Chesty Puller is one of my all time favorite Marines in History. One look at this guy and immediately you know he is somebody not to be trifled with! This devil dog’s career spans decades of conflict over several continents. A Modern Day Spartan… A True Warrior, A True Marine. A Man built for the…
Category: Military History
The Watermelon Patch: The Bad-Assness of the American Fighting Man!
As Warriors we assume the lineage of those who went before us and only in knowing our lineage can we honor them. This month we will focus on the Badassness of the American fighting man – along with a few other interesting military obscurities from our collective past. Let’s start by singing Happy 54th Birthday…
16 basic principles of Mass Indoctrination
1.Start While They are Young 2. Create the Illusion of Political Freedom 3. Use Simplistic Stereo-types to Sway Public Opinion Read the Remainder at Medium
Time to Think About “Hybrid Defense”
By Mark Galeotti If the new threat is so complex, political, and subtle, shouldn’t the response be the same? Much is made these days of the new challenge to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from “hybrid warfare” — the kind of blended military-political-intelligence-economic operations Russia has launched in Ukraine. Whether or not this really…
Military REVISES Count Says 500 Americans likely Killed in Iraq by “Iranian Activities”
I can tell you for a fact that our of ALL the IED deaths in Iraq (2,550) at least half or more were Iranian EFP’s; that is way more than 500 deaths folks, it is more like 1,200. Let’s tell the truth for once Washington. -SF CENTCOM says that 500 number Sen. Ted Cruz keeps…
What Tempers the Steel of an Infantry Unit
“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” –Rudyard Kipling, The Law of the Jungle, The Jungle Book. The current debate about women in the infantry takes place in an artificial context, because it nearly always self-limits the discussion to physical capabilities….
China’s Newest Weapons
When I first saw the pictures in this article I got goosebumps… I am old enough to remember the Soviet “May Day” Parades in Moscow in the 80’s, where they would parade around and show off all their ICBM’s. China, like Russia then, seems to be in a fighting mood, and with China’s latest threatening…
China’s New “We will Kick America’s Ass” Propaganda Video
Yesterday, China held a parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of World War II, and swore high and low that it wasn’t flexing its military muscles in the process. Zhang Ming, vice minister of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told a press conference last month that “if someone says this is flexing anything, it is a flexing of the…
How Many US Troops Were Killed by Iranian IED’s?
Yeah, Mr. Kerry and BHO, that was a really great move signing off on a deal that gave these Iranian POS Billions of dollars to continue their terrorist activities….Never mind they were responsible for thousands of American deaths in Iraq. What do you call it when a Govt Official (The Secretary of State and President…
Paying off jihadist NEVER works: A Short History lesson
By Karin McQuillan As Congress is on the verge of giving President Obama his Iran Deal, including a payoff of $150 billion dollars to Iran’s terror regime, they might do well to contrast our founding fathers with the current occupant of the White House. In the Ramadan speech in which he declared his support for…