by Dave Patterson | Jan 13, 2023 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
A couple of days after an ISIS-K suicide bomber killed 13 US service members at the Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan, the Biden administration announced a drone strike had killed what was thought to be a terrorist planning another...
by Dave Patterson | Aug 2, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Terrorism
In a counterterrorism drone strike in the skies over Afghanistan, the CIA has killed al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri. A coordinator of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Zawahiri took part in planning, coordinating, and supplying...
by Dave Patterson | Jan 21, 2022 | Articles, Exclusive Member, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
A drone attack by the Iran-backed Yemeni Houthi militia on Monday, January 17, hit an oil tanker storage area killing three people in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). The airstrike also caused a fire at Abu Dhabi’s international airport. It was another of many...
by Dave Patterson | Sep 20, 2021 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
There may be nothing more terrible in the heat of battle than to realize you have mistakenly killed friendlies. What appeared to be a rapid and precise operation to defeat another horrendous ISIS-K attack on service members at the Kabul airport turned out to be a...
by Liberty Nation Authors | Sep 18, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
On August 29, the U.S. launched a drone strike that was reported to have killed a would-be suicide bomber in the Afghan capital, Kabul. For a short, single moment in time, the administration appeared competent and decisive. But then the narrative began to unravel....