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…
Heterodox thinking made victory possible
March 26, 2016
I never fit in. It didn’t bother me very much, but my heterodox way of looking at things made life more difficult than it should’ve been. There were times when I wished I could be a magnificent blockhead, marching in lockstep with my peers. Well, I’ve been purged forever of even the slightest wistfulness over…
Blather, symbolism, weakness, denial, and irresponsibility
March 22, 2016
What’s the main response to the Islamic State bombings in Brussels, Belgium, that killed 31? Blather. Some of it is astonishing. This neatly illustrates the collapse of western culture. A hashtag—#StopIslam—is worse than this. A steel bolt embedded in a person’s body. The terrorists at Zaventem International Airport put bolts in their suitcase bombs. Someone…
Social media can tell you who’s winning and losing wars
February 28, 2016
It’s no secret that the Russians have many thousands of fake accounts on social media. Most are under women’s names. The people running the accounts work for the Internet Research Agency, generally called the Agency. In my youth, I was a sucker for the sort of women who the Agency hires. Now, they’re as attractive…
Ordnance that will end major wars. Thank Israel
February 27, 2016
Last night I found the patent for the new munitions that are winning the war in Syria. This ordnance combines a thermobaric or fuel-air explosive and a warhead for generating non-nuclear electromagnetic pulses (EMPs). We need to call it something, so I’ll put EMP together with the acronym for fuel-air explosive (FAE). This gives us…
Cavemen don’t win wars. They make threats and then die
February 22, 2016
I’m not able to tell you when or how Israel will take action against her enemies. The Arab League completely flummoxed me with its military brilliance; therefore I gave up trying to figure out what was going to happen next. I think Israel was waiting for everyone arrayed against her to become cavemen. That moment…
Chaos? I don’t think so. It’s three-dimensional chess
February 19, 2016
CBS News has published a story on what they say is the chaos in Syria, as two American-backed opposition groups fight each other. The 13th Division of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) is said to be firing BGM-71 TOW missiles at the Kurdish Peoples’ Defense Units or YPG. In April of last year the 13th…
End game in Syria now clear and in sight
February 17, 2016
I’m pretty sure that I’ve found the end game in Syria. It’s a stunner. First, here’s an attempt to derail the plan. A car bomb went off in the Turkish capital Wednesday near vehicles carrying military personnel, killing at least 28 people and wounding 61 others, officials said. The explosion occurred during evening rush hour…
Tunnel warfare is far worse than you can imagine
February 10, 2016
You don’t ever want to get involved in tunnel warfare. It’s absolutely hideous. Tunnelers always lose, regardless of how sophisticated their underground passageways become. The reason is simple: A tunnel is a trap for those inside it. In the Gaza war of 2014, Hamas surprised the IDF with attack tunnels. Israeli troops were utterly untrained…
Rough men who do violence on our behalf
December 18, 2015
Frequency illusion—also called the Bader-Meinhof phenomenon—is when something you just learned out about suddenly seems to be everywhere. I’m now seeing indisputable evidence that thousands of Arab special-forces units are waging a very successful war in Syria. Six days ago I had no idea. I believe that these rough men began wide-scale operations in early…