AFP has reported on suspicion regarding the narrative promoted by the Shawn Ryan interview with Sam Shoemate, and the alleged emails which were quickly ‘confirmed’ by the FBI.
UPDATE: Lara Logan Says Shawn Ryan Interview CIA Narrative Push
More questions are now being asked, including surveillance video which appears to show the Tesla driver erect and moving prior to the explosion.
Law enforcement reported the driver had shot himself prior to the explosion.
The video in question is below – we report, you decide.

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I recently have enjoyed many conversations with former military colleagues, and defense contractors.
Since Nov 5th, I have asked them what was the mood was on the ground in the force, concerning the incoming administration and everything that entails…you know, America First, anti-Marxism, anti-DEI, etc.
I have been shocked by their response.
Many of them In my opinion have lost the ability to critically think.
They have been absorbed by ‘the blob’, likely scared for their careers, their livelihood, and future political futures.

The Army’s Criminal Investigation Division’s Carolinas Field Office is offering a $10,000 reward for a bunch of stolen HMMWV, better known as Humvee, doors. The debauchery is afoot at one of the largest military bases on the East Coast, home of the Army’s special operations, heart of the airborne and now the site of an ongoing misdemeanor spree involving the stolen doors. 
These stolen doors are from the arguably most useless vehicles in the U.S. military’s arsenal, non-armored Humvees. U.S. Army WTF Moments shared the CID award release on Thursday, Jan.

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U.S. military bases across North America are initiating heightened security measures, including suspending the Trusted Traveler Program, following violent attacks this week in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
The order from U.S. Northern Command, which multiple installations announced on Friday, Jan. 3, directs bases to initiate a full identification check at all entry points onto bases. Anyone 18 years and older must present their IDs to security at gates. The military’s Trusted Traveler Program is suspended until further notice, per the bases.

Citizen Soldier, RealClearDefense
He’s urging confirmation of President Trump’s national security team of Kash Patel for FBI Director, Tulsi Gabbard for DNI, and Pete Hegseth as Secretary of…

Cannon and Zane, RealClearPolitics

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Royal Navy basic training takes place at HMS Ra

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Actor Denis Leary’s latest TV series, “Going Dutch,” is a comedic military portrayal of an Army unit stationed in a remote corner of the Netherlands known as “Garrison…

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The U.S. Navy’s LCS fleet continues to expand its capability portfolio as new systems are integrated onto the multi-mission ships.

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The active-duty Green Beret soldier who died after blowing up a Tesla Cybertruck in front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day left a note calling the…

A female admissions liaison officer at the U.S. Air Force Academy recently wrote an op-ed in the Air Force Times titled, “How the Air Force can move from storming to norming hair standards” where she complains about airmen not liking or going along with the changes to hairstyle standards for women put in place three years ago.
In 2021, she wrote a paper, “Warrior Braids and the Air Force Women’s Initiative Team – The Invisible Labor behind Diversity, Inclusion, and Institutional Change” published on the Air University.

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You Decide…
Shawn Ryan interviewed retired U.S. Army intelligence officer Sam Shoemate today regarding a manifesto sent to Shoemate by Matthew Livelsberger, the reported Tesla truck bomber.
The email received by Shoemate is below.
Below that email text is the interview.
Below that is analysis by Matt Tardio, former SF, which seems thoughtful on its face.
Is it real? Or is it an op to promote a narrative? Should we trust anything the FBI says at this point?
You decide.

Investigators in Las Vegas said letters and emails from a cellphone and dental records provided by the Army confirmed that a Special Forces soldier was behind the wheel of a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded in front of a Las Vegas hotel. The new information also painted a picture, investigators said, of a combat veteran in a mental health crisis during the months leading up to the New Year’s Day incident.
Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger, 37, likely shot himself before a bomb in the Tesla exploded, authorities said.

A man captured and sold to the war industry in Ukraine managed to make a short video inside one of many Territorial Recruitment Centers (TRCs) in Ukraine. These men are captured and sold to the military and rapidly shipped to the front lines. The police and the military, trying to avoid the fighting, capture others to fight in their place. Avoiding fighting is one motivation, and the other is profit-making. Some abductors make $2,000-$2,500 per day in human trafficking.

As Ukraine’s military fights to hold of the Russian invasion following a third Christmas season, the nation unites to the sound of a classic Christmas tune. “Shchedryk,” known in English as “The Little Swallow,” was arranged by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych as a New Year’s Eve song in 1901. Students at Kyiv University performed early performances of “Shchedryk” and the final version was published in 1919.

Less than a year since the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit entered its new era dubbed DIU 3.0, the innovation hub has its eyes set on further scaling operations and bringing more non-traditional contractors into the department’s ecosystem.
DIU Director Doug Beck unveiled his updated strategic vision in early 2024 as a way to address a number of challenges that have kept the organization from accelerating the Defense Department’s adoption of dual-use, commercial technologies.

Actor Denis Leary’s latest TV series, “Going Dutch,” is a comedic military portrayal of an Army unit stationed in a remote corner of the Netherlands known as “Garrison Stroopsdorf.” Actor Denis Leary plays a new unit commander, Col. Patrick Quinn, a role in which he drew inspiration from a career-long interest in Gen. George S. Patton. 
Leary was recently interviewed by Fox News about his new role in “Going Dutch,” where he had a chance to infuse all of his knowledge about Patton into his character. He recalled a conversation with the series creator, Joel Church-Cooper.

