and shut down actor Shia Labeouf and his recent “He Will Not […]
Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, said on Tuesday Israeli intelligence believes Hezbollah’s former military leader was murdered by his own men. Mustafa Badreddine was killed last year in an explosion, originally attributed by Hezbollah as an Israeli airstrike, and then an assassination from a rival Sunni militant group. A […]
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