OK, if one European Leader or UN Monkey acts surprised at this announcement I am gonna puke with disgust. How could you not see this one coming? This was their agenda all along! You can’t leave the barn door open and then get pissed because a fox makes a nest in there and eats your…
Category: Warfare
WW I History: Operation China Snow, The Top Secret Mission of Germany’s Zeppelin L59
“The mission would be a risky one – no airship had ever flown such a distance.” TO DESCRIBE Germany’s Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck as a thorn in the side of the British Empire is something of an understatement. Beginning in 1914, the dashing 34-year-old Prussian lieutenant-colonel led a rag-tag band of 3,000 regulars and 10,000 colonial troops…
World War II History: This Japanese Soldier Hid in the Jungle for 30 years after the War was Over!
Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese intelligence officer who hid in the jungle for 30 years thinking this country was still at war. World War II had been over for nearly three decades by the time Hiroo Onoda stopped fighting. An intelligence officer, Onoda was sent to the island of Lubang — a Philippine island south…
The History of the US Army Rangers from 1775 until Now
Just to show I am not biased in my Military History toward the USMC, here is some good reading on the Rangers…:)-SF The US Army Ranger history predates the Revolutionary War. In the mid 1700s, Capt. Benjamin Church and Maj. Robert Rogers both formed Ranger units to fight during the King Phillips War and…
WW I History: German U-Boat Discovered off English Coast
The wreck of a First World War German submarine, missing in action since 1915, has been discovered at a depth of 30m, 90km off the East Anglian coast. The discovery was made by offshore wind farm developers Scottish Power Renewables (SPR) and Vattenfall, whilst undertaking detailed seabed scanning for the development of wind farm projects…
The World’s 20 Most Impressive Fortresses
Mighty military strongholds from ancient castles to modern innovations. A fortress protects and gives military personnel a safe harbor from the enemy. But not all fortresses were created equal. And they certainly weren’t all created the same. We look over time and distance to find the 20 most impressive fortresses from around the world and…
Cold War Files: The Cuban Army Abroad; Castro’s Foreign Cold Warriors
“Throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, Castro was only too eager to export revolution to the Third World. Often this support even came in the form of combat troops to lend a hand to various Marxist uprisings.” AMERICA WAS STILL REELING from its humiliation in Vietnam in 1976 when hawks within the administration of President Gerald Ford were pushing for the United…
This is How WW3 Starts
Russian Fighter Conducts Dangerous Intercept of U.S. Recon Jet Pentagon calls Black Sea aerial provocation ‘unsafe and unprofessional’ A Russian Su-27 jet fighter came within 20 feet of a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea on Monday in Moscow’s latest military provocation involving dangerous aerial encounters. “On Jan. 25 an RC-135 aircraft flying…
ISIS Corner: Why ISIS is Destroying Libya’s Oil
A very clear and concise article that explains one of ISIS’s main characteristics when it comes to Strategy: If they cannot control it or make money off of it, they Kill it. -SF For the second time this month, massive clouds of black smoke from burning oil billowed above Libya. The first time, in early…
Espionage Files: From Pacifist Sheep Farmer to One of Britains Greatest Secret Agents
Occupied France, 1944. Francis Cammaerts stepped from a train onto the railway station platform in Avignon. Almost immediately, German security forces at a checkpoint became suspicious and asked for his papers. The son of a Belgian poet and English actress, he was everything you would never expect in a secret agent. Cammaerts had been a pacifist and conscientious objector…