American Airborne: Surprise & Deception by Mike Kelvington On May 29, 1944, the commander in chief of the Allied Expeditionary Air Forces, Air Chief Marshall Trafford Leigh-Mallory, expressed his concerns to General Dwight D. Eisenhower about calling off the parachute operations associated with Operation Overlord. Leigh-Mallory warned Eisenhower that he forecasted “the … [Read more...]
Applying the 13 Rules for the Counterradical
Applying the 13 Rules for the Counterradical by Speciali Copias Putting forward a set of proposed rules for an insurgency means nothing without concrete recommendations with respect to how said Rules can be applied within the confines of the currently existing environment. This is due to the fact a thorough understanding of how they may be applied in an existing hostile … [Read more...]
Saudi Women and the War on Terror
Saudi Women and the War on Terror by Mike Kelvington In the masculine-driven nation of Saudi Arabia, women are subordinate men and the state, yet, in the eyes of both, they serve as an important role within their society. Historically and contextually, the Saudi government sees women as weak and “depicted as needing to be protected, controlled, and guided within an … [Read more...]
1st Rule for the Counterradical
1st Rule for the Counterradical by Speciali Copias Rule #1: “Power is not what you believe you have, or what others believe you have, it is only what you can afford to expend.” Control of the means by which to create new wealth and ownership of the minds of the people are the only two sources of real power. All those who do not possess the means by which to … [Read more...]
Ulama in the Kingdom: Useful Pawns or Strategic Partners?
Ulama in the Kingdom: Useful Pawns or Strategic Partners? by Mike Kelvington This first appeared in The Havok Journal April 19, 2017. Prior to reading portions of Nabil Mouline’s The Clerics of Islam I did not see the ulama, or Islamic clerics of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as anything more than religious pawns for the royal Saudi family to use when they needed to … [Read more...]
Venezuela Appoints Wanted Drug Dealer as Oil Czar
Venezuela Appoints Wanted Drug Dealer as Oil Czar by Scott Faith Battling to do something—anything—to combat the death spiral of his country’s economy, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Madura turned to an unlikely source: a man who’s really, really good with drugs. Maduro appointed his former Vice President, Tareck El Aissami, as Venezuela’s oil minister, the latest attempt … [Read more...]
3 Winning PR Strategies for Muslim Extremists
3 Winning PR Strategies for Muslim Extremists by Raul Felix This article first appeared in The Rhino Den, which is run by our friends over at Ranger Up. This first appeared in The Havok Journal April 21, 2017. Just like reality-TV stars, Muslim extremists are attention whores who have no qualms about doing the dirty work to get YouTube hits, social-media buzz, and … [Read more...]
Divided Loyalty: The Immigration Dilemma
Divided Loyalty: The Immigration Dilemma by Leonard Benton This first appeared in The Havok Journal April 5, 2016. We face trying times where loyalty is the only control. How do we find common ground when there is no common ground and loyalty is divided from the beginning? With yet another attack in Belgium the hatred of a few is inflicting pain on many. The West … [Read more...]
Joyriding in the Kingdom: Saudi Arabia’s Lower-Class Gateway Drug
Joyriding in the Kingdom: Saudi Arabia's Lower-Class Gateway Drug by Mike Kelvington This first appeared in The Havok Journal April 11, 2017. In reading the chapter “Street Terrorism” out of Pascal Menoret’s book, Joyriding in Riyadh, I found it striking how an authoritarian state tied to religious ulema could fail to tamp down and limit a socio-economic culture … [Read more...]
Everything I Needed to Know About COVID-19, I Learned in Kindergarten
Everything I Needed to Know About COVID-19, I Learned in Kindergarten by Scott Faith “Wisdom from the mouths of babes.” In trying to absorb all of the (mis)information being thrown my way about the Chinese coronavirus/novel coronavirus/COVID-19/whatever we’re calling it these days, I’m reminded of Robert Fulghum’s seminal work, “All I Really Needed to Know, I Learned in … [Read more...]
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