Syria

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

A series of images meant to extol the bravery and toughness of fighters against ISIS aren’t what they seem.

The Delta Force raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Sayyaf sounded suspiciously like a Hollywood screenplay.

ISIS has proven itself to be the amongst the most pathetic and despicable terrorist organizations that we have yet to witness.

How many dominos have to fall in the Middle East before a full blown regional war erupts between Saudi Arabia and Iran?

In all fairness, Obama inherited a mess with Bush’s Iraq.  However, his administration’s half-baked strategies since then have resulted in the region sinking into further chaos. When the President completed the US troop withdrawal in 2011, he left over a billion dollars worth of American weapons and equipment in the hands of Iraqi forces–many (also trained […]

The Canadian government recently voted to expand and extend the Canadian Special Operations Regiment’s “training and advising” mission in Iraq as well as the air bombing campaign, which will now extends to the Syrian portion of ISIS-controlled territory. With a first soldier killed as a result of friendly fire which revealed that CSOR has been […]

MERCENARY!  The imagery is painted in our psyche from books, films, and even popular music.  It is the image of the lone wolf merc deep in the Congo with a rusty AK-47, running from the law back home, and desperate to end his down and out streak with a hand full of blood diamonds in […]

Let’s hope that de-radicalization programs in countries like Britain have more to do with flipping former ISIS members into intelligence assets rather than letting them skate by and reintegrate into a society they hate.

Is it time for us to hoist the Jolly Roger and sanction the first American pirates in 200 years?

Kurdish YPG forces receive American AC-130 gunship support for a ground assault.

“The Engineer.” In Afghanistan and a few other Muslim countries, it is a term of respect afforded to men in positions of authority or specialty based on their past education. For anyone with an engineering background, and specifically with an oil background, well, old brother ISIS just might have a job for you. Recent reporting […]