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1920. Mussolini's Blackshirts kill 11 political opponents in Bologna. 1927. Police officers in civilian clothes joined mine security guards in machine gunning striking workers at the Columbine Mine in Colorado, killing nine; no one was charged. 1942. ALCAN (Alaska-Canada) Highway is …
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Special Operations: A Decade of CIA Operations in Ukraine
2024年3月9日 · Both the FSB and SVR regularly bump into CIA operations inside and outside Russia. CIA operations inside Ukraine and Russia increased after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. This was particularly the case with joint Ukrainian-CIA operations which became more extensive and intense. The CIA had helped Ukraine prepare for this in several ways.
Austin Bay's On Point2024 - StrategyPage
On Point: 2024. Six Strategic Challenges For 2024. Yemen's Houthis Were Always Terrorists. Theater Of Panic Repeat: Putin's Russia Threatens World War III and Alaska. The Navy Needs Small but Highly Capable Warships. Time To Punish Iran's Ayatollah Regime For Its War On The World. The Not So Secret Preludes to Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine.
Artillery: 155mm Hyper Velocity Projectile Scores A Hit
September 28, 2020: The U.S. Air Force recently tested the 155mm version of its HVP (Hyper Velocity Projectile) fired from an army M-109 self-propelled 155mm howitzer. The HVP hit an incoming target drone standing in for a Russian cruise missile. The target was destroyed. In 2018 the U.S. Navy fired twenty of the smaller (127mm) HPV projectiles ...
Weapons: First New American Assault Rifle Since the 1960s
September 8, 2023: The U.S. Army has placed orders for the new M7 6.8mm assault rifle and M250 6.8mm LMG (Light Machine-Gun). These new weapons replace 1960s-era 5.56mm ammunition that also required a new generation of assault rifles and LMGs. The M-16/M-4 assault rifles and M248 LMGs will remain in service but the infantry and SOCOM (Special Operations Command) troops will be equipped with ...
Special Operations: Ukrainian Operators - StrategyPage
2021年7月19日 · Airborne Forces (paratroopers) and special operations forces (Spetsnaz) have historically been a major source of pride to Russians, going back to the '70s and '80s, when 30,000 Spetsnaz and airborne troops constituted the most effective troops available during the 1979-1989 Afghan War. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia ...
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Special Operations: Ukraine Releases The Kraken - StrategyPage
2022年12月9日 · Kraken is the latest special operations force created to deal with the changing situation in Ukraine. This is a pattern that first appeared back in 2014 when the Russians sized Crimea in early 2014 and later went after two eastern provinces (Donetsk and Luhansk) collectively known as Donbas (Donets Basin). Donetsk had about two million people ...
Military Book Review Strategy Shelved: The Collapse of Cold War …
A Navy in Need of a Strategy? A research analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses, Dr. Steven T. Wills states that the US Navy last devised a coherent overall strategy against a peer naval actor between 1982 to 1994.