Russian forces abandoned a wounded Korean soldier during combat in Kursk, and then tried to prevent Ukrainian troops who captured the man from taking him off the battlefield, according to a Ukrainian soldier involved in the mission. The Ukrainian soldier said the Russian forces launched a barrage of artillery fire …
Read More »WATCH: When Night Stalkers Come to Call
Night Stalkers put their machines front and center in yet another badass vid from the 160th SOAR. Watch how they do it.
Read More »Russia’s New Fibre-Optic Drones Evade Jamming in Ukraine
Russia is using a new drone to try to evade Ukrainian jamming equipment. Rather than being controlled wirelessly, the new drone use miles of fibre-optic cable. The cables unravel as drones fly toward a target. First-person view (FPV) drones are now the biggest killer on the battlefield, and the use …
Read More »As Drones Reshape the War in Ukraine, Older Tactics Remain in Use on the Battlefield
by A.R. Fomenko “There is no day off from war.” VIENNA BUREAU – As drones are making headway for both sides of the war in Ukraine, older style fighting has not left the battlefield. Both Russian and Ukrainian armed forces make this clear especially on video, showing that even when …
Read More »‘Close and Destroy’ by Tom Marshall: A Thrilling Read
BOOK REVIEW by Ric Prado As an avid reader and now a New York Times Bestselling author of Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior, I have learned to truly enjoy historical fiction. These are most often stories based on real life experiences, composed to both instruct and …
Read More »Theories About Matt Livelsberger: Consume the News With Detached Analysis
A statement does not equal truth. Even when the person who makes the statement then dies in a spectacular fashion. COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating Much chatter has been circulating about Friday’s episode of The Shawn Ryan Show, featuring material allegedly written by suspected Cybertruck bomber Matt Livelsberger. A guest on …
Read More »Firefighters Enter the Inferno: ‘Sometimes You See Bad Things’
by Martin Kufus An excerpt from Plow the Dirt but Watch the Sky, by Martin Kufus Anyone who serves as a volunteer firefighter eventually will confront bad things, perhaps receiving a heartfelt “Thank you” later in compensation. This is what you sign up for and train for on a volunteer …
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 »‘Enemy in the wire!’ The Battle for Combat Outpost Keating
by Elizabeth M. Collins “Enemy in the wire! Enemy in the wire!” The news, the stuff of nightmares, spread through Red and Blue platoons in seconds. “Enemy in the wire.” Many soldiers didn’t believe it at first. It was a phrase they never expected to hear, one they dreaded. It …
Read More »Drag Marks and a Missing Anchor: Did the ‘Eagle S’ Tanker Disrupt Cables in Baltic Sea?
Its anchor is missing, and drag marks have been found on the ocean floor where undersea cables were damaged in the Baltic Sea – developments that have kept the focus on the Eagle S oil tanker in the wake of a sabotage investigation in Finland. Finnish authorities boarded the Eagle …
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