Improvised Explosive Device Explodes in London Subway

Improvised Explosive Device Explodes in London Subway

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 […]

Russian Zapad 2017 Exercise Has European Countries On Edge

Russian Zapad 2017 Exercise Has European Countries On Edge

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, Sean Spicer Among Visiting Harvard Fellows

Chelsea Manning, Sean Spicer Among Visiting Harvard Fellows

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 […]

Robert Rogers, the Brilliant if Flawed First American Special Operator

Robert Rogers, the Brilliant if Flawed First American Special Operator

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 […]

ISIS Recruiting Fighters for the Philippines, Not Syria

ISIS Recruiting Fighters for the Philippines, Not Syria

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 […]

Special Forces Lost a Brother in Twin Towers, a Member of the NYFD

Special Forces Lost a Brother in Twin Towers, a Member of the NYFD

Yesterday we wrote about the tragedy of 9-11 and the horror that we all felt that day 16 years ago as we watched planes fly into the World Trade Center and the thousands of lives that were lost in New York City, in Washington D.C., and in rural Pennsylvania. Almost everyone in the country either […]

Former al-Qaida Operatives Launch New Militant Group in Pakistan

Former al-Qaida Operatives Launch New Militant Group in Pakistan

A new al-Qaida-inspired militant group, the Ansar al-Sharia Pakistan, whose members have grown disaffected with the Islamic State group in the country, has recently emerged in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi claims to act as a platform for militants who breaking away from the IS. The group, Ansar al-Sharia Pakistan, was reportedly formed by […]

Sixteen Years Later, the 9-11 Suspects Are Still Awaiting Trial

Sixteen Years Later, the 9-11 Suspects Are Still Awaiting Trial

Amazingly, sixteen years after Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, five of the accused terrorists who are still held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are still awaiting trial which isn’t expected until at least 2019. Some of the family of the victims in the attacks of that day say […]

9-11, Sixteen Years Later And What It Means To Us Now

9-11, Sixteen Years Later And What It Means To Us Now

It is hard to believe that the awful events on September 11th are now 16 years in the past. Much has changed since then. Our country has been in a constant state of war since that date, and we’re no closer to the end of it than we were on that fateful morning. We, as […]

Pentagon Rushes Doctors Ahead of Irma to Operate on Gitmo Detainee

With Hurricane Irma bearing down on the Caribbean, the Pentagon rushed a neurosurgery team to the Navy base at Guantánamo to operate on the spine of an al-Qaida detainee who was at risk of paralysis. Abd al Hadi al Iraqi, awaiting trial on charges he led the al-Qaida army in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 […]

Hurricane on the Coast? Meh, For 7th SFG It Was Rubber Boat Training Time

Hurricane on the Coast? Meh, For 7th SFG It Was Rubber Boat Training Time

After the disastrous results of Hurricane Harvey that drenched the Houston area with a year’s worth of rain in just a few days and the huge Hurricane Irma that is bearing down on Florida and scheduled to hit this weekend, I see the military is actively involved. As it should be, we wrote here last […]

Two A-10s Crash in Nevada Desert, Both Pilots Rescued

Two A-10s Crash in Nevada Desert, Both Pilots Rescued

Two U.S. Air Force A-10C Thunderbolt ground attack aircraft crashed Wednesday night at Nellis Air Force base’s Nevada Test and Training Range. The planes were assigned to the 57th Wing at Nellis Air Force Base. The Air Force released a statement stating that both pilots ejected safely before the planes hit the ground. The Air […]