Why do so many Kurds from so many different walks of life think that ISIS is an American construction?

Kurdistan’s Counterterrorism Group (CTG) operators are nearly indistinguishable from a Western special operations unit.

Kids washing up on Turkish shores are just the latest form of Western guilt.  The kids have been dying in droves for over three years.

China is taking America for a ride, and we are completely in denial about it.  ISIS is amateur hour compared to what we face in East Asia.

While the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were splashed across the front pages of newspapers, early on in the War on Terror a more clandestine type of war was being waged in Africa by the CIA and JSOC, a war that included blended teams from SEAL Team Six, Delta Force, Task Force Orange, and the […]

Reports are coming out revealing that the Pentagon may have cooked the books when it comes to the number of airstrikes undertaken against ISIS.  If someone in CENTCOM did that they have a pair of brass ones, but it is more likely that it was done under pressure from White House staffers.

Ever submit paperwork to Veteran’s Affairs never to be heard of again.  Now we know why…

Is the United States being taken to the mats over and over again in a foreign policy which is fundamentally broken?

Much is being made of the two women who will graduate Ranger School this week.  One show boater and spot lighter who will be present for the graduation is President Obama himself, never one to let a good PR event go to waste no doubt.  Worse, he will certainly insist on giving a groan worthy […]

There was a much consternation when planning Neptune Spear about whether or not the stealth Black Hawks, untested in combat, were suitable for the mission.

Billions and billions of dollars have been dumped into Afghanistan in nearly 15 years of war, with very little to show for it.  Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires in more ways then one.

Perhaps it is wrong to see the recent Iran deal as a zero sum game in which one side bested the other, but one can still wonder what the post-career memoirs will look like from across both sides of the table…