Category: Expert Analysis

Alien Gear pistol holsters have benefitted from some excellent marketing on the internet as of late. Thanks to Facebook’s targeted marketing algorithm, Alien Gear ads have inundated my news feed for months, touting the holster as the “world’s most comfortable” inside-the-belt holster. The price points for these holsters run between $29.88 and $43.88, which seemed […]

Retired CIA officer Sam Faddis recently appeared on Tipping Point to discuss the incoming Trump administration and what that means for the CIA.  Sam comments on what he thinks of Trump’s nominee for the Director of Central Intelligence as well as the State Department.  After, he discusses the long term issues in Iraq and the […]

Part of me dies inside when I hear people talk about “tier one” or white “vanilla” special operations in relation to so-called black special operations.  The public throws these words around, but realistically, they only do it because of the the number of active duty and retired special operations soldiers who use these words without having a clue […]

Like many veterans, I have a love/hate relationship with the VA. The Department of Veterans Affairs sends me a check every month for the parts of my knees that won’t grow back, the metal screen in my stomach, the various screws and pins they cobbled me together with, and they even put up the cash […]

There has been a lot in the news lately about military tensions between Russia and the Western world, and although both NATO and Russian leaders claim that they do not want another cold war to start, concerns about Russian aggression persist. Last week, leaders in the European Union announced a unified defense fund that could […]

With the fall of Aleppo to regime forces in Syria signaling a turning point in the war, some more hawkish members of the media are in a full blown panic.  In a last ditch attempt to demonize the Syrian government and push for regime change, the Daily Beast has published a somewhat bizarre account of […]

Fallout 4 is the latest installment in Bethesda’s radiation infused, post-apocalyptic video game series.  The game follows the story of either a male or female protagonist as they survive the onset of nuclear war, only to watch their spouse die and have their young child kidnapped.  The male hero of the story is a decorated […]

When I was with the cadre at the SEAL sniper school, we often went outside of the military for ways to enhance our instruction.  One lesson we did not have to go far to find, and one learned by former Prisoners of War (POWs) is the power of flow with regards to visualization. Many POWs […]

Washington D.C. — House leaders introduced the final conference report for the Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Nov. 30 authorizing up to $100 million to special operations forces to combat terrorism. The inclusion follows reports that President Barack Obama is expanding the authority of Special Operations Command (SOCOM) to hunt terrorist cells […]

After months of theory and preparation, you are finally out with your rifle, ready to take your first long range shot. The first thing you need to do, is to compensate for bullet drop, and to do that you need to know the distance from your target. If you are in the comfort of a […]

In part one and part two, we went over the technical and personal aspects that make a good interrogator. But you still need the training. During Advanced Individual Training (AIT), we learn about rapport building and approaches. These aspects of interrogation are all about creating a relationship, both positive and negative, with the detainee. The […]

Following the long range shooting series? Here’s the next installment of external ballistics theory: the Coriolis Effect. On Bullet Trajectory Part 1 and part 2, I talked about Coriolis Effect as a variable which affect the bullet flight both on the horizontal and the vertical plane of the trajectory. But what exactly is Coriolis Effect? […]