The Islamic State Is Reportedly Rounding Up Civilians to Use As Human Shields in Fallujah The Islamic State has reportedly moved civilians to the center of Fallujah, attempting to use residents of the Iraqi city as shields to ward off government recapture, according to humanitarian officials and local leaders. Fallujah, a mere 40 miles from…
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We Need An American Foreign Legion
Not a bad ideal when you consider the pros/con’s, but the devil is in the details in something like this and every contingency must be planned for because of the Potential for Abuse by dumb-ass Politicians and conniving civilians in the Pentagon. -SF President Obama recently announced that an additional 250 Special Operations forces will be…
Crusader Corner: Only “Islam Can Save Us From Islam?”
In the Washington Post, Petraeus complained about the “inflammatory political discourse that has become far too common both at home and abroad against Muslims and Islam”. The former general warned that restricting Muslim immigration would “undermine our ability to defeat Islamist extremists by alienating and undermining the allies whose help we most need to win…
Future Warfare: 21st Century DIY Insurgency
It started innocuously enough. The prime minister-for-life never missed the annual “Liberation Day” parade. With the drums and platoons thundering, nobody noticed as the quadcopter, barely larger than a sparrow, floated down toward the dais, its faint whirr drowned out by the industrial machinery rolling by in formation. It was at once a child’s birthday…
Military News: China and Russia Field “Anti-Stealth” Drones
Both China and Russia appear to be building unmanned aerial vehicles designed to negate America’s advantages in stealth aircraft. Earlier this year, photos first emerged of a new High Altitude, Long Endurance (HALE) UAV termed the Divine Eagle that foreign observers believe is designed to detect and eliminate stealth enemy aircraft far from the Chinese…
Veterans News: Congress Approves Ban on Confederate Flags in VA Cemeteries
I am not going to waste my time or yours beating this dead horse Fighting the War to erase Southern Heritage in America, it is obvious that the powers that be are not going to stop in this tyrannical campaign. But please, MARK MY WORDS: We are now living in Dangerous and Perilous Times, more…
Espionage Files: Operation CONDOR and Chile’s Bloody Past
If you have never read about the bloody past of Chile in the 70’s and the bloody reigns of Allende and Pinochet (whom the CIA helped install in a coup), you should definitely do some reading, if your google-fu is strong, you should have no trouble finding quality reading; You can start with this 2013…
Crusader Corner: In Europe, Christianity is Slowly But Surely Disappearing Due to Islam
The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was the grandest cathedral in the Christian world, until it was captured and converted to a mosque by the Muslim Ottoman Turks in 1453. The Middle East is full of churches and synagogues turned into Islamic sites. Today, every traveler in a modern European city can notice the new mosques…
Going to War Without Skin In The Game
It is interesting to note how many pro-intervention, pro- “boots on the ground” neoconservatives have never served in the military. I’m grateful that America treats its veterans better now than it did in decades past. My father was spit on by hippies when he came home from Vietnam. Yet, “thank you for your service” comments…
Border Security: Deportation Raids ARE NOT Stopping Families From Entering the U.S. Illegally
With bags on her shoulders and her four-year-old daughter in her arms, a 25-year-old single mother named Amanda fled her village in El Salvador without saying goodbye to her parents or siblings. She was focused on just one thing: survival. “I owned a store, and gang members made me pay them $200 of what I…