Op-Ed: The OSCE Monitoring Mission- Ukraine

By now if you have been following the Ukrainian conflict, you will have seen or noticed and organization that calls themselves the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) the guys driving around eastern Ukraine in white Toyota Landcruisers. Below is a mission statement from their website. Who we are The OSCE has a comprehensive approach to security that […]

Could this baby Chinook be the future of evacuating casualties?

The U.S. Army is always on the hunt for new and more efficient ways of conducting combat operations, and like it or not, casualties are a nearly unavoidable aspect of war.  Advancements that could buy a severely wounded soldier minutes, or even seconds, could mean the difference between saving a life and losing one – […]

Link seen between Russia and Libyan commander Haftar: U.S. general

The head of U.S. forces in Africa told reporters on Friday there was an “undeniable” link between Russia and powerful Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar, underscoring U.S. concerns about Moscow’s deepening role in Libya. Earlier this month Reuters reported that Russia appeared to have deployed special forces to an air base in western Egypt near the […]

Bring on the warbots

In May 1940, the Allied and German Armies squared off in what was expected to be an extended campaign for the conquest of France. Six weeks later, the victorious German Army marched down the Champs-Elysees in Paris. How was it that the Germans, with fewer tanks, fewer trucks, fewer troops, less artillery and access to […]

Air Force Tests Using Drones for Aircraft Post Flight Inspection

Drones seems to be everywhere and doing everything lately and that is no exception with the US Air Force. Earlier this month the Air Force’s 412th Test Wing’s Emerging Technologies Combined Test Force flew a quadcopter around and over a C-17 Globemaster as part of a post flight inspection. The quadcopter was equipped with a camera and […]

Drones Flying Over US Air Force and Navy Nuclear Facilities

While the military is not releasing much in the way of details the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, General John E. Hyten told Congress that ‘unauthorized intrusions’ were carried out by drone aircraft over Air Force and Navy nuclear facilities. Watch: Trained eagle snatches a drone in mid flight “Of recent concern have been the […]

End of an era: The Air Force sends the Predator out to pasture

Twenty-one years ago, the skies over combat zones were a very different place.  Aircraft of all sorts screamed across the sky just as they do today, but just about every one of them had a person at the helm – controlling the craft from within and using a radio to communicate to ground elements and […]

How Lady Gaga’s halftime show gave us a glimpse of the future of warfare

This year’s Super Bowl was full of historic moments. Tom Brady securing his fifth Super Bowl ring, a Super Bowl going into overtime, and the Falcons choosing not to be any good at football anymore in the second half were all memorable, but for my money, it was the halftime show that we should really […]

ISIS drones? Really?

We are not talking about the US attacking ISIS fighters with drones. ISIS now claims they have their own weaponized drones that are capable of attacking their enemies. They even claim they have already attacked Iraqi troops with their drones by dropping IED’s on them. ISIS recently has been bragging on social media that they […]

B-2 Bombers Blast ISIS Training Camps in Libya

A pair of B-2 Stealth Bombers unleashed over 100 bombs on two ISIS training camps in Libya. In what is probably the last combat strike on ISIS by the Obama regime the attacks reportedly killed close to 100 terrorist fighters. The B-2 is rarely used for these types of combat missions as they could have […]