The FBI has reportedly foiled four attempts to sell nuclear material to the Islamic State, and there will no doubt be more. Certainly the Islamic State is a willing buyer. Last May, its magazine Dabiq (which is itself named after the northern Syrian town where Islamic prophecy holds that the final military showdown between the…
How to Explain the KGB’s amazing success identifying CIA agents in the field?
A great example of using “comparison data” and simple deduction to pull back the veil. Counterintelligence 101.-SF As the Cold War drew to a close with the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, those at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, finally hoped to resolve many long-standing puzzles. The most important of which…
DHS Confesses: No Database Exist to Vet Incoming Syrian Refugees
Oh Boy, just what we the American people need to hear as thousands of these people are set to flood American airports and shipyards. Hey POTUS: You think it MIGHT have been a good ideal to ask these questions BEFORE you approved letting thousands of possible jihadist flood our shores?!! Of course not, that would…
Face Off: How America can Really STOP China’s Navy
It’s dangerous to live by the unexamined assumption. Exhibit A: the oft-heard claim that U.S. sea and air forces sporting precision-guided arms will make short work of military facilities on South China Sea islets. “So what?” says one Pentagon official of Beijing’s island-building project. “If China wants to build vulnerable airstrips on these rocks, let…
U.S. Naval Commander in Europe: NATO must Adapt to Russia’s New Way of Hybrid Warfare
Russia has found ways to slow NATO military responses while simultaneously quickening its own ability to mobilize, the commander of U.S. naval forces in Europe and Africa said, and NATO needs to find ways to adapt. Adm. Mark Ferguson, who also commands the Allied Joint Force Command in Naples, Italy, said at the Atlantic Council…
7 Times the U.S. almost stumbled into War with Russia
With all of the shenanigans going on in Syria with Russia lately, I thought it prudent to review America’s history with this long time cold (and sometimes hot) enemy.-SF In light of current events in places like the Ukraine and Syria, the risk of America and Russia fighting a proxy war or even a real war…
The Myth That White Supremacy is Bigger Threat to U.S. Than Jihadis
This patently false claim is part of the ongoing Big Lie campaign to try to downplay and minimize the jihad threat. It first surfaced in June, and in wake of he Oregon murders, the media elites are dragging it back out again. But it is no more coherent or reasonable than it was in…
The ISIS Corner #1: A Prime Example of Propaganda, Wasted Government Resources and Why ISIS is Winning
Just like Cartel Corner that deals with the Mexican and South American Drug Cartels, this is the first in a series of articles dealing strictly with IS (or ISIS) the Islamic State Terrorist Group. Let me know what you guys think and want to see more of. -SF US Officials Ask How ISIS Got So…
The Cartel Corner #2: Drug War Horrors Come to Life in movie Sicario
I recently saw this movie and while I was planning on doing my own review, after coming across this article, I thought it much more educational than just another blogger movie review.-SF Make no mistake; the new thriller in theaters called Sicario is no documentary-style production of the drug war in Mexico. It’s a movie…
U.S. vs. Russia: What a War would look like between the World’s most fearsome Militaries
VLADIMIR PUTIN’S BRAZEN MOVES IN SYRIA AND UKRAINE RAISE NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT AMERICA’S CONTINGENCY PLANS By Andrew Tilghman and Oriana Pawlyk, Staff writers Early on the morning of Sept. 30, a Russian three-star general approached the American embassy in Baghdad, walked past a wall of well-armed Marines, to deliver face-to-face a diplomatic demarche to the…