Vasilis Chronopoulos

The hopes of a solution to the Cyprus issue ran high during the negotiations in Crans Montana, Switzerland, only to be swiftly extinguished by Turkey’s insistence to maintain a military presence and intervention rights on the island. Negotiations came to an end on July 7th and now the attention is focused on the energy game. […]

A chilling video from Syria surfaced this week, showing Russian nationals torturing a prisoner with a sledgehammer. I say nationals because while we clearly hear them speak Russian, it is unclear if they are members of the Russian armed forces or members of a Russian PMC known as Wagner.  That would make a small difference […]

Greece’s former Prime Minister Lucas Papademos was the target of a terrorist attack today. Mr. Papademos opened a letter that contained an IED while in his car. A driver and a bodyguard riding with him were also injured in the blast. Mr. Papademos served as Prime Minister from November 2011 to May 2012, appointed head of […]

The recent reports of two packages containing bombs delivered to top officials of the European Union have the police forces bewildered. Yet again, a terrorist group based in Greece has managed to send explosives via mail, resulting in the injury of an IMF employee and causing turmoil in the police and secret agencies community. The […]

A Russian plane bombed a building in Syria today, killing three Turkish soldiers. The accident came one day after the announcement that Turkey intends to make use of its special forces deeper in Syria The accident happened near the town of al-Bab, which Turkish troops and Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters are trying to take back […]

Raid: a type of operation that captivates the mind and many people believe that it is the essence of what SOF units are about, hit hard and get out quickly, leaving only destruction in your wake. One such operation that I found fascinating as a young reader of military history was the Israeli raid on […]

On July 15th 2016, a coup d’état was attempted in Turkey. The coup was badly organized, as we learned later, with units believing they were headed to an anti-terrorism exercise (hence their deployment in urban centers). And it failed badly, with soldiers getting executed by an angry mob of President Erdogan supporters. In the wake […]

Golden showers, hookers, and Trump are the latest talk of the day, and no, it isn’t a 4chan prank, but an intelligence report from a former MI6 intelligence officer-turned private intelligence contractor. Now, we must make an important distinction that, just because the report was compiled by a former intelligence officer, this does not make any […]

For a long time now, I have been a subscriber to the YouTube channel called Forgotten Weapons. There, the host Ian McCollum presents a wide variety of obscure and rare firearms. What I find interesting is that Mr. McCollum aside from production details, history and anecdotes for each weapon, field strips them (when is not a […]

Information is still coming in, but at the moment we know there were at least three terrorists who tried to detonated a VBIED or car bomb in close proximity to the Izmir courthouse but were stopped at a police checkpoint before reaching their target. Two of the terrorists were shot and killed by police and a third […]

About a week ago, Pravda posted an article about the death of a NATO employee. Yves Chandelon had committed suicide on December 22nd, but the Russian outlet’s interpretation of the event read like a noir novel. According to the post, Mr. Chandelon was NATO’s chief auditor tasked with investigating terrorist finances. A mysterious man who […]

Any modern country has a wide variety of assets to protect. Some of those assets are more necessary than others for the country’s security, welfare, and economy in general. Such critical assets include power grids, water supplies, public-transit systems, and telecommunications, to name a few. Critical infrastructure has to be protected from a wide variety of […]