Category: Admin

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 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 […]

The government of Pakistan has made it very clear, and they are correct that the war on terror “cannot be won by excluding or confronting” Islamabad. Despite the words of President Trump (also correct) criticizing Pakistan’s penchant for allowing terrorists linked to the Taliban and the Haqqani network to hide in their territory, Pakistan vows […]

In the summer of 1940, the German army was a juggernaut. The punched a hole through Belgium, rolled across France and were preparing for the coup de grace, the invasion of England. Even the ever-confident Hitler was surprised at the speed in which the Germans crushed the allied forces of Britain, France, and Belgium. The […]

With Hurricane Irma still a Category 5 storm and one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic, the military has ordered an evacuation of over five thousand personnel from the Key West Naval Air Station in Florida. As the storm lashes the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands with heavy […]

We get a lot of questions in relating to passing the Selection courses for our Special Operations Forces. Most of them center around the physical aspects of the training and probably 90 percent involve either carrying a rucksack or land navigation, while also carrying a rucksack. That’s why we have put together so many columns […]

Call this one life imitating art. Someone in the Pentagon must have been a fan of those Batman films. You remember the ones where he scales up the side of a building on a rope. Well, the Army researched it and put their best people on it. But it wasn’t Lucius Fox, it was Nate […]

A recent study by some university professors in Australia has come up with startling conclusions. The more the media covers terrorism and specific acts of terror, the more it tends to inspire copycat terror attacks. Is this the plan by terrorists in the first place or the psychological phenomenon known as the Werther effect? Either […]

Opinion – The administration of President Trump, when not engaging in a 7th grade Twitter War with King Jong Un from North Korea,  has invested long-term in Afghanistan. Right or wrong isn’t the topic here but the manner in which the United States decides to prosecute the war. A couple of the President’s advisers, including […]

Despite agreeing to a peace treaty with the government which would put an end to more than fifty years of war, the killings continue in Colombia. The second largest guerrilla organization, the ELN guerrilla group, said a Russian-Armenian citizen it held hostage for six months was killed in April while trying to escape. One of […]

Despite Russia’s insistence that they are not trying to influence foreign elections, German political party members are claiming that their website has been hit with thousands of cyber-attacks. The vice chairman of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union says that their website has been hit with thousands of cyber-attacks before Sunday’s televised election debate. […]

The Army is investigating Major General Joseph Harrington, the commander of US forces in Africa for reportedly sending dozens of messages to the wife of an enlisted soldier under his command. Gen. Harrington’s alleged Facebook messages, many of whom are suggestive, range from flattering to flirty and include a request to the woman that she delete […]