by AdamElkus | Dec 23, 2013 | Monitor
(by Adam Elkus) Apropos of a conversation I had with infosec provocateur The Grugq last night and a previous conversation with Nick Prime, a short comment on this piece on US covert aid to Colombia (mostly quotations from others): Only then would Colombian ground...
by Robert Tollast | Jul 1, 2013 | Monitor
By: Robert Tollast As Iraq appears to unravel, it is only right to continue the debate about counterinsurgency, the appropriate application of landpower, and the expanding role of Special Operations in the US…
by Grant Martin | Jun 17, 2013 | Monitor
By: Grant Martin Today SOF are being asked to do more than ever before and with increasingly vague and hubristic-sounding missions and concepts. New paradigms are needed.
by aelkus | May 30, 2013 | Monitor
Earlier this year, the Colombian military whacked “32 high-value narco-terrorists” with the help of US Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconaissance (ISR) platforms. Today, we now know that they are all Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) members from...
by dtrombly | May 29, 2013 | Monitor
From what we know from seemingly deliberate leaks on the eve of Obama’s major counterterrorism speech at the National Defense University last week, the most widely criticized ongoing aspect of America’s counterterrorism program, the “signature strikes,” against those...