June 2014 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Benghazi lawfare delays

The delay in picking up the Benghazi ringleader has now been made clear. He was booked doing interviews with so many news outlets that it took the Delta operators a year to get an appointment with him. Which actually makes more sense than the comical...

Published Fri, Jun 20 2014 2:45 AM by BLACKFIVE

Photo - Sub Return

Sailors aboard the USS Pennsylvania handle lines as the ballistic missile submarine moors in Bangor, Wash., June 14, 2014. The Pennsylvania completed a 140-day strategic deterrent patrol, a new record for the longest strategic deterrent patrol completed...

Published Thu, Jun 19 2014 10:55 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Book Review - "The Hydra Protocol" by

The following book review is a special for BlackFive readers provided by Elise Cooper. You can read all of our book reviews by clicking on the Books category link on the right side bar. The Hydra Protocol by David Wellington is a suspenseful, gripping...

Published Thu, Jun 19 2014 1:53 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Books

Benghazi suspect captured

That is some good news. U.S. Special Operations forces captured one of the suspected ringleaders of the terrorist attacks in Benghazi in a secret raid in Libya over the weekend, the first time one of the accused perpetrators of the 2012 assaults has been...

Published Tue, Jun 17 2014 3:58 AM by BLACKFIVE

Marines head back to Iraq

Many people raved that we “won” the war on Iraq and pulled out, now well over 500 Marines just entered the Persian Gulf along with a carrier as many news reports say. With everything going on in Afg (yes, we are still at war) we go back into a war zone...

Published Mon, Jun 16 2014 1:23 PM by BLACKFIVE

Tal Afar Falls

Better, WP. The fall of the religiously mixed town of Tal Afar to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) raised the specter of deepening sectarian violence. It came as the U.S. government announced that it was drawing down staff at its embassy in...

Published Sun, Jun 15 2014 1:18 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Dear Washington Post...

A lot of us have actually been to Iraq, so when you report that a town has been taken by one side or the other, tell us which town! A Shiite militia seized control of an Iraqi town Saturday, blunting the advance toward Baghdad of radical Sunni fighters...

Published Sun, Jun 15 2014 3:02 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Colby Buzzell on Mosul

Five conversations in Colby's mind, before and after the return of Isis to Iraq http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/13/mosul-iraq-war-return-isis

Published Sat, Jun 14 2014 2:31 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

ISIS Leader Released from Gitmo in 2009

Vows, "I'll see you in New York" http://news.yahoo.com/isis-leader-see-york-041419172--politics.html

Published Sat, Jun 14 2014 2:20 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

You can't end wars; they are won or lost

President Obama is learning a lesson about strategy, but the price is beig paid by the Iraqi people (and the Afghans for that matter). You can declare a war to be over, or ended responsibly, and then pat yourself on the back for it. But if the enemy doesn't...

Published Thu, Jun 12 2014 10:31 AM by BLACKFIVE

The Hubris and Incompetence of Barack Obama

Leadership is hard. Harry Truman wasn’t the best president ever, but at least he knew his job. When it came time to decide in 1945 after the Potsdam Declaration, "Bomb or No bomb," he made the call and did the right thing, which was a very hard...

Published Thu, Jun 12 2014 3:23 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs, Caring For The Defenders, Bust Their Chops

DOD Uses Michael Durant Example to Justify Bergdhal Trade for Terrorists?!

Really?! The DoD counsel in the hearing was also the DoD counsel under the Clinton administration. His stunning admission: ...At the Bergdahl/Hagel hearing going on in the House today, Democrat Rep. Adam Smith asked DoD General Counsel Stephen Preston...

Published Thu, Jun 12 2014 1:09 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

Not Quite "on the run"...

Published Wed, Jun 11 2014 11:06 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

Explaining Vox's Explainer on new Iraq civil war

Vox is the new project from Juicebox mafia alumni Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias and a collection of inexperienced indoctrinated acolytes. It is flogged as explanatory journalism, but that was highly unlikely to emerge from the progressive wonderland the...

Published Wed, Jun 11 2014 1:02 PM by BLACKFIVE

Actual intel reports from FOX Bergdahl story

Author Note: Since this story was reported on FOX by James Rosen last week, Bergdahl validated the part about being kept in a cage during his debrief. The SITREP detailing that from 2010 and the one from 2012 about Bergdahl's actions in captivity...

Published Wed, Jun 11 2014 12:53 PM by BLACKFIVE

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