Dr. Cora Du Bois, American Bad-Ass of the OSS in Southeast Asia As Women’s History Month draws to a close, I wanted to share some insights about one of my favorite scholars at war,anthropologist Dr. Cora Du Bois (1903–1991). During the Second World War, Du Bois served with the Office of Strategic Service (OSS)’s Research…
Military Weapons from the Past: Yugoslav 8mm Chaucat/M1915/26
Reader Mihajlo sent me a couple cool photos of Yugoslav troops with Chauchats converted to 8x57mm. Here’s his commentary: Here’s a picture from WW2 Yugoslavia I’d like to share with you. The guy on the right is holding a Dutch M.20 6,5 mm Lewis gun and the other guy is holding a Yugoslav Chauchat CSRG…
Military News: Hands Off! A Cautionary Tale of a .50 BMG Round and a Idiot Named Joe
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article first ran back in August of 2014. As evidenced by the Reservist who recently set off a .50 caliber tracer round by taking a blowtorch to it, it doesn’t look like things have changed much since then. This article is possibly “not safe for work” due to mild language and an…
Examining Terrorist Tactics: The Changing Logic Behind Suicide Bombings
(Note from Hammerhead: It was just announced that yet another ISIS suicide bomber killed 29 people in a Football Stadium in Baghdad). What was once purely a strategic action has become a tactical move meant to help hold territory. In October 2015, two suicide bombers killed more than 100 people outside a railway station in the Turkish capital…
Profiles in Courage: MARSOC Team Endured Hell to Evacuate Wounded
“We faced what seemed the inevitability of death.” While conducting village stability operations in the Upper Gereshk Valley, of Helmand province Afghanistan, a Marine Special Operations Team with 1st Marine Special Operation Battalion came under heavy fire. The initial volley sparked a gunbattle that would rage for a full two days. On the morning of…
History of Domestic Terrorism: America’s Original ‘Lone-Wolf’ Terrorist
No one noticed as the tall, thin man carried a package into the Capitol and left it in the Senate reception room. It was nearly July 4, 1915, and Congress hadn’t been in session since March, but many of the legislative buildings were open and thinly guarded. Frank Holt, 44, sneaked back out and made…
Obama the Communist Traitor
Look, I am typically not one to get too involved with politics and the lib-tard propaganda news cycles… but when I read this I got pissed. This clown we call the POTUS is literally pissing on the American ideal of Freedom in FOREIGN, COMMUNIST COUNTRIES! Correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t he take…
World War Two History: The Worst U.S. General of World War II
I was watching Patton with George C. Scott again the other day for about the 400th time and one of the scenes I remember the most was when Fredendall got Relieved by Patton after the disaster at Kasserine Pass in 1943…Even though the Americans were under the command of the British during Kasserine, Fredendall got…
History of Domestic Terrorism: Buda’s Wagon & The Birth of the Car Bomb
He was walking near the corner of Wall and William streets — the hub of New York’s financial district — when a violent roar made him turn around. Two walls of flames “seemed to envelop the whole width of Wall Street,” exporter Elwood M. Louer said, recalling how fire shot as high as the 10th…
Espionage Files: The Brave New World of Drone Hacking
The Israel Police and Shin Bet security service arrested a Gaza resident suspected of hacking into the feeds from Air Force drones and collecting information on troop movements and civilian flights for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, police said Wednesday. A police statement named the suspect as Majd Ouida, 22, describing him as an…