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Crusader Corner: How Deep is the “Gray Zone”?

Posted on 4 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Among young European Muslims, support for suicide bombings range from 22% in Germany to 29% in Spain, 35% in Britain and 42% in France, according to a Pew poll. In the UK, one in five Muslims have sympathy for the Caliphate. Today more British Muslims join ISIS than the British army. In the Netherlands, a…

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Espionage Files: A CIA Officer’s Long, Futile Secret War

Posted on 4 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

WASHINGTON — In Douglas Laux’s final days as a CIA officer, the futility of his mission prompted him to quote George Orwell to his boss. Laux had spent months in 2012 working with various Middle Eastern nations that were trying to ship arms to Syria to help disparate rebel groups there. But it had become…

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Putin’s Attack Choppers and Merc’s are Winning the War for Assad

Posted on 31 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

The George W. Bush parallel was lost on very few analysts when Vladimir Putin proudly announced that he was withdrawing a significant amount of Russia’s forces from Syria because their “mission is accomplished.” The announcement came just four days after the Atlantic published an overview of “The Obama Doctrine,” wherein U.S. President Barack Obama told journalist…

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Military Defense News: “Train and Equip” Program in Syria = Full Metal Retard, Part Deux

Posted on 29 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

When you start reading this, you will begin shaking your head in disbelief. When you have finished reading this, you will be looking for a bottle of advil because your head will be pounding.-SF It would be difficult to find a program that better exemplifies the word “failure” than the Pentagon’s “train and equip” effort…

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Military Defense News: Russian T-90 Tank vs American TOW Missile…T-90 Can Take A Lickin’ But Keep on Tickin’

Posted on 28 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

For all the videos coming out of the Syrian civil war, a one minute, 31-second clip of a U.S.-made TOW missile slamming into a T-90 tank got more attention than most. In the video uploaded in February, Russia’s most advanced operational battle tank met one of the United States’ main tank killers on the battlefield….

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The Three Faces of Russian Spetsnaz in Syria

Posted on 21 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

As the Russian drawdown from Syria continues, more information continues to emerge about the forces Moscow had committed to shoring up the Assad regime. One telling aspect is how involved Russia’s Spetsnaz special forces were in the deployment. They were involved in two of their three core missions — reconnaissance and special security missions —…

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Clinton Email Reveals Google Sought Overthrow of Syria’s Assad

Posted on 21 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just like with Iran Coup ’53, Big Business and Big Money are often the motivating factor for “Democracy”.-SF   Google in 2012 sought to help insurgents overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to State Department emails receiving fresh scrutiny this week. Messages between former secretary…

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The Persian Army of Xerxes is Preparing to TRY and Rule the World….Again.

Posted on 17 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Ever see the movie 300? or it’s not so great sequel 300: Rise of an Empire? Yeah the enemy the Greeks are fighting in those movies are the Persians…the ancestors of the modern day Quds Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah. -SF Iran preparing to dispatch snipers, commandos to Syria As Russia announces pullout, Tehran says it…

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Military Weapons from the Past: The French MAS-49

Posted on 15 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

France’s stalwart postwar weapon still shows up in Syria In 1957, the French army was hurting. Still reeling from the painful defeat in Indochina and the debacle of the Suez Crisis, France found itself embroiled in counterinsurgency operations in Algeria, battling the Algerian National Liberation Front for control of the country. The French armed forces’…

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The Rise of the Hybrid Warriors: From Ukraine to the Middle East

Posted on 9 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

The Iraqi Army defenders of Ramadi had held their dusty, stony ground for over a year and become familiar with the increasing adeptness of their opponents waving black flags. At first, these Iraqi Army units simply faced sprayed rifle fire, but then it was well-placed sniper rounds that forced these weary units to keep under…

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