Episode Notes Everyone and everything has an origin story, while I had a sneaking suspicion early on in my modest career in special operations and irregular warfare (IW) that something was fundamentally wrong with the western way of war in these endeavors, it was...
Episode Notes The emerging anti-fragile forces of indigenous irregular warfare forces in concert or independent of near-peer and peer competitors challenging US and western global hegemony are on the march and will in the end succeed. References: Douglas Porch...
Episode notes Here we do a deep dive in US Army Special Forces (SF) and why a complete overhaul is needed to resurrect the original charter to save SF from itself. Over two decades of fighting neo-colonial conflicts throughout the Middle East and Africa has decimated...
Episode Notes Today, I'll do a deep dive into the US Army vanilla SOF organizations and get acquainted with the capabilities and opportunities for US Army special operations. References: Douglas Porch Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War Ann...
Episode Notes A brief introduction to the Department of Defense activities in special operations. I will not be discussing the dark organizations and specifically address the "vanilla" SOF in all the services. References: Douglas Porch Counterinsurgency: Exposing the...
62 Minutes PG-13 Pete invited history professor CJ Killmer to come back on the show and give everyone a real history of the Spartans and the events of the movie 300. CJ destroys myths and gives us an account that we would never see come out of Hollywood. Dangerous...
N.Y. Times: U.S. Sanctions Turn Iran's Oil Industry Into Spy vs Spy. Most Americans have a Hollywood version of the espionage business. A high-tech game of cyber-espionage and secret well-planned operations but in reality it is an age old game using alcohol, sex,...
The new Top Gun movie is coming out and you can be sure the military is all over it. According to Spy Culture, the military believed the original movie inspired the famous Tailhook scandal. Because of this, the Navy withdrew support for Top Gun 2 and thus the 20 year...
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
