The latest coup in Burkina Faso is not aimed at creating a showdown with the previous coup, the group’s new military leader said. “The fight we are engaged in is not about power,” said Captain Ibrahim Traore, the new leader. Traore made his comments this weekend while speaking to Voice …
Read More »Army’s First Transgender Officer Indicted For Offering Stolen Fort Bragg Medical Records to Russia
The wife of the U.S. Army’s first transgender officer berated him as a ‘coward’ for having qualms about giving senior officers’ medical files to the Russian government. The couple is accused of trying to deliver the documents as part of an effort to assist Russia in connection with the conflict …
Read More »Putin’s Chef Comes Clean About Founding the Wagner Mercenary Group
Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close associate of President Vladimir Putin, has admitted he founded the private paramilitary Vagner group after years of denying any links to the mercenaries who have been involved in the ongoing war in Ukraine, as well as conflicts in Syria and Africa. In response to a question …
Read More »School Shooting Roils Russia Amid Anti-Mobilization Protests
The death toll from a school shooting in Russia has increased to 15 people, including 11 children, while 24 people were injured, including 22 minors, officials said on Monday. The shootings occurred amid widespread resistance to mobilization orders from Moscow, for men to fight in Ukraine. “By this point, the …
Read More »Ukraine Used ‘3-D Chess’ Techniques Against Russia: Urban Warfare Expert John Spencer
A Ukrainian counter-offensive has forced Russia out of key eastern positions they had taken months to occupy. Reportedly underpinned by Western intelligence, the push also featured wartime methods familiar to British and American forces. Former U.S. Army Major John Spencer, now Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Madison Policy …
Read More »‘Anonymous’ Takes Down Iranian Government Websites
Several Iranian government and state-owned websites have been taken down by Anonymous, the international activist hacker group says, in a move of support for nationwide protests that followed the death of a 22-year-old woman following her arrest by the morality police. The website of the Iranian presidency, the government-affiliated Fars …
Read More »‘No to War!’ More Than 1,300 Protesters Arrested in Russia
More than 1,000 people have been arrested in Russia during protests in several cities against a partial military mobilization announced by President Vladimir Putin on Sep. 21. Demonstrations broke out in Moscow and St. Petersburg and more than 30 other Russian cities after Putin announced the mobilization, OVD-Info said. By …
Read More »Flights Leaving Russia Sell Out as Men Flee Putin’s Conscription Order
Scores of Russian men seemingly bought all the available seats on flights out of the country on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin declared a partial military mobilization for the war in Ukraine. “This is an outrage,” one 27-year old Moscow resident told Soldier of Fortune via a secure messaging system. …
Read More »‘Pyro’ Was Famous for Sprinting Through the O-Club With a Flaming Newspaper Tucked In His Butt; And Then Came the In-Flight Emergency
by Mitch “Taco” Bell The Marine KC-130 was flying over the chilly North Atlantic at 25,000 feet, taking my crew to Keflavik, Iceland. There was a layer of clouds about 10,000 feet below us hiding the cold water and howling winds. This was a milk run from Mildenhall, England, to …
Read More »Russian Pilot Says ‘F*cked Up’ Air Force Should Ground Itself From War in Ukraine
by Susan Katz Keating Leo can’t stop watching the video. The former Russian fighter pilot takes an indoor break from the Reno Air Races – “the smoke is too much; the wildfires” – and offers Soldier of Fortune his theories on why the Russian Air Force is largely missing from …
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