Name Games: Marine Asexual Combat Titles: Why it’s important.
There is an ongoing review in the Marine Corps to change titles to be non-gender specific. Restated differently, that would be ”gender inclusive” titles. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus in a…
Cybercrime, Critics and Paradoxes. A Little Something to Put in Your Brainbox
“The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”- G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery The movie Snowden, by Oliver Stone, came to theatres this…
Warning to American Sports Fans
WARNING TO AMERICAN SPORTS FANS Densely assembled groups of potential victims, easy physical access to the facility, and a large number of news-hungry journalists and photographers who will certainly broadcast…
A Warning From Brussels
One month after a multi-bomb attack at the Brussels Airport and a metro station near EU headquarters what do we know? The images of the Brussels attacks are familiar by…
Army Chief Wants to Select Next Pistol, Sounds Good But…
There’s been a rash of articles about Gen Mark Milley wanting authority to select the Army’s next pistol. This isn’t new. Gen Milley has been broaching the issue since October…
The OV10 Light CAS Aircraft Temporarily Reappears
Special Operations Command recently experimented using two OV10 light observation/utility aircraft in the close air support role in combat against ISIS. This incident has made a small splash in various…
Russians Provide Much Needed Adult Supervision in Middle East
A Kuwait newspaper has reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended the transfer of S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Iran due to the Iranians’ violation of an earlier pledge not to…
Can You Rely on Police to Protect Your Family and You from Violence or Robbery? Well, Maybe. Eventually.
In 2015 my hometown police responded to high-priority calls, involving immediate threat to life, in about seven minutes, on average. That was 2.9 percent slower than 2014. According to a…
How Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) has Transformed
On March 1, 2016 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released 113 items of declassified material obtained during the raid that subsequently killed Usama Bin Laden. The declassified…
Indestructible Armor: Operation Desert Sand
The crazy flight from Amman, Jordan, to Baghdad, Iraq, packed two Blackwater USA pilots and seven security contractors into one of the company’s twin-engine CASA C212 airplanes which looked a…