Current Events

14 Feb Russians Have Already Started Hybrid War With Bomb Threats, Cyberattacks, Ukraine Says

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Moscow is using cyberattacks, economic pressure and, most recently, false bomb threats, to undermine its neighbor, Kyiv says Read full article on WSJ.com KYIV, Ukraine—U.S. officials are warning that Russia could be about to attack Ukraine. For many citizens in this embattled country, the assault has already...

10 Feb Russia’s Wagner Group in Africa: Influence, commercial concessions, rights violations, and counterinsurgency failure

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Read full article on Brownings.edu Russia is intensifying its competition with the United States in Africa. In its asymmetric race, Russia uses nominally private, but in fact state-linked actors such as the private security company the Wagner Group and the infamous St. Petersburg “troll farm” the Internet Research...

01 Feb Special operations legend John Singlaub has died at the age of 100

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Read full article on ArmyTimes.com Retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, a decorated veteran of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, and legendary special operator, died Jan. 29 at the age of 100. Singlaub, a native of Independence, California, commissioned as a U.S Army 2nd lieutenant, following his graduation from the...

17 Jan Why Did Russia Escalate Its Gray Zone Conflict in Ukraine?

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Read original article on LawfareBlog Editor’s Note: Russia appears to have taken so-called gray zone warfare to a new level, using subversion and clandestine operations to undermine its neighbors and expand its influence. Scholars J. Andres Gannon, Erik Gartzke, Jon Lindsay and Peter Schram contend, however, that...

28 Dec Taking Down the Caliphate

Posted at 12:49h in Current Events

The story of an ad-hoc SOF task force that helped turn the tide against the Islamic state – and why the lessons of this campaign are more important than ever by Andrew Milburn “The battle showed how the campaign against the Islamic State [...

28 Dec Richard Marcinko seal team 6 founder obituary

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Read full article on Task and Purpose Richard Marcinko, the rough and tumble first commander of the Navy’s storied SEAL Team 6, passed away Saturday at his home in Virginia, the National Navy SEAL Museum announced on social media. He was 81 years old. Already a highly decorated officer...