Author: Ron P. Schwery
Whew, it has been a little while since I have put together one of these posts to round up the goings on across the world. Hopefully, I can get another together in a day or two to get you caught up. On a side note, sustained winds can make for some choppy boating in the […]
Tuesday Terror Update: A New Terror Map, Soleimani’s Will and Podcast Discussion
A very busy week for terror updates…we are going to continue providing our review of relevant written articles in our terror update along with the usual podcasts. First, we will cover some of the terror articles over the last week and then we will work through our 3
Book Discussion: The Dragons and the Snakes, Part 2 – Chapter 3
I should have known better than to try to cover two Chapters at a time in a Kilcullen book…grumble. For the second installment of our book discussion on David Kilcullen’s latest book, The Dragons and The Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West we will discuss Chapter
The New Rules of War: A Speaker Series Discussion
The genesis for this entire project was born out of the 2019 Cognitive Raider Symposium almost a year ago. The symposium had several presentations and guest speakers, one of which was Sean McFate. McFate, a foreign policy expert, author and novelist had just written his
Weekly Terror Update: Shiite Militia Attacks, ISIS vs. Al Qaeda and The Drone War
Once again the Tuesday Terror update on Wednesday…I might have to reconsider the name. We are going to do things a little different with our terror update by giving you both reading and listening options. First, we will cover some of the terror articles over the last
Book Discussion: The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, Chapters 1-2.
The intention was to have this out on Friday but due to life type stuff I was just not happy with the article that I wrote so I didn’t publish. Mother’s Day and other activities kept me away from finishing it but I think we are all better for the delay. The hardest thing
Micro-dosing Lithium, Urban Combat, AI, Boko Haram and Other Bullets
Just sitting down to this a little later than normal today. I will be working on some backside stuff on the website over the next couple days so posting may be a little lighter than I would like but I also rediscovered a couple websites that in this craziness I had
To Serve China: Huawei and Potential Threat to the 5G Network, Part 5 of 5
The following is the conclusion to our series about Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant. I wrote this paper while I was working on my Master’s Degree at Penn State and believe that is relevant today given the simmering tensions with China. In my opinion, this paper is a
Tuesday Terror Update on Wednesday: The Importance of Reviewing Original Documents
Well my Tuesday terror update got moved to Wednesday. The Generation Jihad podcast is a MUST listen if you care at all about the fight against the Islamic State. I basically listened to all 85 minutes twice! Listen to the podcast, watch the Frontline piece that we discussed
To Serve China: Huawei and Potential Threat to the 5G Network, Part 4 of 5
The following is part four of a five part series about Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant. I wrote this paper while I was working on my Master’s Degree at Penn State and believe that is relevant today given the simmering tensions with China. In my opinion, this paper is