U.S. Opens First Permanent Air Defense Base Inside Israel

In a historic development, the United States, for the first since its inception in 1948, has established a permanent military base in Israel. The US will send dozens of US Air Force personnel to man an air defense base inside the Israeli Air Force’s Mashabim Air Base, deep in the heart of the Negev desert. […]

Turkey Sends Military Equipment and Tanks to the Syrian Border

Turkey’s state-run news organization Anadolu is reporting that the military of President Erdogan has sent 80 military vehicles including tanks to its southern border with Syria. The military forces were deployed to the Iskendurun district of the southeastern province of Hatay, as part of the government’s plan to reinforce troops along the Turkish/Syrian border according […]

Homemade Explosives Training And Why it is Important to SOF

By now we are all aware of the horrible accident suffered by the cadre members and students at the JFK SWC (Special Warfare Center) on Thursday where the US Army Green Berets are trained at Ft. Bragg, NC. While the details are still sketchy, the class of prospective Special Forces Engineers (18C) were attending a […]

Improvised Explosive Device Explodes in London Subway

London was the scene of another terrorist attack on Friday as an early morning rush-hour blast caused by an improvised explosive device in the subway injured 22 people. The London’s Metropolitan Police and the British government (MI5) are treating this as a terrorist attack. The blast occurred during the most demanding time of the morning […]

American Who Fought for ISIS Will Be Treated as ‘Enemy Combatant’

An American citizen who fought for the Islamic State in Syria and surrendered to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was turned over to US forces according to the U.S. Department of Defense. In a released statement, U.S. military officials said earlier that an American citizen who was fighting with ISIS and surrendered on September 12 […]

Book Review: “The Double Agents” (Men at War #6) W.E.B. Griffin

I will be the first to say that I am always ready to read anything pertaining to the OSS in World War II and love the genre. I’ve read many of W.E.B. Griffin’s books and they follow along a same general outline. The plot and character development take up the vast majority of the novel […]

Russian Zapad 2017 Exercise Has European Countries On Edge

countries are justifiably nervous with the news that the Russian-Belarussian military joint strategic level exercises Zapad-2017 (“West-2017”) begin today, September 14 across the Russian’s Kaliningrad western military district and Belarus. The Russians have used large exercises such as this, in the past to preposition troops and equipment before engaging in offensive operations, such as Georgia […]

Chelsea Manning, Sean Spicer Among Visiting Harvard Fellows

Chelsea Manning and former White House press secretary Sean Spicer have been named, among others as visiting fellows at Harvard University, the school announced Wednesday. The visiting fellows normally attend school functions, lead study groups and talk about their own particular background specialties. “We welcome the breadth of thought-provoking viewpoints on race, gender, politics and the […]

Robert Rogers, the Brilliant if Flawed First American Special Operator

One of the first American heroes in our nation’s history was a man who had two distinct lives. One before the American Revolution and one after. Robert Rogers was famous for his companies of Rangers during the French and Indian War. He was a brilliant officer and outdoorsman and his men served the British and […]

ISIS Recruiting Fighters for the Philippines, Not Syria

With the pressure on the Islamic State growing in the Middle East, and the beating they’re taking in Syria and Iraq, ISIS is changing its recruiting tactics to gather fighters for the fighting in the Philippines. Foreign fighters are defecting by the hundreds in Syria and Iraq, so ISIS is putting the Philippines as their […]

ISIS Defectors Fleeing Syria For Turkey, Europe, Middle East

Like rats fleeing a sinking ship, hundreds of foreign fighters for the Islamic State, seeing the writing on the wall, are massing in Syria’s Idlib province with plans to cross into nearby Turkey and find other ways to get back into the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. Several dozen former fighters have already made it […]