America in Africa: Camp Lemonnier & foreign adversaries

America in Africa: Camp Lemonnier & foreign adversaries

This article was written by Eren Ersozoglu and originally published on Grey Dynamics.  The purpose of this Grey Dynamics Africa Intelligence Report is to analyze the benefit of Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti for America’s strategic and geopolitical purposes. Foreign presence will be assessed, and analysis will provide the implications of competing and supporting strategies on […]

From the Holocaust to America’s Special Forces

From the Holocaust to America’s Special Forces

For most people, surviving the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe would be the defining moment of their lives. Men like Major General Sidney Shachnow aren’t most people. The Lithuanian-born Shachnow survived a forced labor camp and went on to join the U.S. Army, serve in Vietnam, and lead the Army Special Forces’ ultra-secret World War III […]

The status of America’s forever wars in the Middle East

The status of America’s forever wars in the Middle East

The Middle East continues to be a hotbed of violence and conflict. U.S. troops have been fighting, advising, and training in the region for almost 20 years. While there will always be U.S. troops deployed to the Middle East under the jurisdiction of the Central Command (CENTCOM), many are questioning how much longer the U.S. […]

Chinese territorial ambitions cause Philippines to reconsider American presence

Chinese territorial ambitions cause Philippines to reconsider American presence

Just a few months after announcing that his country was ending the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States, Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte has reversed that decision, as territorial disputes with China pressured him to act. As Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. posted on social media, the decision’s reversal came “in light […]

The Special Operations world of Sub-Saharan Africa: South African Recces

The Special Operations world of Sub-Saharan Africa: South African Recces

You can read part one here. Langebaan — Western Cape Province, South Africa. It has a predominantly white population of slightly over 8,000 and is located approximately 120 km north of the iconic city of Cape Town. Langebaan boasts of an ecosystem that is the epitome of natural serenity and the lagoon waters of its […]

Trump mobilizes Reserves and sends them to Southern Border

Trump mobilizes Reserves and sends them to Southern Border

A Presidential Order concerning the southern border has activated dozens of reserve units and thousands of individuals. After President Trump declared a national emergency in February 2019 this order comes as no surprise. According to the Order, the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) Reserve Components Medical Corp, Dental Corp, and anesthetist officers will conduct 90-day boots-on-the-ground […]

American revolutionaries begin the Siege of Boston

American revolutionaries begin the Siege of Boston

In April of 1775, the opening shots of the American Revolutionary War were fired at the village green of Lexington. Although the Declaration of Independence was still 15 months away, open conflict had started and it lit a powderkeg that would engulf all of the 13 colonies.  As a result of the incidents in the […]

The Pic of the Day: 8 decades of American airpower in a picture

The Pic of the Day: 8 decades of American airpower in a picture

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Paul Lopez, F-22 Demo Team commander flies alongside a U.S. Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation P-51 Mustang, and U.S. Air Force A-10 Demonstration Team during the Thunder over South Georgia Air Show at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., Nov. 2, 2019. The Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation celebrates U.S. air […]

American aircraft sink Yamato, the world’s largest battleship

American aircraft sink Yamato, the world’s largest battleship

By early 1945, the Japanese Empire was shrinking daily and the war had reached its home shores. Less than three and half years after Pearl Harbor, American industrial might was on full display. And it was never more apparent than during the Battle of Okinawa.  The once-proud Japanese Imperial Navy that Americans feared would threaten […]

Treading carefully: How American troops are protecting Kurdish oil fields

Treading carefully: How American troops are protecting Kurdish oil fields

American troops stationed in eastern Syria have the difficult and dangerous job of guarding the very oil-rich Kurdish-held land. And everyone — the Syrian government, the Russians, the Turks, and ISIS — wants to control it.  The area is developing into a very dangerous place for the American troops: They’ve come under attack from a […]

Two Americans, one British soldier killed in Iraq by rocket attack

Two Americans, one British soldier killed in Iraq by rocket attack

The American military has confirmed, in a released statement, that a rocket attack on an Iraqi base, where U.S. and coalition troops are based, has killed an American and a British soldier and an American contractor. The three men were killed on Camp Taji base as 18 Katyusha rockets slammed into the base on Wednesday […]

Why we should keep deploying troops to South America

Why we should keep deploying troops to South America

The United States has been considering the idea of cutting back troop strengths in both Africa and South America to begin to free-up more troops to counter near-peer potential adversaries in Russia and China.  The opinion here is that this would be a mistake since both Russia and China are actively trying to build their […]