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Mali: Terrorism Report Background: The Northern Mali Conflict On 16 January 2012, several insurgent groups began fighting a campaign against the Malian government for independence and greater autonomy for northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), an organization fighting to make Azawad an independent homeland for the Tuareg people, had […]
Imagine carrying a struggling pregnant woman through the bowels of the jungle, pushing your body and straining your spirit just to get her somewhere where she might have a shot at surviving. This kind of thing happens every day. The jungles of Burma (Myanmar) have suffered through a devastating civil war for over 70 years. While […]
In light of recent events in Niger where four US Special Forces soldiers were killed, many people are wondering: who are these terror groups operating in Africa? How many terrorist groups are in Africa? There is no short story to the history of terrorism in Africa, and there have long been Islamic terror groups operating […]
Berlin—Germany will continue to arm and train the Kurdish Peshmerga. The German Defense Ministry announced its intent to restart the weapons program. The program was unexpectedly halted last week over Iraqi-Kurdish tensions in Kirkuk following the Kurdish Referendum. Iraqi officials claimed that German-provided MILAN anti-tank missiles destroyed two Iraqi M1 Abrams. “We had agreed last […]
Athens—Lt. General Mark Schwartz, the Commander of Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR), recently visited Greece. During his brief visit, Lt. Gen. Schwartz met with the Greek Joint Chief of Staff, Admiral Evagelos Apostolakis, and discussed ways on how to further improve the cooperation and good relations between the two countries and their Special Operations Forces […]
A great deal of attention has been paid to outwardly directed influence campaigns mounted by world governments in recent months. At the forefront of the public’s attention has been Russia, due to their efforts to influence voters leading up to the 2016 Presidential election, and following efforts to sow discord within the American people in […]
According to a report on October 22nd in the New York Times, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is set to accelerate its operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan, breaking with its approach over the last 15-plus years of primarily directing the bulk of its efforts in targeting al-Qaeda, its leadership, and only the senior-most Taliban […]
Prague—Czechs flocked to the polls, and a pro-Russia oligarch is set to become the next Prime Minister. Billionaire Andrej Babis and his populist ANO party are running under an anti-immigration and anti-EU slate. Voting ended on Saturday, and exit polls see Babis capping first place with close to 30%. Emperor of his country’s agricultural, chemical, […]
The Royal Marine Commandos are changing. The Royal Navy is getting two new aircraft carriers, and thus an expanded need for an organic force capable of Maritime interdiction operations (MIO), Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS), and personnel recovery (PR). To assume this task, 42 Commando has reorganized as a Maritime Operations Commando (MOC). With […]
This is a preemptive call to the media and Democrats — a plea — to not try to turn this month’s Special Forces operation in Niger into another Benghazi-style controversy. What happened to the fallen Special Forces men in Africa is not comparable to what happened in Benghazi. Nor should what happened in the course […]
“It’s a lot of make it up as you go.” Dr. Jack Chamberlain has been practicing medicine in rural areas around the world since 1993. A U. S. based physician turned humanitarian aid worker, he has practiced medicine everywhere from the ER of Detroit to the war-torn jungles of Burma. “Marginalized medicine” is a term […]
“How do we get ahead of crazy if we don’t know how crazy thinks?” Netflix’s “Mindhunter” follows two FBI agents in the 1970s. Apparently at that time, the whole concept of a serial killer was a pretty foreign concept, and the two protagonists, special agents of the FBI, take on the burden of pioneering this […]
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