Author: Michael

The United States must honor its solemn obligation to care for its veterans despite renewed calls to curtail veterans disability benefits, a senior official at one of the largest U.S. veterans service organizations told Task & Purpose.
“If our government wants to continue to send us to war, they need to consider the cost of the long-term, back-end impacts of combat,” said Mario Marquez, the American Legion’s executive director of government affairs, in an interview during a media event in Arlington, Virginia on Friday.

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One of 2024’s standout action films was Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War.’ Although mostly a road trip-style film following journalists as they moved closer to the front lines of a second American Civil War, the depictions of combat itself were harrowing. From skirmishes in office parks to a large combined arms battle for Washington, D.C. and close-quarters fighting inside the White House, the action was brought to life by the film’s military advisor Ray Mendoza.

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Wow – a former IRGC Officer worked inside the National Airspace System (NAS) for seven years. Only the Deep State would allow this to happen.
Iran wouldn’t exist at this point if it wasn’t for Chinese financial support. China has a large military/intelligence footprint inside of Iran.
It should be presumed at this time that anything that Iran collects goes straight to China. China has created their own 5Eyes intel collection alliance.
Russia, Iran, NK, and Venezuela are part of the intelligence alliance that feeds the Chinese Big Data/AI Monster.

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If Santa had a Christmas list for the Cold War, it might look something like General Harold K. Johnson’s. A Finnish immigrant, a Vietnam War widow, and a future president of the United States all made the cut — a testament to the global reach and personal touch of a man who led the Army during the 1960s.  Each name on the list tells a story about the Cold War’s “where” and “who.” Alpo K. Marttinen emigrated from Finland and wrote the U.S. Army’s winter warfare doctrine.

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