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Nick recently published an article on digital security. My article piggybacks off those concepts by taking a deep dive into how to establish secure communications, something all the more critical during our hyper-reliance on remote working capabilities, online services, etc. The Internet: Land of opportunity but fraught with stranger danger Today’s digital landscape increases the […]
Each time the latest data breach news is made public, there’s generally widespread disdain toward the company responsible for not doing more to protect affected data. What people often overlook is they shouldn’t have trusted that company with their information in the first place. You know, details on social media like where you work, what […]
Preliminary reports from various outlets suggest that North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un’s (KJU) health is possibly at risk following an alleged cardiovascular procedure earlier this month for which he is receiving treatment. The approximately 36-year-old dictator’s health has long been a point of speculation for observers outside North Korea’s notoriously closed society. His country is […]
Russia’s Wagner Group is having an increasingly difficult time in Africa. About a year ago, Moscow was crowing about beating the West and China in securing private military contracts, underbidding several western countries’ bids by touting their “Syrian Model” of success. As a result, they ended landing upwards of 20 private military contracts in Africa. […]
“Send us the Goddamn cold-weather equipment we ordered from supply. Signed, Freezing in Fucking Afghanistan.” This message was sent to the Commanding Officer of SEAL Team 3 by my platoon Chief in December of 2001. Sometimes leaders have incredibly tough decisions to make. Especially when traditional channels of communication aren’t working. In rare cases going […]
Among a thousand other issues caused by the spread of COVID-19, the Navy’s leadership has been in turmoil this past week. It’s just not every day that we see a Captain removed from a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The situation reminds me of the movie Crimson Tide when on a nuclear-powered submarine, the XO (Denzel Washington) […]
“We are not a second land army, nor do we aspire to be anything other than the world’s premier naval expeditionary force.“ General David Berger’s “Commandant’s Planning Guidance” (CPG) may be one of the most ambitious such documents in Marine Corps history. It envisions sweeping changes in Marine Corps structure and doctrine, carrying it both […]
Believe it or not, your CO can order you to be a human guinea pig Many of us have heard the expression, “Canary in a coal mine.” It refers to a time when miners would carry caged birds with them as they entered mine tunnels. If the miners encountered dangerous gases such as carbon monoxide, […]
With the coronavirus on a rampage around the world, how could this impact our national security in the future? What is the real cost of COVID-19, and how can we afford next year’s budget? The president has proposed a $45.8 billion government-wide funding package that will provide DoD with $8.3 billion to assist in dealing […]
Lithium is a critical component in the effort to transition to a more sustainable global economy as it is used in the lithium batteries of electric vehicles. Lithium produces the simplest pair (energy density, weight) so it is very efficient. A cobalt Li-ion battery stores twice the maximum amount of energy as a nickel-based battery […]
With new information about how the virus is spread, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommended on Friday that everyone now should cover our faces in public, whether with a mask or otherwise. Yet, public health officials had thus been uncompromising in their stance that healthy people should not wear masks as a way to […]
Some of my experience in this field includes live nerve agent decontamination training with the Delta Force and years of platform instruction and field training for First Responders in Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Crisis Response. It is strongly suggested that if the below procedures are followed when entering and exiting your private residence you will […]
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