D-Day is certainly a day to be celebrated; but it is also important to recognize, for those who survived the jumps and beach landings, that day was Continue Reading
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Military Leadership Lessons from Ukraine and Gaza
If you want to understand the future of warfare, stop binge-watching Tic-Tok kill cam drone footage and start watching the real world burn. Ukraine Continue Reading
Logistics is Destiny: What Taiwan and the Pacific Theater Tell Us About Sustainment Warfare
As my co-author and I mentioned in an article here on The Havok Journal--and many others said long before us--Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals Continue Reading
What Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War Can Teach Us About the Future of Military Conflict
Over 2,400 years ago, an Athenian general and historian named Thucydides chronicled a brutal, generation-defining conflict between Athens and Sparta. Continue Reading
Edan Alexander, the Last US Hostage Held by Hamas, Is Now Free. It Only Took 580 Days.
Editor's Note: the image used for this article is AI generated and intended to represent a generalized hostage release, not necessarily that of Edan Continue Reading
American Airborne: Surprise & Deception
On May 29, 1944, the commander in chief of the Allied Expeditionary Air Forces, Air Chief Marshall Trafford Leigh-Mallory, expressed his concerns to Continue Reading
Far From Familiar Faces: Romanian Human Intelligence Teams during the GWOT
by a former Special Forces Officer “I know that I will be called upon to perform tasks in isolation, far from familiar faces and voices.” -The Continue Reading
Sanctuary for Sleeper Cells
“There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.” – Boris Johnson “The average man is a conformist, Continue Reading
Building a Career in National Security: Opportunities and Pathways
Source The demand for professionals who can address modern security challenges continues to grow. From intelligence analysis to emergency response, Continue Reading
The Role of Technology in Modern National Security
Source National security has entered a new era where technology plays a dominant role. Traditional methods like physical border control and human Continue Reading
DeepSeek May Deep Sink Your Innovation
Yesterday, I visited the DeepSeek site, and the first thing that caught my attention was the welcoming tone of its homepage. The screen greeted me Continue Reading
Using The Military to Help Solve the Illegal Alien Invasion Crisis
We are not going to invade ourselves by Lt Col (ret), US Army, Darin Gau This first appeared in CDM Press and The Montana Sentinel and is Continue Reading