MISSING MAN: THE AMERICAN SPY WHO VANISHED IN IRAN By Barry Meier Farrar Straus Giroux, $27.00, 273 pp. The American public — especially the media — tends to demand, “Who’s to blame?” when a person vanishes in a foreign land with no explanation as to why, or whether, he is being held. Such is the…
Military Naval History: The Last Battle of CPO 1st Class George Palmer Saunders
Offshore where sea and skyline blend In rain, the daylight dies; The sullen, shouldering swells attend Night and our sacrifice — The Destroyers, by Rudyard Kipling In 1988 I was invited to give a lecture on AIDS and surgery in the city of Örebro, Sweden. I knew that my grandfather, Chief Petty Officer 1st…
Military Defense News: The Reaper Machine Gun Support Pole
Sometimes the simplest things make a world of difference. -SF When the legendary American-born inventor Hiram Maxim designed the first modern machine gun at the end of the 19th century, he completely changedthe face of war. But after more than a century of development, one thing still limits these deadly weapons — their weight. In early May…
Profiles in Courage: Veteran Who Lost a Leg to an IED has Completed 26 Marathons to Date
Next time you get the urge to bitch and moan about your life being hard, unfair or difficult…Come back and Read this article. This Modern Spartan personifies and epitomizes the phrase “Never Give Up!”-SF Losing his leg to an IED hasn’t kept Freddie De Los Santos from finishing 26 competitive races. When the Twin Towers…
Ancient History: Ye’ Merry old Days Of Spearing Those Cursed Flying Machines Called Drones
This is what happens when you fly a 21st century drone over an epic 15th century battle. Way back in the olden days, when unicorns roamed the Earth and dragons ruled the skies, before gunpowder and reflective belts and buffalo chicken MREs, your average foot soldier could throw a spear through a man’s eyeball from…
World War II History: Dutch Resistance Fighter Reminisces About Killing Nazi’s as a Teenager
Ninety-year-old Freddie Oversteegen was one of the few women who were active in the Dutch resistance during World War II—along with her sister Truus and Hannie Schaft, who was killed just before the end of the war. When Freddie was 14 years old, a gentleman visited her family home to ask her mother if she…
Texas News: 2013 Fertilizer Plant Explosion That Killed 15 Ruled Arson
Funny they used the word CRIMINAL versus TERRORISM. That tells me they are either covering something up or they have leads on somebody that worked at the plant already. Time will tell. -SF DEVELOPING: Officials launched a hunt Wednesday for possible criminal suspects in the 2013 explosion that killed 15 people at a fertilizer plant in…
Crusader Corner: The Hypocrisy and Injustice of So-Called American “Counter-Terrorism” Policy
By Hammerhead In a nutshell, America’s policy toward “fighting” Terrorism can be summed up like this. The United States conducts Drone Strikes and Military Raids all over the globe in which so-called Terrorist “Leadership” are either killed or taken prisoner. In the same moment all of this is happening, KNOWN TERRORIST, men whom we…
Hair Triggers The World Over…
I was taught a long time ago that when the DISTRACTIONS in your Environment are the LOUDEST, that is the time you need to be the MOST AWARE. Put Aside the REALITY TV SHOW THAT IS AMERICAN POLITICS FOR A SECOND AND CONSIDER: How many times can Three Super Powers REPEATEDLY “BRUSH” UP AGAINST ONE…