Are name changes in the works for other military installations that were renamed under the Biden administration? Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Monday night signed a memorandum renaming Fort Liberty in North Carolina to Fort Roland L. Bragg. The storied North Carolina post was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023, during an …
Read More »WATCH: Marines Deploy Concertina Wire Along US Southern Border
Security operations along the U.S. southern border include setting up new physical barriers to curtail illegal border crossings. Here is a time lapse of setting up concertina wire near San Ysidro, California. These Marines with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, worked along the southern border wall on Feb. …
Read More »The Dangers of Being a Cartel Prison Snitch: ‘There’s Nothing Worse Than a Rat’
by Ivan / Borderland Beat There are only two inmates that everyone wants to kill: protected witnesses and child rapists, reveals a U.S. Marshal interviewed by the author. The list seems endless. All of them high-level members of the Sinaloa Cartel, who after having every imaginable luxury and in almost …
Read More »Moscow Denounces CIA ‘Cranberry Movies,’ Creates Video to Recruit American Spies
COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating The SVR did not respond to a request to explain what a cranberry movie is. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has taken a swipe at the Central Intelligence Agency’s spy recruitment videos, and has created its own counter-video, asking “true American patriots” to reach out and touch …
Read More »‘Troops of the Hunter Class’: Creating Britain’s Legendary Commando Force
Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill in World War II wanted “specially trained troops of the hunter class, who can develop a reign of terror down these coasts [of occupied Europe], first of all on the butcher and bolt policy… leaving a trail of German corpses behind them.” This translated into …
Read More »WATCH: High-Threat Prisoners Arrive at GTMO
The Pentagon released video of the first flight of high-threat illegal aliens as they arrive at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This group of prisoners had been held inside the United States. They arrived at “GTMO” on February 4. The Pentagon did not identify the prisoners, nor say where they …
Read More »Into the Taliban Stronghold: Marines in Now Zad, Afghanistan
A look back at operations in Now Zad, Afghanistan. No jokes, no talking, just business. The stern-faced Marines in the six-wheeled armored vehicle, known as the “Cougar,” listened intently to the chatter over the radio. “The Afghan army just got their first kill in combat,” said a Marine on the …
Read More »The KGB Manual on How to Spot a Foreign Spy: Vodka Martinis, Impeccable Manners, and Eavesdropping
by Nikolay Shevchenko Back in the USSR, the KGB wrote a manual describing what a foreign spy would look like. Some of the characteristics were intriguing… In the midst of the Cold War, security services on both sides of the Iron Curtain had to stay vigilant and look out for …
Read More »Death of a Warlord: One More Murder in Moscow
by A.R. Fomenko “Arms smuggling is up, retribution is on the agenda, and people are jockeying for power in a presumed post-war environment:” Soldier of Fortune publisher Susan Katz Keating. VIENNA BUREAU – Who killed the Armenian warlord in Moscow, and why? Officials in Russia reported on Monday that Armen Sarkisyan, who …
Read More »The Deadly Battle of Takur Ghar in Afghanistan
The fight became a cauldron that forged both heroism and tragedy, and produced the first-ever video recording of actions that resulted in the posthumous Medal of Honor for one participant, Air Force Special Tactics Combat Controller John Chapman. In March 2002 a joint military operation was mounted to surround and …
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