The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office recently completed a pilot exercise with tech nonprofit Humane Intelligence that analyzed three well-known large language models in two real-world use cases aimed at improving modern military medicine, officials confirmed Thursday.
In its aftermath, the partners revealed they uncovered hundreds of possible vulnerabilities that defense personnel can account for moving forward when considering LLMs for these purposes.

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Around 100 Russian troops were killed or injure

We’re only on the third day of the new year and 2025 has already shown signs of being just as volatile as last year. On New Year’s Day, an apparent act of terrorism in New Orleans left at least 15 dead and a separate incident in Las Vegas left one dead and seven injured. 
The FBI has identified Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar — who was also briefly in the Navy’s delayed entry program — as the suspect in the attack on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street.

The UK MoD revealed that a laboratory is creating a quantum technology-based atomic clock to improve military intelligence and surveillance.

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Brad Dress, The Hill
The primary suspects in two deadly attacks on New Year’s Day shared a history of service in the U.S.

Chaffin & Gurman, WSJ
Authorities are looking into whether Matthew Livelsberger, a Bronze Star recipient, was having personal problems before he took his own life.

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When Lt. Col. Dustin Johnson was ordered to deploy to the Middle East last year, he and his fellow F-22 Raptor pilots prepared for an unusual challenge.

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Shamsud Din Jabbar had 14 years of active and reserve service, Matthew Livelsberger had just short of 20 years and was possibly active U.S. Army Special Forces

Well the fruit and product of DEI and CRT training is coming home to roost. DEI and CRT are creating the hate and discontent they say they are trying to address. Once more the globalist elite create the problem they say they are trying to resolve.
A Rutgers study shows that DEI Training only makes things worse, not better. Both SDJ and Livelsberger were co-opted by the Tailored Mass Psychosis of the DEI curriculum.

QinetiQ US has secured a task order to advance the US Army’s ISA programme under the oversight of the PEO IEW&S.

Two soldiers will be awarded the Medal of Honor for their battlefield bravery during the Vietnam War: Army Pfc. Kenneth J. David heroically defended a firebase in Vietnam against an overwhelming enemy force, and Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr. heroically gave his life to save his helicopter crew.
For those actions, President Joe Biden will award both David and Nelson the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony that is scheduled for Friday. The Medals will be upgrades of Distinguished Service Crosses both previously received.

The former general for whom Fort Cavazos, Texas is named will be one of five Korean War veterans to posthumously receive the Medal of Honor on Jan. 3.
All five medals will be awarded today by President Joe Biden to the families of the recipients. Biden will also award the Medal of Honor to two Vietnam War veterans.
Cavazos’ name is today among the most widely known in Army history because of Fort Cavazos, the sprawling Texas base that was once Fort Hood.

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“Broken” and “hollowed out” was then-Labour Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey’s characterization of British defense in the spring of 2024. Particularly, British defense procurement was viewed as “repeatedly wasting taxpayers’ money,” and as a result of an absent strategic approach, the national resilience of Britain’s defense industry was in a sorry state of affairs. With Labour now in power and a Strategic Defence Review in progress, a strategic approach is coming in the form of a new Defence Industrial Strategy.

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Rick Landgraf talks with Andrew Forney, author of “Davy Crockett and the Boy Scouts: The Korean War and Mismanaging Protracted Conflict,” featured in Volume 8, Issue 1 of the Texas National Security Review. They discuss how a series of strategic force management decisions undermined the ability of the United States to militarily coerce China and North Korea. Image: PFC E.E. Green, U.S. Army
The post Davy Crockett and the Boy Scouts: The Korean War and Mismanaging Protracted Conflict appeared first on War on the Rocks.

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Companies can now start applying for direct loans from the Defense Department’s Office of Strategic Capital, which is looking to disperse up to nearly $1 billion to finance equipment via its new credit program.
The opening of the application window on Thursday coincided with the unveiling of the organization’s fiscal 2025 investment strategy.
“The OSC Credit Program assesses capital market needs and develops financial instruments to encourage private investment in industries that are both commercially viable and necessary for the geopolitical challenges of the 21st century.

Cadet 1st Class K. Emily Jean Foster died due to complications from brain tumors that were discovered just two weeks before her death, on Dec. 14, 2024, reported Stars and Stripes.
Hailing from Eagle, Idaho, Foster was part of the class of 2025 and majoring in Geospatial Sciences, according to the post. She was an instructor pilot with the 94th Flying Training Squadron and had been selected to receive pilot training after graduation, the post said.

Following his passing on December 29, 2024, the funeral arrangements for former President Jimmy Carter went into effect. Carter passed away at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he will ultimately be buried next to former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, his wife of 77 years. In recognition of his service to Georgia and the United States, public viewings will be held in Georgia and Washington, D.C.

As a former MH-53J Pave Low IIIE driver working with tier one teams, this was interesting to me.

The IDF declassified intelligence on a commando raid that destroyed an Iranian-funded and supported underground compound for manufacturing precision missiles in Syria:
On September 8, 2024, over 100 Shaldag commandos raided an underground compound in Masyaf, Syria. The target was a facility used to manufacture precision guided missiles for Hezbollah and other Iran-affiliated groups in the region.

Lt Gen Ben Hodges, former Commander, US Army Eu