Author: Steve Balestrieri

The Chinese are trying to force-feed the narrative that Washington is unreliable, and is quickly losing its position as a global superpower.

Paul Tibbets recalled, “We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud… boiling up, mushrooming, terrible.”

“To ISIS-K: We are not done with you yet,” President Biden said, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff hints at Taliban cooperation.

In the Battle of Peleliu, after running out of ammunition during the night, the Americans resorted to even throwing empty ammo cans at the enemy.

The M224 60mm mortar is a game-changer. Able to fire a wide variety of rounds, it can even put out fires, as the Special Forces demonstrated.

Guy Gabaldon used his street smarts and knowledge of the Japanese language and culture to perform an extraordinary feat.

“You were either going to die or get shot all to hell,” Billy Waugh said. “Everyone in the outfit was wounded once, twice, three times.”

“U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon airstrike today on a vehicle in Kabul, eliminating an imminent ISIS-K threat,” the U.S. said.

The U.S. has taken out one of the ISIS-K planners believed to be behind the deadly attack on Kabul’s airport.

The founding members of ISIS-K included militants who left the Taliban because they did not feel the Taliban were extreme enough.

“The terrorists, numbering several hundred, had come from Lake Chad and were pushed back,” Niger’s defense ministry said in a statement.

Panjshir Valley still holds against the Taliban. Despite the grim outlook, there might be some hope for the resistance. But don’t expect the West to help.