In Syria, Russia decided to once again test so-called American resolve. On June 16, 2016, Russian aircraft dropped cluster munitions on US-backed rebels in al-Tanf. The bombers were the Su-34 Fullback. To protect the rebels, the US scrambled two F/A-18 Super Hornet fighters from an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean. The US pilots contacted the…
Unknown unknowns of Israel’s next war
January 30, 2015
On February 12, 2002, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made his famous remark about unknown unknowns. Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say…