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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

Terrorism

Tuesday Terror Update: The Wheel of Jihad

ByRon P. SchweryApril 21, 2020

Meta: I hate Verizon. For our Tuesday Terror update we are going to look at three Podcasts with the Long War Journal’s Thomas Joscelyn & Bill Roggio. John Batchelor interviews them weekly for his show on Monday evening and the podcast drops in the morning. Typically,

Bullets

Al Qaeda and ISIS in the Shael, Advisors in Afghanistan, The Arsenal of Democracy and other Bullets

ByRon P. SchweryApril 20, 2020

The wife had the day off today. Her corona schedule has been crazy. I think she is working more hours now than before. Anyway, we spent the day running around as much as you can under the current conditions…Tractor Supply for chicken feed, the grocery store. It was a good

Medical

Monday Morning Medical: Blown Ear Drum

ByRon P. SchweryApril 20, 2020

Morning eh…there were lots of questions on the home school front today…I don’t know how common blown ear drums are for everyday folks, but I imagine it happens more often in our line of work than others. (I say our line of work with the full acknowledgement that I have not

Uncategorized

New York Times: China Limited the Mekong’s Flow. Other Countries Suffered a Drought.

ByRon P. SchweryApril 19, 2020

New research show that Beijing’s engineers appear to have directly caused the record low levels of water in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Last night was a big night in the household. Two, three and four spent the night outside in a tent by themselves. It was a

Book Discussion

Friday Book Discussion: The Dragons and the Snakes by Dr. David Kilcullen

ByRon P. SchweryApril 18, 2020

This project is getting off to more of a rocky start that I would have anticipated. I am still able to keep up with all of my fatherly and husband duties…the kids are still fed but man the launch has not been as smooth as I would have hoped. The intent is for this book

ByRon P. SchweryApril 17, 2020

Nothing too weird to report on the corona-virus lock down today. The kids all had a relatively light day of school work and I have given up on trying to fix some of their technical issues. I do have a trip to the ABC Store in my future. For today’s Speaker Series publication

Tuesday Terror Update: ISIS vs. Al Qaeda

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

Book / Paper Discussion: Best Practices in Counterinsurgency

Counterinsurgencies: Che Guevara

Tuesday Terror Update: The Wheel of Jihad

Al Qaeda and ISIS in the Shael, Advisors in Afghanistan, The Arsenal of Democracy and other Bullets

Monday Morning Medical: Blown Ear Drum

New York Times: China Limited the Mekong’s Flow. Other Countries Suffered a Drought.

Friday Book Discussion: The Dragons and the Snakes by Dr. David Kilcullen

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