Israeli officials have asked their American counterparts for additional Apache attack helicopters. The White House has not given Tel Aviv a response, leading Israel to step up pressure on the US. The Israeli Defense Forces is heavily using the Apaches across multiple...
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Over 500 Israeli Soldiers Killed Since October 7
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 28, 2023 | News
The death toll for Israeli soldiers continues to grow. Nearly 400 members of the Israeli security forces were killed on October 7. Since the Israeli Defense Forces invaded Gaza, at least over 150 soldiers have been killed. After several revisions, Tel Aviv now says...
No Functional Hospitals Remain in North Gaza
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 21, 2023 | News
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that all hospitals in northern Gaza are no longer functional. Only nine of the 36 hospitals in Gaza before October 7 are operational at any level. The WHO assessment was made after UN teams assessed the Al Ahli Arab Hospital...
As Gaza Death Toll Crosses 20,000, Aid Group Warns True Number Is Higher
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 21, 2023 | News
After 10 weeks of Israeli military operations in Gaza, authorities have counted 20,000 dead Palestinians. An overwhelming number of the dead are innocent civilians with no ties to Hamas. An aid group warns the actual death toll is probably greater since thousands of...
Ep 031 “US Military Special Operations Forces Can’t Do UW (Part One)”
by Bill Buppert | Dec 18, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes In this episode, I will be a heretic to the current military establishment in America and the west. They can't do unconventional warfare and I must be very specific in the conditional problem I propose: the western military has no capability to conduct...
Gaza Health Care System ‘On Its Knees’ as Experts Warn Disease Will Spread
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 13, 2023 | News
International humanitarian agencies are warning that Gaza’s health care system is near collapse as Israeli military operations have disabled most of the besieged enclave’s hospitals. The devastation of Gaza is causing diseases to spread. Israeli experts warn the...
BBC: Israeli Bombing Damaged 100,000 Buildings in Gaza
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 30, 2023 | News
An extensive review of images of Gaza after seven weeks of Israeli bombing shows extensive damage to the infrastructure within the Strip. According to a human rights monitoring group, Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tonnes of explosives on Gaza. Satellite and...
NATO Chief Puts Hypocrisy on Full Display
by Ted Snider | Nov 29, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg put NATO’s hypocrisy on display while talking to reporters ahead of the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on November 28. Asked by a reporter about American and European struggles to continue providing Ukraine with...
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USS Liberty Incident Rises from the Ash Heap of Inconvenient History
Medal of Honor citation for Commander William L. McGonagle, USN, Commanding Officer, USS Liberty (AGTR-5) Thanks to Candace Owens for lifting this incident from the dead. One receives the Medal of Honor for engaging in a fight in enemy action. "For conspicuous...
Natural Economic Law Can’t Be Repealed
If the government restricts supply and subsidizes demand, out-of-control prices, resource shortages, and unpleasant ad hoc coping restrictions will follow. That is the natural (economic) law. The government cannot repeal it. But it can stop its attempt to plan.
Dumpsters Afloat: The Zumwalt Chronicles Continues
The weapons system removed from the Zumwalt They were going to build 30 and ended up building three of these dysfunctional monstrosities. Commissioned in 2016, it has only taken them eight years to retrofit the weapons system. The Navy's priorities have changed since...
Lawrence Premieres in London
On this day, 62 years ago, David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) premiered in London, UK. My favorite movie of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULsFcSpaVO0
The Health-Care Nirvana Fallacy
Someone explain how coercive centralized bureaucratic control of medical decision-making and the purse can beat the decentralized free market with its undistorted price system. The government has many things besides medical care it wants to spend tax money on, and...
DEI Kills: Boeing Bumbling on Parade Part CXXVII
Editor's Note: Just returned from business travel so my blogging frequency should bump up again. Boeing continues o provide legions of future business historians the fodder for hundreds of books and cautionary tales on how engineering can fall of a cliff once...
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