Operation Gothic Serpent 3 October 1993 Shughart: “Gordy’s gone man. I’ll be outside.” There is no doubt Mogidishu, Somalia was a bad conflict (American has not been involved in a good one since 1871) but the valor and sprezzatura of Gordon and Shughart is off the charts. Heroes happen because events take a bad and unpredictable turn. Medal of Honor winners step into the breach when the shit hits the fan. Remember. Chasing Ghosts Episode 022 "Review and Discussion: Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On"" https://rss.com/podcasts/cgp/1065857/

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The USAF MQ-9A Reaper fleet is down to about 135 airframes — under half the 351 counted in FY2022 — and the production line is shut, Army Recognition reported from a 23 September CRS study. GA-ASI told CRS a restart would take two to three years. FY27 asks for no new Air Force Reapers; the Navy wants five for the Marines. The service still claims 56 combat lines. Epic Fury losses were not published, of course. GEN Ken Wilsbach called the Reaper the operation’s MVP. Successor plan is Massed Modular Aircraft at ~$10 million versus $30–50 million for a Reaper, prototypes from FY28, 500 jets by...

In 1942, Franklin Roosevelt wrote Winston Churchill a letter with one of the most arrogant lines of the entire war: "I think I can personally handle Stalin better than either your Foreign Office or my State Department." He meant it. And three years later at Yalta, the world paid for it. Roosevelt's whole strategy toward Stalin was to make him like him. His former ambassador to Moscow later said FDR told him that if he gave Stalin everything he could and asked for nothing back, Stalin would respond in kind and wouldn't try to annex anything. He was talking about a man who had just starved...

After years of fighting with the sclerotic and loathsome UK Ministry of Defense to clear his manuscript for publication, the hero of the 2019 Nairobi terrorist attack has finally been able to get his book out. This is a pristine example of military power in a single man being used to achieve a singular good. During the 2019 DusitD2 hotel complex terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya, former Special Air Service (SAS) operator Christian Craighead helped rescue and evacuate hundreds of people with estimates generally ranging from more than 100 directly aided up to hundreds or over 700 people saved...

Why don’t the US communist fan-girls and drones advocate for reading these tomes? Hoxha should make the Mamdanis and other Marxoid dullards swoon with infatuation. Enver Hoxha’s multi-volume published works—comprising his Selected Works, memoirs, reports, and political diaries issued by the 8 Nëntori Publishing House in Tirana during and after his rule—are propagandistic primary sources that function as historical artifacts of Albania's Stalinist isolation rather than objective accounts. Collected Works (Vepra): 70 volumes in Albanian. Publication began in 1968 and continued into the early...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) spends one third of one percent of the DoW budget on missile defense of the homeland. One third of one percent. Approx ten billion dollars. On defense. The grunt math of defending against incoming munitions will always require more missiles sent aloft against single incoming munitions. The Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) has less than fifty interceptors in Alaska and the west coast and maintains no layered missile defense of the homeland. The salvo competition is relentless and ruthless. A gentle reminder: ICBMs and IRBMs have been hypersonic on...