Can a nation be both a friend and a foe to the United States at the same time? Today we have a situation in which Iran is a de facto ally of ours in the fight against ISIS, but also a country we’re actively trying to subvert in places like Yemen. While arrangements like this leave […]

According to BAS News, the highest ranking surviving member of Iraq’s Baath party is reported to have been injured by an American airstrike in Sinjar, Iraq. Al-Douri (seen in the lead picture with Saddam Hussein) was the King of Clubs on America’s deck of 52 most wanted personalities during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Reports […]

Has anyone ever stopped to actually ask what it is that America wants to accomplish with our foreign policy? What are our long-term goals? What is our strategy to achieve those goals? Instead, our diplomatic, intelligence, and military forces are constantly in ‘react mode’ due to a lack of guidance from our legislative and executive […]

In 2003, the CIA abducted Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr off the streets of Milan. He was suspected of recruiting foreign jihadist fighters and then facilitating their way to Iraq. With Hassan shipped off to Egypt for interrogation, the operation at first appeared to be a success. What happened over the following months and years demonstrated how technology may be the […]

Will diplomacy succeed where coercion failed, or will it all literally blow up in our face?

We thought readers might appreciate this gem out of our archives.  Prior to being the founder of the Army’s counter-terrorism unit, Delta Force, Colonel Beckwith was a officer in Project Delta (unrelated to the unit he later founded) in Vietnam.                

The unfortunate result of a State Department and Department of Defense 1208 program? As Jim West says, never underestimate the bad guys…

Washington D.C. politics just about has our fun meter pegged.

My heart stopped. Less than 30 feet from me, two Talibans carrying Kalashnikovs were crawling toward our base. They clearly couldn’t make out what they were seeing, squinting in the morning sun…

Just like there weren’t any Russian soldiers in North Vietnam…

While the world remains fixated on the “ISIS crisis” in the Middle East, a small group of South African soldiers-for-hire are once again proving what it takes to fight, and win, against terrorists and insurgents. Teamed up with Nigerian military forces, a private military company named Pilgrims Africa Ltd. is employing South African Special Forces veterans […]

The Pentagon recently announced their plans to launch a joint US/Iraqi military operation to retake Mosul in April.  Then they abruptly cancelled it, because things just aren’t quite ready.  It doesn’t get much more embarrassing than that.