Category: Expert Analysis

We give ISIL a lot of credit in some ways. Even addressing them by their preferred names is a sign of respect. It validates them and helps their cause. By no means am I advocating we do not take our enemy seriously, but leave that to professional warfighters.

Refugees flooding Europe and causing nationwide panic in the United States are a result of the Syrian Civil War. The same war no one is discussing.

“And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, ‘Get down,’ and I put my hands up, I was like ‘whatever.’

Have a simple plan, simpler the better, and brief your loved ones. If authorities don’t have a plan then implement yours, as I did last night.

Nancy Wake was the most decorated woman of World War II. John Lichfield of the Independent wrote that in her life, “she became a nurse, a journalist who interviewed Adolf Hitler, a wealthy French socialite, a British agent and a French resistance leader. She led 7,000 guerrilla fighters in battles against the Nazis in the northern Auvergne, just before the D-Day landings in 1944. On one occasion, she strangled an SS sentry with her bare hands.

This truck stop is a petrie dish of all seething and unclean things the city brings to bear. It is constantly rife with the nation’s nomadic gypsy trash wandering in, and staggering out. I would say the top five most most detestable things I have seen in my civilian life were perceived at that truck stop.

I understand the “quiet professional” aspect of it. No one joined a relatively obscure special ops career field for recognition or glory.

I had an Uber driver not long ago – he was a translator and worked with the Marines, as well as USSF. He spent nearly ten years working on a war footing.

It’s such a small club that on the walls of my old team room, on the staircase leading up from our storage hanger to our team room, are the names of every member that’s ever served on the team. Can you do that in your division at GE?

To the average American this should be unconscionable. Many made their social profile pictures a French flag after one of the tragedies that occurred within that nation. Meanwhile, Syria remains a hell on earth where far more die, in far worse ways.

Iraqis quietly expressed their concern to me that Iran was taking over Iraq, and no one was doing anything about it. The distrust of their comrades ran so deep that some would stop talking to me the second another soldier entered the room, regardless if the other one was a friend.

The Thai government announced that it would be implementing the use of customized SIM cards to allow authorities to track foreigners in the country.