NATO’s Nordic members – Finland, Sweden, and Norway – are hosting massive war games across the three nations. Finland and Sweden are the newest members of the alliance and will each contribute over 4,000 soldiers to the drills. The war games, dubbed Nordic Response...
Episode Notes My Storming America Series covers the gamut of what the spontaneous attack in the US will look like when terror cells launch a simultaneous attack on the US homeland. I cover it in Episodes 37, 41-43 and 49-50 of my Chasing Ghosts podcast. The hybrid and...
We live in an nth-best society. It's neither fully libertarian (though libertarians disagree over exactly what that would mean) nor totalitarian like the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Maoist China, or North Korea. It's somewhere in between, closer to...
Washington has asked Tel Aviv to stop attacking the Gazan police force attempting to escort aid deliveries in the Strip The White House has asked the Israeli government to end attacks on police in Gaza. Targeting the civil police force has caused more chaos in the...
The head of USAID said on Monday that only around 85 aid trucks were able to enter Gaza each day, around 15% of the prewar number. The White House has touted that it has leveraged US influence to get Israel to provide more aid to the Strip. However, Tel Aviv is...
GEN McChrystal was a martial disaster. What wrong looks like… This is what happens when your architects fall in love with their processes so much they forget about the objective. Military students should really study why graduate-level white papers, PowerPoint slides,...
There is a surge among the liberal democracies towards a nativist conservatism. The United States experienced the lie of Donald Trump’s MAGA and the misplaced promise of an America First, once a dirty word, now a salvation for not only the war wracked planet but the...
Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, has resigned in protest over the Iran war, becoming the first senior official to break ranks. In his resignation, Kent stated bluntly that Iran posed no “imminent threat” to the United States — directly...
One of four SLBMs are operational. One of two carriers is operational. Two of seven destroyers are operational. On and on. The Argentinians need to make a deal with Iran for oil, to keep the British busy in the Maldives; then they'll finally have the islands. Luxury...
2 F-35 stealth fighters hit 4 F-15 Strike Eagles lost 7 KC-135 Stratotankers damaged (one lost) All of those aircraft are a big maybe; fratricide, friendly fire, we don’t know yet. To be fair, let’s suppose not a single aircraft suffered Iranian fire but 11 Reapers...