Category: Security

Two French soldiers were killed in an IED attack days after an ambush claimed the lives of ten Malian soldiers near the Mauritania border.

Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles killed eight people on Sunday at a wildlife reserve in Niger. They included six French humanitarian workers, their Nigerien driver, and their guide, according to Nigerien and French authorities. No one has claimed responsibility but French authorities are calling this a terrorist attack.  The group of French humanitarian workers from the […]

Poland and the U.S. have reached the Enhanced Cooperation Agreement. Under it, 5,500 U.S. troops will be stationed at bases in Poland; the Polish will bear the majority of the costs associated with the U.S. troops’ move.  Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that the Agreement with Poland “will enhance deterrence against Russia, strengthen NATO, reassure our […]

It is with a healthy mindfulness of the need for wisdom and humility in the face of complex discourse that we introduce the author’s personal opinion of the notion of a so-called “deep state” in American politics. It is not the author’s intent to investigate matters outside his understanding, nor to imply disrespect towards different […]

After talks between Washington and Baghdad on resetting the relationship between the two countries, the Iraqis finally took action against Iranian proxy militias that have been launching mortar and rocket fire attacks at bases housing U.S. troops. Iraqi inaction had been a major thorn in the U.S.’s side for months. As a result, the Iraqi […]

Italian police made a huge drug bust when they impounded three suspicious container ships on Wednesday that contained 15.4 tons (14 metric tons) of amphetamines, manufactured by ISIS in Syria. Law enforcement officials said the haul is the world’s largest drug bust in terms of both value and quantity. Authorities were tipped off about the […]

Despite some modest military gains by the governments in the past few months, the political instability in many West African nations, especially in Burkina Faso and Mali, could risk all of that and plunge the entire region into chaos. The members of the G5 Sahel are holding a summit in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott […]

A wave of recent attacks in Afghanistan has left the Afghani government infuriated. Over the past week, the Taliban carried out 422 attacks in 32 provinces, killing a minimum of 291 Afghan security personnel and wounding 550 others. This marks the deadliest week in the country’s 19-year war, even as the Taliban reject the figures. […]

On June 9, President Trump released the “Memorandum on Safeguarding U.S. Interests in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions.” The Memorandum flew mostly under the radar, yet it is indicative of increased U.S. interest in the polar regions and a response to the adverse power balance in the Arctic. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean […]

Today I am going to present two techniques, one offensive and one defensive. The first is how to shim a door using the ol’ “credit card trick.”  The second is how to protect your doors from being shimmed. This is the first post in a series tagged Defense Against Methods of Entry (DAME). The DAME […]

Editor’s note: This article was written by Louis Tayler and originally published on Grey Dynamics. This report seeks to offer an assessment of the recent deployment of Russian aircraft in Libya in support to the LNA. Key Judgements On a tactical level, as many as 14 Russian piloted aircraft competently used will likely increase the LNA’s […]

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by Justin “Graveyard” Fields for Swift | Silent | Deadly. This article contains affiliate links. In my last post on physical security I talked about improving the security of your locking knobset. This time I am going to talk about the real workhorse of personnel door security: the […]