Pete Nealen

The people spreading this narrative have a vested interest in spinning every story to make it appear that the current administration is forcing the military to bend a knee to our adversaries.

Guerrilla warfare is nothing new. Neither is proxy war. China’s history of using indirect methods to erode and undermine their enemies without battle goes back to the earliest treatises on warfare written by the general T’ai Kung. (Sun Tzu’s admonition that supreme excellence is found in victory without fighting has nothing to do with pacifism […]

The same drop in oil prices that has hit the Russian economy so hard has hit Venezuela’s even worse. Under the late President Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan economy had become completely reliant on oil revenues. In 1998, the year before Chavez was elected president, oil accounted for 77 percent of Venezuela’s exports. By 2011, 96 […]

There are those agitating right now to have the Medal of Honor awarded because of a movie. Some are doing so because they are caught up in the hero-worship attached to said movie. Others are doing so as a political statement. Neither motivation is justification for attempting to cheapen the value of the Medal of Honor by […]

There is a very real tendency, particularly in certain circles of American thought, to believe that somehow, just by changing policy, wars can be ended and peace can be built.  The truth is, whenever violence has been utilized, there really is no going back. We see it with the isolationist crowd, who think that just […]

On Thursday, January 22, Yemen’s President Ahmed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, along with the entire Yemeni government, resigned in the face of the continuing feud with the Houthi rebels.  Several power-sharing agreements with the Houthis have already fallen through, and rebels stormed the presidential compound in Sana’a on Tuesday, clashing with security forces. Apparently deciding that, with […]

You see, Moore is nobody. He’s never put his fat ass on the line in any way, shape or form. He’s a comfortable, rich assclown who’s never accomplished anything worthwhile in his life.

The key to winning wars, or simply managing chaos, is understanding not only what is going on, but why, and how it has been dealt with in the past.

On February 22, 2014, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, head of the Sinaloa Cartel, was captured in his beachside house in Mazatlan by Mexican Marines. It was the culmination of a 13-year manhunt for the drug lord, and was praised as a major coup. A “big strike,”according to former Mexican President Calderon. El Chapo was the most […]

This convergence of organized crime, guerrilla warfare, and terrorism, along with the growing fragmentation of loyalties along tribal, ethnic, and sectarian lines, provides other powers with opportunities for power projection.

While most of the attention given in the last few months to events in Iraq and Syria has focused on the Kurdish fighters in Iraqi Kurdistan and Rojava, the Kurds don’t particularly care about the rest of Iraq. The majority of the organizations moving to secure Arab Iraq are Shi’a militias, the most prominent (and powerful) […]

In an earlier post, I examined some of the cartel diversification (not all of it was new by any means) that would sharply limit attempts to combat the cartels by way of marijuana legalization. Here, we’re going to narrow the focus to a few players and incidents, as an illustration of just how complicated the […]