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Iraqi civilians and officials have voiced concern over the humanitarian situation in the country’s western cities of Fallujah and Ramadi. “The situation is deteriorating every day – the shortage of food is becoming worse,” a member of the Anbar Province’s security committee, Rajeh Barakat al-Issawi, told Al Jazeera. “ISIL fighters are banning all and any […]
Sun Tzu, generally considered a reliable source on Good War Ideas, said something along the lines of, “You’ve got to know your enemy in order to beat him, because some dudes hate being kicked in the junk and others seem to enjoy it.” The difficulty we’ve had defeating ISIS suggests that, maybe, we don’t really […]
War, huh. What is it good for? Fucking people up, for one. It’s super good at that. And where there are war zones, there are hospitals full of hardworking people putting those victims back together. What you may not have realized is that medicine often doesn’t discriminate — these guys will stitch together comrades, enemies, and civilians […]
Check out this Q&A with Neal Bascomb, the author of “Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb.” You can order “Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb” on Amazon now. What inspired you to write the story? Richard Rhodes. Many years ago, I devoured his history of the making of the […]
The Navy SEAL killed in action against ISIS in Iraq last week will be posthumously promoted to chief petty officer, the chief of naval personnel’s office announced Wednesday. Special Warfare Operator 1st Class (SEAL) Charlie Keating IV, 31, who came in contact with fighters May 3 as part of a quick-reaction force backing up American troops advising […]
It has come to my attention as the Editor of the Loadout Room that we had an article published that was taken from another site without permission. We have pulled the article from our website and have taken disciplinary action with the writer (Dirtfrog). Max (aka Dirtfrog) is new to our team as a writer […]
A combat-hardened Green Beret has unleashed a barrage of indictments against the command in Afghanistan and policymakers in Washington, saying the 14-year-old war effort suffers from a “profound lack of strategy” and that special operations overseers show “moral cowardice.” “The enemy operates with impunity throughout the country due to our relentless commitment to avoid principled strategy and […]
After major terrorist attacks hit Brussels and Paris, Europe is still reeling. These atrocities prompted a heated dispute between two noted French scholars of political Islam, Gilles Kepel and Olivier Roy, over why a handful of European Muslims become terrorists. Their disagreement isn’t just an intellectual squabble. It strikes to the heart of how the West understands violent Islamist extremism […]
Check out this sneak peek of Jack Murphy’s forthcoming action-adventure novel “Gray Matter Splatter.”
Even if only a percentage of the story is true, bravo to the honeypot “Elvira” for her efforts to kill ISIS from within.
Marine veteran Amir Hekmati was brutally tortured during the 4½ years that the Iranian government held him as a hostage, he says in a lawsuit. Hekmati was arrested in August 2011 after he traveled to Iran to visit his grandmother. He was released in January and now is suing the Iranian government in the hopes […]
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