by Tony Wesolowsky He was one of Bulgaria’s most notorious mafia kingpins, who rose through the ranks in the chaotic 1990s, acquiring along the way an empire of businesses — some legitimate, many not — from fruit markets, parking lots, to a stake in a business at a key border …
Read More »Mullahs Tell Iranians to Stop Celebrating Death of Raisi, ‘The Butcher of Tehran’
Raisi was aboard a helicopter that crashed in Iran’s mountainous northwest on its way back from the border with Azerbaijan. The ruling mullahs in Tehran have demanded that people in Iran stop behaving gleefully over the death of President Ebrahim Raisi. Raisi and other senior officials when their helicopter crashed …
Read More »New B-21 Stealth Bomber Appears in Flight: Air Force Shows Off the ‘Raider’
The new B-21 Raider stealth bomber continues its progress toward becoming the backbone of the United States’ bomber fleet. New images of the sixth-generation aircraft were released after a test flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Only last autumn, the United States Air Force (USAF) confirmed that the first …
Read More »WATCH: Coast Guard Rescues Leo the Dog
Call it a pawsome recovery. A dog named Leo fell from a 300-foot cliff in Oregon earlier this year. It didn’t look good for Leo, since he was injured, and the tide was rising. A rescue crew from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Astoria quickly responded and arrived on scene, …
Read More »WATCH: A-10 Opens Fire Over Nellis AFB
Watch a couple A-10 Thunderbolts do their thing in the skies over Nellis AFB, Nevada. Warthogs in action. Thank you, Staff Sgt. Julian Kemper, for making this vid.
Read More »Murder Attempt on Slovakia’s Prime Minister Fico: First Lessons
A JFK-style hit, where a sniper takes aim from afar, is not the only type of assassination that threatens a political leader’s life. ANALYSIS by Susan Katz Keating Important first lessons emerge from today’s assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. Grainy footage from the attack seems to show that …
Read More »WATCH: How to Destroy a Decommissioned Ship
During live fire exercises off the coast of Luzon, the armed forces of the U.S., Philippines, and Australia teamed up to strike and destroy a decommissioned ship. Watch the process from start to finish.
Read More »In Eagle Pass, Soldiers Toast the Men Who Fought at Salerno in World War II
“Tell people what we did in World War II,” one soldier said. “Tell them about Salerno.” by Susan Katz Keating EAGLE PASS, TX – In a parking lot near the U.S. southern border, members of the Texas National Guard encountered our team from Soldier of Fortune. The “T-Patchers” just had …
Read More »Wagner Group in the Field: Are These Guys for Real?
Wagner Group has been getting increased attention in the wake of a recent article that says they are chasing the depleted warlord Joseph Kony in Africa. I don’t buy that story, and I’m not convinced re this new vid. COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating A video on a Russian secure …
Read More »‘Send Me’: A Fitting Love Letter to Shannon Kent, Elite Warfighter Killed by Suicide Bomber
BOOK REVIEW by Susan Katz Keating When Marty Skovlund Jr. told me a while back that he was working on a book about Navy cryptology tech Shannon Kent, I made a note to myself to look for the book when it was published. Within the special operations community, Shannon’s name …
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