Foreign Policy
Do Not Ask For Whom The Bell Tolls….
“What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.” — Theodor W. Adorno This is a very fascinating video with Eric Kline, re: the decline and collapse of eastern Mediterranean civilization between 1220 and 1170 BC. The video […]
SOF Raid Rescues American Woman In Honduras
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced on Monday that an American woman was rescued during a daring military raid in Honduras. Skippy sends. Esper intentionally revealed very little details about the mission, but here is what we know: 1. A young American woman was the “victim of a violent crime” in the Central American nation. 2. She has […]
US-Taliban sign peace deal – US troops to exit Afghanistan in 14 months
IED Detonation US officials and Taliban representatives have signed a final peace deal after months of negotiations in Qatar’s capital to end the United States’s longest war. Today’s agreement, signed in Doha in the presence of leaders from the US, Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey, India, Indonesia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, will pave the way for the US […]
Throwback Thursday – Pelosi’s a hit – with Syrians
This was originally posted by Jonn Lilyea on May 2, 2007 Betsy Pisik writes in the Washington Times about Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s new constituency – in Syria; The California Democrat warmed Syrian hearts with her trip last month to Damascus, an event that people still share with visiting Americans as conversational currency. “Nancy Pelosi is […]
Korean War POWs: The PRC Detainees
Some years ago, I wrote a series of articles regarding POWs and listings of same. In that article, I attempted to document as many us military personnel as I reasonably could who might be considered bona fide prisoners of war – terrorist incidents excepted (I noted some, but that’s a very difficult research project). Links […]
No Surprises Here
General Salami It ain’t over ‘til it’s over. Even dTrump knows that. I did wonder how long it would be until the information in the linked article came up, and Military Times has provided coverage for it. Iran’s Quds-trained militants are responsible for continued lone wolf rocket attacks on Iraq and on US forces. https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2020/01/10/iran-backed-militia-calls-for-lone-wolf-attacks-against-us-troops/ […]
Breaking News – The Russians Are Coming!
Undated photo of Russian AGI Viktor Leonov. A Russian Navy ship is currently operating in an unsafe manner off the eastern coast of the USA, ignoring signals from both commercial shipping and the US Navy. It is offshore from North Carolina. US Navy is keeping an eye on it. The Viktor Leonov has been ignoring […]
What Was Missed?
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The main gate at Naval Air Station Pensacola is seen March 16, 2016, in Pensacola, Fla. (Patrick Nichols/Navy) No, I won’t go into a scold here, but what was missed with the vetting/screening procedure that let that shooter slip through so easily? https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/12/11/pentagon-orders-review-of-vetting-for-international-students-in-us-military-programs/ Somebody missed something, somewhere. If not that, then once he came here […]
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