More on Shooter HERE The gunman who opened fire at an Oregon community college was forcing people to stand up and state their religion before he began blasting away at them, survivors said Thursday. A woman who claimed to have a grandmother inside a writing class in Snyder Hall, where a portion the massacre unfolded,…
Crypsis and Mimesis: The Future of Camoflauge and Cloaking
“Berkeley Lab Researchers Create Ultrathin Invisibility Cloak.” So reads a news release from the US Department of Energy’s venerated lab at the University of California, Berkeley. The cloak is too small for even the tiniest of boy wizards — it can cover no more than a few human cells — but it’s a neat accomplishment. It is not, however,…
Razor Wire, Soldiers and Mud: Hungary Sealing itself off from Europe’s Migrant Route
Things may get really ugly if the islamic horde press the issue in Hungary..and frankly, I think they need to get ugly so the rest of he World can WAKE UP to what is happening. I have always said International Law and Politics is just like Industrial Safety Regulations: They are WRITTEN IN BLOOD..it often takes…
Hurricane Joaquin: How to Get Flood Plain Data
It’s a matter of days before Hurricane Joaquin hits the East Coast; the first in the past 15 months despite lots of enviro-pandering that we’d experience more frequent and severe hurricanes as a result of global warming. At any rate, it’s been a while since I blogged, and in light of this hurricane, I wanted…
HOW THE OSS SHAPED THE CIA AND AMERICAN SPECIAL OPS
Six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Office of Strategic Services to collect and analyze intelligence and conduct special operations. Its formal existence lasted just three years. But more than 70 years on, the U.S. organizations charged with these missions today remain indelibly influenced by the OSS…
What @Snowden told me about NSA’s Cyberweapons
By James Bamford Stephen Gerwin, chief of the Howard County Bureau of Utilities, it was “a peculiar project.” His workers were told they needed to get background checks and sign nondisclosure forms before they could begin work on a wastewater pump station in a forested area near the Little Patuxent River. “You sign a document…
Muslim from the U.S. is top ISIS Commander
Kind of blows away the fallacy that JIHADIST ARE ONLY RECRUITED AND EDUCATED IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES DOESN’T IT? Make no mistake about it, they are HERE, right now, among us, being recruited, trained and deployed.-SF How did a Muslim from the U.S. come to have the understanding that taking sex slaves and fighting for the…
Field Review: Spec-Ops Brand Single Point Mamba Sling
I have been a fan of Spec-Ops Brand weapon slings for some time. Having used them both in the military and in the private sector, I can attest to their durability and toughness. So I was really pleased when my friends at Spec-Ops Brand in Monahans, Texas sent me one of their flagship slings…
Field Review: Spec-Ops Brand Combat Master Knife Sheath, Long
My friends over at Spec-Ops Brand decided to send me the Combat Master Knife Sheath Long for review. If you guys remember, I recently reviewed this Sheath’s little brother, the Combat Master, Short. This sheath is identical to its little brother in features with the exception it will fit an 8 inch blade. It…
The Battle of Salamis: Themistocles and the Birth of Strategy
The dichotomy of strategy and tactics in war did not solidify as a concept until the publication of Carl von Clausewitz’ On War in 1832. Since then the relationship between the two has been hotly debated, along with the subsequent interjection of the operational level of war. What is not debated are the concepts themselves….