Rest in peace to the fallen.  This last couple of weeks has been a bad one for our industry and my heart goes out to the friends and family of the dead.  These deaths are also a reminder of the kind of sacrifice this industry is making in this war.
   As for Iraq, I […]

     This is some fascinating history.  I will let the articles and stories below speak for themselves. But basically what we have here is a former special operations hero Col. Bull Simons and CEO Ross Perot, conducting a private rescue operation of Perot’s employees trapped in Iran back in 1978. And they got them […]

   I love papers like this, because these are the kind of deals that ruffle the feathers of Tankers and Armor fans, as well as status quo military thinkers. Thanks to Small Wars Journal for publishing it. Basically, William has presented some excellent low cost hybrid warfare concepts that should be of great interest to the […]

    I am sure I am missing someone, because this war has all sorts of players getting involved.  What I have done below, is posted all the current events in Yemen that everyone should key in on, and I also tried to bring in some industry stuff as well.
   The things the caught my attention […]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who has written about the efficacy of samizdat in undermining the Soviet Union, sees a similar dynamic at work here. “The freedom of communication and the nature of it,” he has said, “is a huge strategic asset for the United States.” 
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    These three stories are all inter-related and based on this […]

    This is an important article in that it identifies a crucial element of any PMC 2.0 type strategy.  To insure that the opposition of your enemy, has the means to protest your enemy online.  To actually insure that there are proxy servers available to the masses, and if not, to provide it. This is […]

   I posted the main story last for a reason. This new nuclear site is a game changer in my opinion. It only accelerates and agitates the process, and time is not on our side here.
    And then there was the speech. Netanyahu’s speech at the UN was the exact opposite of Gaddafy’s, meaning it […]

   This latest conflict in Israel has highlighted an interesting weapon.  Enter the 122 mm Grad Missile, or the 9K132 Grad-P rocket.  Why is this different from the Kassam rockets and other homemade stuff?  The range and lethality.  It can go 20 plus kilometers and it is a factory made rocket.  That means more Israeli […]

US renews appeal to Iran on missing American
November 21, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has renewed an appeal to Iran for information about a former FBI agent, Floridian Robert Levinson, who went missing in Iranian territory 20 months ago.
Spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday that Iran has not responded to a recent request through Swiss […]