Ron P. Schwery - The Cognitive Warrior Project

Bullets

Light Attack Planes, Wingman Drones, Ideological Purity, The Revenge of Geography and other Bullets

ByRon P. SchweryMay 5, 2020

After almost 15 years we have decided to replace our Honda Accord as one of our primary vehicles. It was a good run. We originally purchased her to escort my wife and soon to be oldest child around but, since 2014 she has not been able to hold the entire family, a power

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To Serve China: Huawei and Potential Threat to the 5G Network, Part 3 of 5

ByRon P. SchweryMay 4, 2020

The following is part three 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

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To Serve China: Huawei and Potential Threat to the 5G Network, Part 2 of 5

ByRon P. SchweryMay 1, 2020

The following is part two 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

Book Discussion

Book Discussion: The Plan for Kilcullen and The end of war as we know it

ByRon P. SchweryMay 1, 2020

I have been looking forward to this since the idea for this blog came into my head. I did not want to write a book review, everyone does that. I wanted to host a book discussion where I and others could talk about the book, work through questions and concepts that were not

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To Serve China: Huawei and Potential Threat to the 5G Network, Part 1 of 5

ByRon P. SchweryApril 30, 2020

The following is the first part 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

Bullets

Russian Commandos, Hezbollah, Railguns, Terrorism in a Pandemic and other Bullets

ByRon P. SchweryApril 29, 2020

My back-yard training area is officially shut down. For those of you that know me, I was an environmental major when I got my bachelor’s degree. In that, I took ornithology, the study of birds. Ever since, birds have always been a side interest of mine and today on the

Terrorism

Tuesday Terror Update: ISIS vs. Al Qaeda

ByRon P. SchweryApril 28, 2020

Man, the rabbit hole is deep. Yesterday I intended on getting an article out about tourniquets but got completely derailed reading about hemorrhage control. That plus homeschool and my actual job…maybe next week. For our Tuesday Terror update we are going back to the well to

Bullets

Iraqi Politics, Kim Jun Un Dead?, Electric Vehicles, Genetically Modified Warriors and Other Bullets

ByRon P. SchweryApril 25, 2020

Just got back from a kayak adventure in the North Carolina swamps with two, three and four. Not far from here is the Black River, home to one of the oldest living trees in the world, a Bald Cypress that is over 2,642 years old. I think I have been trying to write this

ByRon P. SchweryApril 25, 2020

The plan for this book review space is to provide a more detailed discussion on a specific book or in this case paper than a review. If we are reading a book, I would like to discuss it chapter by chapter to better understand the content. That way we can try to note

Insurgencies

Counterinsurgencies: Che Guevara

ByRon P. SchweryApril 22, 2020

When I was in the second half of the MOS portion of the 18D course, we were doing our clinical rotations, I was assigned to work in a hospital on a Basic Training Post. For the first few weeks it was pretty standard sick call type stuff, emergency room rotations labor and