A good friend frequently sends me these, and although the language is a bit over the top at times, it sure makes for entertaining reading. I mean even if it is a half-baked propaganda stunt, a dude that is named “The Angel of Death” and looks like and I quote: ” A combination of Kratos…
Category: Counter-Insurgency
Learning from Terrorist Tactics: Becoming Anonymous
In a recent article in Jihad Watch Robert Spencer talks about how the 24 year old jihadist who committed the Tunisian Resort Massacre last week where 39 people were killed and at least 39 others were wounded, managed, before the attack, to go completely un-noticed by the public. As Spencer points out, this is clearly due…
De-Constructing Hybrid Warfare
Hybrid war- does it even exist? (Original Article in NATO Review) The recent Russian intervention in Ukraine has generated much debate about the use and effectiveness of hybrid warfare, a type of warfare widely understood to blend conventional/unconventional, regular/irregular, and information and cyber warfare. An analyst looks at code in the malware lab of a…
Netflix Pix: Point and Shoot
For those of you out there that don’t mind homemade movies, you might like this quirky, offbeat documentary of Matthew Van Dyke, an American College Graduate who suffers with OCD who sets out to see the world and really experience life first hand. (WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!) He buys a Video Camera, a Motorcycle and a…
The Missed Counter-Insurgency Lessons in Lone Survivor (Film)
(Normally, we start the year with our “Most Intriguing Event of the Year”. But since Lone Survivor hit theaters across the country on January 10th, we’re devoting this week to that topic. To read all of our Lone Survivor posts, please click here. The most important post is “A List of the Mistakes and Differences…