Category: Expert Analysis

Western governments protest the government of Mali hiring Russian mercenaries under the guise of bringing in the Wagner Group which is accused of operating as a proxy for Moscow and Vladamir Putin.

Many people will either be hosting or heading out to holiday parties and get-togethers to celebrate Christmas and the upcoming New Year. Others will take the time to rest and recharge their batteries and spend some quiet time at home.  If you are one of the latter and want to spend some quiet time reading […]

You might be very surprised to find out that when Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night in 1777 he wasn’t really depriving his own men of anything. Christmas was all but banned by law in the thirteen colonies at the time. But he still used the holiday to his military advantage against the Hessians.

Recent developments point to how the USS Connecticut collided with a sea mount in October. It relates to how the Navy treated her commanding officer, executive officer and Chief of the Boat.

China is building new military installations along its border with India in a region with a history of clashes between the two countries.

Israel has been bombing targets in Syria for decades that it perceives as a threat to its own security. Most famously, their 2007 raid that destroyed a North Korean-built nuclear reactor in Deir al-Zour province. A story in the Washington Post now claims that Israeli aircraft have made repeated strikes on chemical weapons productions and storage facilities within Syria.

The Takuba Special Operations Task Force, comprised of French Special Operations troops has killed a key leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) for his part in the murders of six civilian aid workers and two guides in Niger in 2020.

The Pentagon’s restatement of its policy regarding extremism in the ranks contains clarifications on social media and commanding officer discretion in handling these situations. This should prevent the policy from being used to conduct a witch hunt of service members merely suspected of being extremists.

SOFREP’s Matt Hill, a Marine vet and law enforcement officer working for a school district asks if TikTok is making war on America’s Kids by allowing “Challenges” that encourage teenagers to engage in felony act of vandalism, assault and even mass shootings on school campuses. TikTok is owned by a Communist Chinese company that closely cooperates with the dictates of the government in Beijing. Is TikTok permissive of these things under orders from the Communists?

The U.S. Navy has tested a high-energy laser in the Gulf of Aden putting China and Iran on notice that its hypersonic missile developments may have been a big waste of time and money.

C-Ram Intercepts One Rocket While Another Lands In Civilian Neighborhood Two Katyusha rockets were fired towards the Green Zone where the US embassy is located in Baghdad on Saturday night, according to Iraq’s state-run news service quoting Iraqi security officials. The U.S. Embassy’s C-RAM defense system was activated to intercept the rocket fire. One rocket […]

Taiwan has never been a participant in the U.S. Navy’s largest military exercise, the Rim of the Pacific or RIMPAC. Aggression by Communist China has prompted Congress to tell the Department of Defense to include Taiwan in the next RIMPAC as a show of solidarity with the island nation.