1992-12-09 US Marines and allied nations launch an amphibious and airborne operation in Mogadishu, Somalia, to restore order to the war-torn nation. Authorized by UN Security Council Resolution 794, passed on December 3. A civil war in Somalia had raged since the late 1980s when dictator Siad Barre began to face significant resistance to…
Category: History of Terrorism
Young Men, Political Violence is Your Obligation
Young Men, Political Violence is Your Obligation Young Men, We Need a Factory Reset For our entire lives we’ve heard schoolmarms, the media, liberal Christians and other subversives lecturing young men that “violence doesn’t solve problems.” Every time we have a public killing, we are told “political violence isn’t the answer.” Now, anyone who…
On This Day in History: Operation Restore Hope, Somalia 1992
U.S. Army in Somalia 1992-1994 US Marines and allied nations launch an amphibious and airborne operation in Mogadishu, Somalia to restore order to the war-torn nation. Authorized by UN Security Council Resolution 794 passed on December 3. UNDER FIRE: Battle of the Black Sea On October 3, 1993, a composite force of United…
Asymmetrical Warfare and 4GW: How Militia Groups Are America’s Domestic Viet Cong
*From the Archives Asymmetrical Warfare and 4GW: How Militia Groups are America’s Domestic Viet Cong Civil War 2 appears to be the new buzzword among both sides of the brewing conflict in the US, no longer considered some fringe notion. The Right and the Left find themselves at an impasse, and its rapidly…
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September 11 Wasn’t Allowed To Influence Mass Muslim Immigration
September 11 Wasn’t Allowed To Influence Mass Muslim Immigration When September 11 happened, I was working for VDARE.com and did a column asking if Americans would “wake up and smell the coffee” about immigration. They didn’t much, because they weren’t allowed to. The President at the time, George W. Bush, with his family association with oil companies,…
Movies and Series about European Political Terrorism: Exterior Night
Being a history nerd, I am always on the lookout for interesting historical movies or series and the other day I ran across one from Italy titled Exterior Night (aka Esterno Notte) about The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists. Now this is not the…
Know Your Real History: The secret IRA–Soviet agreement, 1925
The secret IRA–Soviet agreement, 1925 In the summer of 1925, just two years after the IRA’s defeat in the Civil War, the organisation sent a delegation to Moscow to solicit finance and weaponry from the Soviet Union. According to Tim Pat Coogan, the Russians asked their guests, ‘How many bishops did you hang?’, and…
The Act of Remembrance
The Act of Remembrance On March 6, 1970, a bomb exploded in the basement of a townhouse in New York City’s Greenwich Village. The resulting blast completely destroyed the four-story townhouse and severely damaged the nearby buildings. Originally thought to be the result of a gas leak, it was soon discovered that the townhouse…
Guerilla Warfare History: Commercial and Artisanal Hand Grenades of the Spanish Civil War
Commercial and Artisanal Hand Grenades of the Spanish Civil War Hermit Notes: There are only a handful of Substack Subscriptions I would recommend and Karl Dahl’s is at the top of the list. I also Highly recommend his Fiction. WARNING! Don’t get any silly ideas – the information contained herein is for historic…