The Military May Now Have a New Tool To Diagnose TBI

In the multiple conflicts on-going since 2001, there has been a dramatic rise in Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) due to the close proximity our soldiers face with explosions, bombs, and weapons. TBI has been called the ‘invisible wound of war’ as many times the soldiers suffering from its effects won’t notice the toll for months, […]

The US Needs a Light, Turboprop, Ground Support Aircraft

In a not-so-amazing turn of events, the Air Force has come to the realization that they need a lighter, more cost efficient, ground support aircraft. The Air Force hasn’t had those types of aircraft in the inventory since Vietnam and has been loath to even keep the invaluable A-10, preferring the sleek, sexier F-15, and […]

Russian Defense Ministry Reports Military Advisor Killed By Sniper in Syria

The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced that a Russian military advisor to the Syrian military has been killed by sniper fire while fighting against militants fighting against the regime of President Assad. The military failed to announce whether the Russian officer was fighting ISIS or one of the other militant groups facing Assad’s forces, […]

The Golden Age of Special Operations, But is the OpTempo Too High?

The United States’ Special Operations Forces are seemingly everywhere and that perception is not far off. In 2016, they were deployed to 138 countries around the globe or about 70 percent of the world. From battlefields in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, to Somalia and West Africa, to advising counter-narcotics units in the Andean Ridge, working […]

The Pentagon may send up to 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan

The Pentagon is considering sending between 3,000 to 5,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to advise Afghan military and police units fighting the Taliban, as well as an unspecified number of special operations forces to fight ISIS and al-Qaida militants along the Pakistani border. A senior Afghan defense official also told the Military Times that NATO was considering  deploying up […]

Watch: Best Selling author and Hurricane CEO Brandon Webb appears on Fox & Friends to discuss changes in counter-terrorism since the death of Osama bin Laden

Brandon Webb, former Navy SEAL, best-selling author, and Hurricane Media CEO, appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss how counter-terrorism has changed since Osama bin Laden was killed six years ago. On May 1, 2011 (20:00 UTC) Navy SEALs assaulted a compound in Pakistan in search of their number one target—Osama bin Laden. The well-documented […]

James Mattis issues statement on Army Rangers killed in Afghanistan

Secretary of Defense James Mattis addressed the media on Friday to honor the lives of two Army Rangers that died during a raid on an ISIS-K compound in Afghanistan on Thursday.  The joint-operation saw participation from forty Army Rangers and as many as fifty Afghan commandos, and initial reports from the Pentagon have suggested that […]

Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces launch offensive near Mosul

The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a largely Shia paramilitary organization under indirect control of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), have launched an offensive against the Islamic State southwest of Mosul, the Long War Journal reports. The group’s presence on the battlefield, consisting of thousands of fighters from over 40 separate and predominately Shia […]

U.S.-led fight on ISIS has killed 352 civilians: Pentagon

At least 352 civilians have been killed in U.S.-led strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria since the operation began in 2014, the U.S. military said in a statement on Sunday. The Combined Joint Task Force, in its monthly assessment of civilian casualties from the U.S. coalition’s operations against the militant group, said […]

Payback is a … Iraqi Military turns the tables on ISIS and starts droning them back

The Iraqi military apparently has gotten fed up with ISIS using hobby drones to drop grenades or IEDs on their forces and have decided to return the favor. Watch ISIS Drones Attacking Iraqi Forces Iraq’s military has turned the tables on the Islamic State’s drone tactics by improvising its own unmanned aircraft to drop grenades and […]