“For several months, the two opposing fleets would face off in a tense game of brinksmanship. The standoff became known as the Samoan Crisis.” GERMANY WAS A LATE BLOOMER among Europe’s imperial powers. After attaining nation-state status in 1870, Otto von Bismarck’s newly unified Germany made up for its recent arrival on the world stage by…
Modern Crime: A Bloody Gang War is Raging in Amsterdam
On March 10, a 23-year-old man’s severed head was displayed at the entrance of a hookah lounge in Amsterdam where drug dealers are known to gather. The rest of the victim’s body was found in a burned-out car on the other side of the city. It was the latest grisly episode in a conflict between…
The Surveillance State: FISC Court Rejects Challenge to Warrantless Email Searches
In a just-released court opinion, a federal court judge overseeing government surveillance programs said he was “extremely concerned” about a series of incidents in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency deviated from court-approved limits on their snooping activities. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Thomas Hogan sharply criticized the two agencies over…
Know Your Weapons: The Adams Revolver
Robert Adams and Samuel Colt Waged a Vicious, but Largely Unknown War over the 19th Century Pistol market By 1850, Samuel Colt had come to dominate the American revolver market, aggressively defending his patents and using advanced manufacturing processes to out-produce rivals. Meanwhile in February 1851, British gunsmith Robert Adams patented his double-action revolver design….
Israel Watch: Shin Bet Bust Jewish Terror Network in the West Bank
Right Wing Jewish “Terrorist” Groups that have sprung up in response to the onslaught of Iranian backed Palestinian terror attacks are something you do not hear a lot about in the news, but are a phenomenon that is nothing new in Israel’s history.-SF Shin Bet busts Jewish terror ring in the West Bank 2 minors…
Crusader Corner: German and Italian Intel Predicts More Terror Attacks on European Resorts
German and Italian intelligence agencies have uncovered evidence indicating that terrorists are planning attacks this summer at resorts in France, Italy, and Spain. The information was first received by Italian intelligence, who passed it along to their German counterpart, the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), notes a report in the April 19 issue of…
One Big Reason America is Not Ready for World War III
I was on this hill as a battery commander with six 88-millimeter antitank guns, and the Americans kept sending tanks down the road and we kept knocking them out. Finally, we ran out of ammunition and the Americans didn’t run out of tanks. [Nazi Artillery Commander, Battle of Salerno] At the start of World War…
In Memoriam: SAS Legend Barry Davies Passes Away
(In this rare picture, we see the SAS Major Alastair Morrison (on the ladder) and Sgt Barry Davies (on ‘wing) helping facilitate the’ evacuation of the hostages. Note the operators from GSG9 on the other side of ‘unit) Barry Davies, the former British Special Air Service Officer who was decorated for the part he played…
Dose of Truth
Does it still bother SOME of you other there that a dedicated SOCIALIST could go so far in a campaign? I have always said there could not be a Bernie Sanders without 8 years of Barrack Obama…that is the way of Socialism and Communism..it is slow, methodical process of wooing the masses with lies. It…
Obscure Weapons: Thompson Model 1923 Auto Rifle
One of the very early entrants into the United States Ordnance Department’s semiauto rifle trials was the Auto-Ordnance Company, makers of the Thompson submachine gun. For the rifle trials, they designed a .30-06 rifle using the same Blish-locking principle as had been applied to the SMG. Since the Blish principle doesn’t actually work, this resulted…