ISIS

The fight against ISIS is a bread-and-butter mission for the likes of CTC and JSOC. This reportedly new campaign is nothing new for these agencies.

The roles of underground operations, guerrilla, sabotage and classic special operations units are groups who act in frustration to opposing forces. In this case the bullet meets the bone in Syria as Kurdish Forces are successfully deploying unconventional warfare tactics against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Kurdish forces have developed and deployed […]

What does the record say about President Obama? And to what or whom is his allegiance and faith?

The American way of life represents the greatest title on our planet. We, like the great boxing champions of our past, must be willing to defend it.

Last Sunday, six Block 40 F-16CM’s from Aviano Air Base‘s 31st Fighter Wing deployed to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. After a brief Local Area Orientation, the Vipers pushed south and struck ISIS targets. This marks a rapid change of direction in Turkey’s policy of not allowing US assets to […]

We don’t know if Russian intelligence has a hand in ISIS propaganda. But we should start to wonder.

This Kurdish Rambo recently joined up with the Peshmerga to help defend Kurdistan from the ISIS hordes.

On 22 September of last year, the United States and her coalition partners in the Middle East began Operation Inherent Resolve, an air campaign designed specifically to target the Islamic State. We have touched on the feasibility of destroying this particular enemy with air power alone, as well as addressed some of the frustrations experienced […]

ISIS would be well advised to note history’s lessons as they begin to wade into battle in Afghanistan, a country known as “The Graveyard of Empires.”

From the moment I was met at my hotel on Sulaymaniyah, I was fed into an underground ratline, a clandestine logistics network for moving people, guns, and even ideas. The driver was a good man with good references. He was to drive me north, from Suly up into the mountains of northern Kurdistan. It was […]

The administration’s Syria strategy has reached a critical point, and requires a re-assessment and re-focus.

Poole has written on terrorist and insurgent tactics, as well as the counter-insurgency tactics he believes are necessary to defeat them.