For six months, starting in the fall of 2014, I investigated a shadowy online Russian propaganda operation called the Internet Research Agency. The agency has been widely reported in Russian media to be the brainchild of Evgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch and ally of Vladimir Putin. At the time, it employed hundreds of Russians in a…
Category: Current Events
Military News: USMC Recruiting Stations to Buy Bulletproof Panels
This is goes to prove the old Military adage: “All Military Regulations are Written in BLOOD.” Or in other words, it will always take a TRAGEDY to change things. #1: Why were Bulletproof Windows and Doors not Standard in the First Place in ALL Recruiting Stations? #2: Why the LONG Delay in getting this done…
Learning From Terrorist Tactics: Dump Truck VBIED’s?
With the Political Circuses (I mean Conventions) going on, you would be hard pressed right now to hear about anything worthwhile in the State Run media other than the latest lies some Politician told, but this little tidbit did catch my eyes and ears: Dump Truck Driver Says He Has Bomb, Smashes Through FBI Gate…
Bracken: Orlando Carry
I always read anything Matt Bracken Writes..Interesting Piece.
Crusader Corner: Another Sad (and Stupid) Sign of What Soft Immigration and Socialist Gun Laws Do To A Nation
The European Terror PANDEMIC Rages. “Islamist knifemen forced priest, 84, to kneel and filmed his death as they slit his throat,” the Daily Mail reported Tuesday. “[J]ihadists storm French church during Mass chanting ‘Allahu Akbar.’” Socialist French President Francois Hollande declared France “at war with ISIS.” The Vatican condemned the killing of the priest…
Modern Crime: Kidnapping Still A Booming Business in South America
Criminals in Brazil are reportedly asking one of the most powerful men in sport for $36.5 million in exchange for the safe return of his mother-in-law. Aparecida Schunck, 67, was kidnapped in Brazil on the night of July 22 in the city of Sao Paulo. She’s the mother of Formula 1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone’s wife…
Russian Corner: The Hybrid State as Adversary
Oceans of ink and terabytes of electronic musings have been expended on the subject of hybrid warfare. The classic formulation is a non-state actor with appurtenances of state power and, in many cases, support from traditional nation states. Of particular concern to defense planners and intelligence experts was the ability of these non-state actors to…
Modern Crime: Italian Mafia May Have Been Supplying Weapons to ISIS
Organized criminal groups in southern Italy may be supplying assault weapons to groups and individuals that are associated with the Islamic State, according to European investigators. British newspaper The Guardian said last week that security officials in Italy, Britain, and elsewhere in Europe have traced weapons used by Islamists to at least one arms cache…
History of Terrorism: Munich 1972 and 2016
The long history of German incompetence in the face of Islamist terrorism We all know about Germany under Angela Merkel deciding to admit about a million immigrants from lands where jihadism, Sharia law, terrorism and hatred of women, Jews and gays are endemic. Most of know that on New Years’ Eve last, some 1000…
Examining Terrorist Tactics: The Jihadist Comms Toolkit
A new report documents how extremist groups’ use of secure digital tools software has evolved. “I don’t think that there are too many [makers of encrypted communication tools who] can say that bad guys don’t use their stuff, accurately,” NSA deputy director Richard Ledgett said during the recent Defense One Tech Summit, describing ISIS’ use…