Month: April 2020
The following is the first part of a five part series about Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant. I wrote this paper while I was working on my Master’s Degree at Penn State and believe that is relevant today given the simmering tensions with China. In my opinion, this
Russian Commandos, Hezbollah, Railguns, Terrorism in a Pandemic and other Bullets
My back-yard training area is officially shut down. For those of you that know me, I was an environmental major when I got my bachelor’s degree. In that, I took ornithology, the study of birds. Ever since, birds have always been a side interest of mine and today on the
Tuesday Terror Update: ISIS vs. Al Qaeda
Man, the rabbit hole is deep. Yesterday I intended on getting an article out about tourniquets but got completely derailed reading about hemorrhage control. That plus homeschool and my actual job…maybe next week. For our Tuesday Terror update we are going back to the well to
Iraqi Politics, Kim Jun Un Dead?, Electric Vehicles, Genetically Modified Warriors and Other Bullets
Just got back from a kayak adventure in the North Carolina swamps with two, three and four. Not far from here is the Black River, home to one of the oldest living trees in the world, a Bald Cypress that is over 2,642 years old. I think I have been trying to write this
Book / Paper Discussion: Best Practices in Counterinsurgency
The plan for this book review space is to provide a more detailed discussion on a specific book or in this case paper than a review. If we are reading a book, I would like to discuss it chapter by chapter to better understand the content. That way we can try to note
Counterinsurgencies: Che Guevara
When I was in the second half of the MOS portion of the 18D course, we were doing our clinical rotations, I was assigned to work in a hospital on a Basic Training Post. For the first few weeks it was pretty standard sick call type stuff, emergency room rotations labor and
Tuesday Terror Update: The Wheel of Jihad
Meta: I hate Verizon. For our Tuesday Terror update we are going to look at three Podcasts with the Long War Journal’s Thomas Joscelyn & Bill Roggio. John Batchelor interviews them weekly for his show on Monday evening and the podcast drops in the morning. Typically,
Al Qaeda and ISIS in the Shael, Advisors in Afghanistan, The Arsenal of Democracy and other Bullets
The wife had the day off today. Her corona schedule has been crazy. I think she is working more hours now than before. Anyway, we spent the day running around as much as you can under the current conditions…Tractor Supply for chicken feed, the grocery store. It was a good
Monday Morning Medical: Blown Ear Drum
Morning eh…there were lots of questions on the home school front today…I don’t know how common blown ear drums are for everyday folks, but I imagine it happens more often in our line of work than others. (I say our line of work with the full acknowledgement that I have not
New York Times: China Limited the Mekong’s Flow. Other Countries Suffered a Drought.
New research show that Beijing’s engineers appear to have directly caused the record low levels of water in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Last night was a big night in the household. Two, three and four spent the night outside in a tent by themselves. It was a