Thomas Wictor

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MILDEC is an acronym that all Middle Easterners should know

Syria is the testing ground for new weapons and war-fighting methods. It’s also where MILDEC or military deception was perfected. MILDEC defeats the enemy without killing him or the civilians he uses as human shields. Until the end of time, armed forces will study Syria and the miracles that the Arab League and her allies…

 

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Preference cascade is underway in the Middle East

I never tell people how to think or feel. Everyone has to figure things out for themselves. However, I personally never believed that all Muslims are untrustworthy. I didn’t think that the Middle East would change as rapidly as it is, but I knew that someday things would be different. Now, we’re seeing a full-tilt…

 

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OPSEC is what keeps soldiers alive on the battlefield

On May 3, 2016, US Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Keating IV was fatally wounded in Tal Askuf, Iraq, during a firefight with the Islamic State. Keating was a SEAL assigned to a quick-reaction force (QRF) sent in to rescue eleven Americans who were advising the Kurdish Peshmerga. It appears that the OPSEC or…

 

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Tribalism is the downfall of the west

I’m old enough to remember a period during which Americans weren’t belligerent idiots. The cause of our decline is tribalism. Western tribalism is a sort of junk-food version, dumber and more superficial than what you find in so-called backward regions of the world. The blindness of tribalism I knew this was phony the second I…

 

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Relax. We’ll all be quite safe here fairly soon

Relax. You’re quite safe here. You’re not dreaming. Peace is on its way. Don’t give in to paranoomerah, paranoomerah. Ignore 99 percent of what you’re being told. Trust me. Relax. We’re not arming the YPG The Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) and the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) in Syria together number about 15,000. The men…

 

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