RANSOMWARE HAS BEEN an Internet scourge for more than a decade, but only recently has it made mainstream media headlines. That’s primarily due to a new trend in ransomware attacks: the targeting of hospitals and other healthcare facilities. The malware works by locking your computer to prevent you from accessing data until you pay a…
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Espionage Files: WW2 British General Bernard Law Montgomery was Best Man at Philby’s Wedding
Things I didn’t know: When St. John Philby got married in India in 1910, his best man was Bernard Law Montgomery. The Philby marriage of course produced H.A.R. “Kim” Philby, the greatest traitor of the 20th century. From the same book, Anthony Cave Brown’s biography of Sir Stewart Menzies, I learned the old World War II headquarters…
World War Two History: U.S. Tank Destroyer Tactics in WW2
Rules Of Innovation (10): Don’t Build Your Doctrine On Incorrect Lessons Drawn From Poorly Researched And Designed Exercises That’s the cautionary lesson of the tank destroyer, which was meant to be a relatively inexpensive, light, mobile weapon to counter German tanks. It became one of the most famous failed innovations in U.S. military history. In exercises the…
War Movies Worth A Damn: ‘Only The Dead Have Seen The End of War’ is a TOUGH Watch
Some Vets may have mixed emotions about this documentary. I will war you, some parts are NOT easy to watch, but unlike most people, I could care less about the jihadi Muslim POS that die in this documentary. What I care about is watching America’s finest do their jobs like Ssgt. David Bellavia’s amazing story in the Battle…
Cold War Files: JFK’s Plan to Invade Cuba with Airborne and Marines
Over the weekend I was looking through some handwritten notes in the papers of Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, placed on-line by the National Defense University. The document is undated and unsigned. The NDU catalog lists it as created by Lemnitzer, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff early in the JFK era, until Kennedy…
The Mandalorian Ballistic Armor – From Heckler & Koch And AR500
Yes, it’s real. Yes, it’s made of real ballistic material. It’s officially called the Galtac Project. Starwars and Bobba Fett fanboys just got intergalactic wood. An Artist by the… Source: The Mandalorian Ballistic Armor – From Heckler & Koch And AR500
World War Two History: Associated Press Willingly Cooperated With the Nazis, New Report Shows
News agency and Third Reich said to have made mutually beneficial deal, with AP providing countless photos for Nazi propaganda; AP denies collaboration The Associated Press news agency willingly cooperated with Nazi Germany, submitting to the regime’s restrictive rulings on the freedom of the press and providing it with images from its photo archives to…
Espionage Files: Decorated SS Commander was a Mossad Assassin
A notorious lieutenant colonel in the Waffen SS, who served in Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguard unit, worked as a hitman for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad after World War II, it has been revealed. Austrian-born Otto Skorzeny became known as the most ruthless special-forces commander in the Third Reich. Having joined the Austrian branch…
Crusader Corner: STOP Making “Excuses” for Terrorist
The facts show is that all these “excuses” for terrorism are incorrect. Israel is not, for instance, carrying out the “war crimes,” “apartheid” or “genocide,” which propagandists have persuaded Europeans that Israel is engaged in. Israel is fighting an enemy that breaks every rule of armed conflict, and Israel responds in a manner so…
Anti-Campus Carry Activist Have Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
Anti-campus carry activists at the University of Texas at Austin have created a self-fulfilling prophecy—they’ve spent so much time and energy claiming that campus carry is going to cause real problems for the university that their warnings are scaring off top talent, causing a real problem for the university. Both the Los Angeles Times and…