Ultimate Military Alerts

Here’s the bottom line: I staunchly oppose the appointment and confirmation of Mr. John Ratcliffe — a man with insufficient national security experience — as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the leader responsible for coordinating the efforts of the intelligence community and personally shaping the President’s understanding and consumption of intelligence information. As you […]

Editor’s note: This article was written by Ana-Maria Baloi and originally published on Grey Dynamics. This report examines the benefits of using satellite imagery in countering piracy activity in the Gulf of Guinea. For collection and processing, the author used Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Geointelligence (GEOINT). The reconstructed scenario is based on the following key […]

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The year 2020 will not go down as one of America’s finest, but one of its worst. From the COVID-19  pandemic, which ruined the economy and put nearly a quarter of the working force in many states out of work, to the needless murder of two African-American men, one in Georgia and the other in […]

One of the constant reminders of the cost of endless wars is the human toll they exact. This is not just confined to soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines, but to their families too. Every time a warrior is either killed or seriously wounded in battle, his or her family is left to pick up the […]

Thousands of military firefighters were trained at Air Force bases across the country to spray firefighting foams made with toxic and carcinogenic PFAS chemicals (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances). The foam was believed to be a fast and effective tool to fight complex liquid fuel fires. Military installations used aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) in fire-fighting training […]

Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Dunkirk, began nearly 80 years ago today. In May of 1940, British, French, and Belgian troops were trapped by the German army in western France. Blitzkrieg, or “lightning war” had proven terribly effective. With the Allied armies nearing total collapse as the Germans neared the French coastline, the British launched […]

In the spring of 1991, in the aftermath of the defeat of the Iraqi military forces in the Gulf War (Desert Storm), a humanitarian crisis of immense proportions took place. Once the truce was signed by the Iraqi military representatives and the Coalition nations led by the United States, the allies quickly looked to exit […]