Category: History, Conflict, Terrorism, Political Talk and Anecdotes

I wasn’t sure what was happening with Horațiu Potra’s mercenaries in the DRC since he’s been very publicly meddling in Romanian elections and politics and getting arrested. Voila, yesterday’s news, his contractors are in the DRC and continue to operate. My understanding is that Potra’s company called ‘Congo Protection’ works…

Video: French Embassy being attacked in Kinshasa, DRC. The French seem to get it a lot in Africa these days. It is more likely than not that Moscow is behind these attacks on any Western embassies in Kinshasa in some way or another. LinkedIn posting: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/royce-de-melo-39172813_frenchembassy-drc-diplomaticmission-activity-7290079689581174785-7ukt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop Reuters — Summary Also…

Susan Keating, publisher of Soldier of Fortune magazine, has given me a vote of confidence on LinkedIn in her article ‘So You Want To Be a War Correspondent’. I’m very flattered and grateful. LinkedIn link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/susan-katz-keating-4437b07_so-you-want-to-be-a-war-correspondent-activity-7287898864706064385-1D15?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop Link to the article, ‘So You Want to Be a War Correspondent’: https://sofmag.com/how-to-be-a-war-correspondent/ –RdM

Had a great meeting and conversations with US Ordnance. It’s a busy booth. I have done work for US Ordnance in Canada. US Ordnance weapon systems are well known worldwide. They are the last makers of the Mk19 automatice grenade launcher, which is extensively used in Ukraine. They also have…

It’s quite the event. SHOT Show was originally a hunting and outdoor trade show that has become something far bigger, now involving and covering interests from law enforcement, the security and defence industry, high tech, and more. “The SHOT Show, which is an acronym for “Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show”, is an American annual trade show for the shooting sports, hunting, outdoor…

For those interested in firearms, here’s a weird but fascinating video about the reliability of the AK-47 and how you can get it to work if parts and bits are missing. …I’m not sure about the stick thing, haha. But if you look carefully, the stick has rubber bands attached….

The cracks are beginning to show in Sharaa’s and HTS-dominated Syria with Alawite tensions. It suprises me that so many with an interest in counterterrorism, terrorism, especially how it relates to the Middle East (and geopolitics), and Islamist ideologies and movements, there appears to be so little interest in the…

See the original posting found on Bassatine News, in what was or is the only Jewish newsletter reporting directly from Egypt: http://bassatine.net/stayput.php I’m not sure if what the number of Egyptian Jews are today. Below is the text of the article: WE’RE STAYING PUT Egypt’s dwindling Jewish community is fighting…

Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah seen in a video apparently recorded at the presidential palace in N’Djamena. Photo from Facebook and BBC News. This is almost Monty Python-ish. Curious. It almost sounds like some cult group like attack with knives and no guns, like a suicide mission. Nineteen dead, less the…

Below is a scanned copy of an old amusing article I wrote for Soldier of Fortune’s magazine’s ‘I Was There’ page called ‘First Chill’ about my uncle’s first experience in combat in Mozambique during the Colonial War. The story is written in the first person. When it was published, there…