Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Black Hawk Down’

MOUT: military operations on urban terrain. Not for lunatics

Nearly all of the combat taking place in the Middle East is MOUT: military operations on urban terrain. Soldiers must undergo extensive training in order to succeed at MOUT. The Los Angeles Police Department Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) taught the US military the MOUT techniques that all modern armed forces use. You’ve seen them…

 

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A shockingly good movie about terrorism

I haven’t gone to a theater since 2002. The last time was when my brother Tim and I saw the Mel Gibson movie Signs, directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Though the film was awful, the audience was unspeakable. Everybody talked at the tops of their voices—to each other, to the movie, and to people on…

 

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They still want to kill you

I wrote a post about Caliph Ibrahim, the leader of the new Islamic State. He issued his first official statement as the new caliph; in it, he says that the mujahedin will take over the world. I got a little pushback over that post. It’s a criticism I hear often, so I thought I’d address…

 

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