by Lt Col (ret), US Army, Darin Gaub In August 2021, America entered the history books as another nation buried in Afghanistan's Graveyard of Continue Reading
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Hamas Killed Our People, Too. Americans Need to Remember That.
Hamas killed Americans too. In all of the commotion about "Free Palestine" and "I stand for Israel" going on in our country right now, that seems to Continue Reading
How to Bring a Giant Down | Middle East Narco-Terrorism and U.S. National Security
The United States National Security has traditionally been preoccupied with conventional threats, including nation-states with belligerent foreign Continue Reading
Rebuild Gaza and Israel… But Only With Iran’s Money
When I heard that US President Joe Biden authorized the release of $100 million of US taxpayer money to support "humanitarian relief" in Gaza, I was Continue Reading
The “Why” Behind Potential Terror Attacks in America
The news has been abuzz with discussions and speculations about the presence of Iranian sleeper cells in the United States, with reports appearing on Continue Reading
Borderline: The Latest by Ranger, Actor and Border Patrol Agent Vincent “Rocco” Vargas
Vincent Vargas has been a friend of The Havok Journal since the very beginning of our site. In addition to serving in combat with the 75th Ranger Continue Reading
Thoughts on 11 September: A Special Operations Perspective
by Maj Gen (Ret.) Buck Elton and LTC Mike Kelvington This first appeared in The Havok Journal on September 11, 2021. September 11th, 2001 was Continue Reading
Active U.S. Airman Resorts to Evacuating his Afghan Family… Himself
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
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
It’s Time for the US Military to Focus on the Arctic
by MSG Daniel L. Dodds, US Army In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the instability of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Arctic Continue Reading
The Border Security and Visa Overstays Nightmare: A Way Ahead
By MSG Daniel L. Dodds, US Army On 11 September 2001, people all over the world watched as terrorists hijacked multiple planes that resulted in the Continue Reading
The Top Secret Files: Something Smells Fishy in Massachusetts
by Lt Col (ret), US Army, Darin Gaub Public Domain By now most of America has heard about the young, enlisted U.S. Air National Guard member Continue Reading