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When we discuss the battle in Holland during Operation Market Garden, we naturally think about the paratroopers of the U.S. and Britain trying to secure five bridges at Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem for the armor of the British XXX Corps to get into Germany and end the war early. Later they were trying to get […]

The Senate, by an overwhelming 89-8 vote, approved legislation that will authorize $700 billion in military defense spending that will honor the campaign pledge made by President Trump to rebuild the military that he said was degraded during the previous Obama administration. This $700 billion bill will put the U.S. armed forces on track for […]

An Israeli Patriot Missile battery shot down an Iranian-built drone over the Golan Heights on Tuesday, just hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly about concerns of Iranian and Hezbollah forces on the Syrian border with Israel. The Israeli military stated that the Iranian-built drone was launched from Damascus on a […]

The President has designated this month as National Preparedness Month and so with that in mind…let’s talk about Go Bags. Most people outside of the military, law enforcement and weary world travelers don’t know what a go bag is so I guess defining what it is should be our first order of business. Your Go […]

Members of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) which has been monitoring the ongoing wars in Iraq and Syria have stated that they have “grave fears” for more than 1300 foreign women and children, family members of ISIS who have been detained by the Iraqi government as they tried to flee the country. “The families had […]

Chelsea Manning was on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts over the weekend and said that she is not an “American traitor” and did things that she thought was right. Speaking on Sunday to about 600 people as part of the Nantucket Project, the venture is part of an organization that strives to bring together creative people […]

By now we are all aware of the horrible accident suffered by the cadre members and students at the JFK SWC (Special Warfare Center) on Thursday where the US Army Green Berets are trained at Ft. Bragg, NC. While the details are still sketchy, the class of prospective Special Forces Engineers (18C) were attending a […]

London was the scene of another terrorist attack on Friday as an early morning rush-hour blast caused by an improvised explosive device in the subway injured 22 people. The London’s Metropolitan Police and the British government (MI5) are treating this as a terrorist attack. The blast occurred during the most demanding time of the morning […]

countries are justifiably nervous with the news that the Russian-Belarussian military joint strategic level exercises Zapad-2017 (“West-2017”) begin today, September 14 across the Russian’s Kaliningrad western military district and Belarus. The Russians have used large exercises such as this, in the past to preposition troops and equipment before engaging in offensive operations, such as Georgia […]

Chelsea Manning and former White House press secretary Sean Spicer have been named, among others as visiting fellows at Harvard University, the school announced Wednesday. The visiting fellows normally attend school functions, lead study groups and talk about their own particular background specialties. “We welcome the breadth of thought-provoking viewpoints on race, gender, politics and the […]

One of the first American heroes in our nation’s history was a man who had two distinct lives. One before the American Revolution and one after. Robert Rogers was famous for his companies of Rangers during the French and Indian War. He was a brilliant officer and outdoorsman and his men served the British and […]

With the pressure on the Islamic State growing in the Middle East, and the beating they’re taking in Syria and Iraq, ISIS is changing its recruiting tactics to gather fighters for the fighting in the Philippines. Foreign fighters are defecting by the hundreds in Syria and Iraq, so ISIS is putting the Philippines as their […]