by Mikael Cook When Afghanistan fell back into the hands of the Taliban in the summer of 2021, Staff Sergeant Liyaquat Qurbanali, a member of the Continue Reading
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Afghanistan: A Woman, Just Like Me
by Kaitlyn Trevathan This first appeared in The Havok Journal on September 29, 2021. On Saturday, September 11, 2021, my dad shared a post Continue Reading
Why We Need a Director of National Economy, Right Now
by an anonymous Special Forces officer There can be economy only where there is efficiency. -Benjamin Disraeli __________ In 2009, Dennis Continue Reading
The Ugly Truth about Torture
Morals are a construct. We are not born with them, we learn them based on societal agreed-upon rules. We evaluate our standards against what is Continue Reading
The Risk of WMD Terrorism from a Homegrown Violent Extremist
I initially wrote the following article as a hypothetical opening statement before the House Homeland Security Committee and is the foundation for a Continue Reading
Know Your Role: 7 Rules For Supporting Special Operations
by Michael Kane While I still have a few years left, I am at the tail end of my military career. I have been fortunate enough to spend most of my Continue Reading
The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf
Once upon a time, there was a General in the Pentagon who was in charge of all the F-16s in the Air Force and he found out about a very dangerous Continue Reading
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Rangers Lead the Way
"These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the Continue Reading
Battle of the Bridge: A Company, 1-505th at La Fiere Bridge
75 years ago, units of the American Paratroopers had already landed behind German lines in France. One such unit was the 505thParachute Infantry Continue Reading
Paratroopers of WWII: Double Volunteers
When soldiers are asked why they volunteered for the paratroopers, their responses come in many forms. Many men signed up to be in the Airborne Continue Reading
Cyber Warfare: The Next WMD?
National security experts and the general populace most commonly associate Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) with a chemical, biological, Continue Reading
Roots of Airborne Success: The Parachute Test Platoon
The American Airborne concept first suggested in World War I, became a need heading into World War II. The war started years before direct American Continue Reading