Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘carrier strike group’

Pentagon confirms Arab League invasion of Syria

I love improvement. I love audacious courage. I love selflessness. I love competence. All the signs pointed to it, and now I have the evidence, as provided by the Pentagon: The Arab League has invaded Syria and is in the process of smashing everyone deserving of smashage. First, however, I should mention that March 4,…

 

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Weapons and tactics. Study them, and you’ll know the world

Last night I wrote a post about the war of words between Turkey and the Syrian Kurds. My opinion is that it’s posturing as a way of saving face, a way of projecting strength, and as geopolitical deception. Today I discovered that I was right. My knowledge of weapons and military capabilities allowed me to…

 

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Everything you’re hearing is wrong

Most of what I post is based on conjecture. However, I’ve studied military matters—specifically weapons, munitions, tactics, and strategies—for forty years. Therefore I make guesses that are generally proven correct. The best armed forces in the world don’t advertise their capabilities or operations, so nobody is confirming anything to me. But I can tell you…

 

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Vanity is my favorite sin

“Vanity is definitely my favorite sin,” says Satan in the film The Devil’s Advocate. It’s my favorite sin too, but for the opposite reason: Self-love—a miserably unhappy version of it—is what defines evil people. Because of their vanity, we can easily defeat them. I spent a year studying the Hamas military deception (MILDEC) operation that…

 

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