American citizens deserve to know the full details when our armed forces are sent into action. It would be nice to get those details from our own Department of Defense. COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating Outdated, misleading photos and a low p.r. footprint: such is the Pentagon’s messaging about Thursday …
Read More »These Are the Weapons the US and UK Used Against Houthi Targets
When U.S. and U.K. hit Houthi militia targets in Yemen on Jan. 11, the two Western militaries used powerful weapons in their respective arsenals. These included launches from air and from sea. Here are the types of munitions that were used. US: Hornets, HARMs, and Tomahawks The US conducted air strikes …
Read More »Lloyd Austin’s ‘Hospitalgate’: Who Will Take the Fall Over Pentagon Chief’s Secret Absence?
“Austin created a crisis where none existed,” one official said. “This threw the White House and the Pentagon into chaos, and it was completely unnecessary. He needs to turn in his resignation.” COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating Official Washington, D.C. is making bets on who will take the fall over Defense …
Read More »Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin Was MIA for 5 Days; How Come No One Noticed?
When the Secretary of Defense was off work and in an intensive care unit over the course of four days, no one at the Pentagon nor in Washington even knew he was gone. COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating The U.S. security world is rightly astounded and outraged that Defense Secretary …
Read More »To Evade War in Ukraine, More Russian Soldiers Are Deserting
by Timofei Rozhanskiy As fighting raged in an around Bakhmut amid Russia’s unrelenting assault earlier this year turning the eastern Ukrainian city to rubble, a Russian conscript began plotting how he would desert shortly after being deployed there. Anton (not his real name) said he was given a two-week leave in …
Read More »Nine Months of Hell in Mariupol: How This Real-Life Rambo Survived, Resisted, and Escaped Captivity
By John Spencer As I sat in a clean, elegant café in downtown Kyiv it was nearly impossible for me to comprehend the story I was being told. My interviewee was a quiet, humble former active-duty Ukrainian Marine from Mariupol named Gennadiy (or Gena for short). But while Gena was …
Read More »Russia Hits Kyiv With Missile Barrage, Killing at Least 5
“Places we thought were safe, are not safe,” one resident told Soldier of Fortune. Russia launched extensive missiles attacks that killed at least five people and wounded dozens more in Kyiv and Kharkiv, officials in Ukraine said on Tuesday. The barrage was unlike previous attacks, and hit areas of Kyiv …
Read More »Texas Recaptures Island From Cartel Smugglers
Cartels have used Fronton Island to smuggle cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, weapons, and people. by Todd Bensman NEAR FRONTON, TX— Dawn was breaking on an October Monday as a Texas Rangers leader spoke to an armed gathering of police and military personnel. He seemed like a World War II military commander, …
Read More »Putin and the Strip Club: Amid Outcry From Kremlin Over ‘Almost Naked’ Celeb Party, Critics Ask, ‘What About Vlad?’
The Moscow party included one man who was jailed for wearing only a strategically placed sock. But Putin attended a St. Petersburg club where performers wore nothing. A Russian investigative group has cried foul against the Kremlin for denouncing an “Almost Naked” 2023 Christmas party at a Moscow nightclub, saying …
Read More »Iran Sends Destroyer Into Red Sea, Amid Attacks on Shipping
Iran has sent a warship into the Red Sea, Iranian state media reported on January 1. The 51-year-old destroyer Alborz entered the Red Sea through the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait, according to the Tasnim news agency. The news group is tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The ship …
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