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Michael Hastings Crash Revisited: The Modern Reality of Connected Cars
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (303+ words) BY Galen Fries / December 28, 2025 A 2025 relook at Michael Hastings" fatal crash that respects the lack of proof for assassination while explaining how modern connected-car technology makes certain "what if" scenarios technically plausible. Right, Jack. But what if we"re shrugging…...
Data Is the Battlefield. US Cyber Command Brings the Artillery
4+ week, 1+ day ago (207+ words) BY Galen Fries / November 29, 2025 USCYBERCOM is the quiet joint warfighting machine that keeps America's digital guns loaded, shields the Pentagon's networks from hostile eyes, and hits back in cyberspace long before most people know a fight even started. Bottom Line…...
Trinity of Chaos: A Cybercrime Syndicate Hitting Global Corporations
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (350+ words) Truth from the Trenches Since 2012 BY Galen Fries / November 15, 2025 Trinity of Chaos is what happens when three already dangerous crews fuse their social engineering, cloud access, and massive credential troves into a single profit driven extortion machine aimed straight at…...
Russian Hacker Linked to GRU Arrested in Phuket
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (246+ words) Truth from the Trenches Since 2012 BY Benjamin Reed / November 14, 2025 The arrest of a GRU-linked cyber-operative down the road was a reminder that the world's sharpest edges have a way of slipping quietly into ordinary places. Thai police detain alleged GRU…...
The Bolduc Brief: National Security - Divisiveness, Political Ineffectiveness, and Lack of Leadership
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (197+ words) Truth from the Trenches Since 2012 BY Donald Bolduc / November 13, 2025 The shutdown may be over, but the same entrenched division, weak leadership, and political gamesmanship that brought us to the brink are still eroding our national security from the inside out....
The Bolduc Brief: National Security - The Failure of Leadership, The Trump Administration, Congress and the Government Shutdown
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (156+ words) Truth from the Trenches Since 2012 BY Donald Bolduc / November 10, 2025 As a military commander who swore to provide for those under my charge, I find it unforgivable that elected leaders would let a shutdown " and the halting of SNAP benefits " become…...
The CIA's Classified 'Skyhook' Program
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (289+ words) To accomplish this feat safely, pilots had to catch the line beneath the balloon and immediately pull up; otherwise, the passenger on the other end of the line would find himself dragged along the ground at 130 miles per hour " which…...
Delta Force Tales: Geo Hand Explores the Dark Web
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (1419+ words) And that, my friends, is just the tip of the iceberg" just the tip, you see, because we all know damn well that the greatest mass of an iceberg is that portion residing under the surface of the sea" that…...
SOFREP Pic of the Day: USS Enterprise As Seen Through Periscope of a German U-Boat
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (269+ words) Built between 1969 and 1975, eighteen of these submarines hit the water, with the U-24 being one of them. Many of the class were later upgraded to the Type 206A standard in the "90s, receiving improved sonar, electronics, and weapons systems. They stayed in service…...
How the OSS Shaped Special Operations Forces and the CIA of Today
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (548+ words) Just a few short months after Pearl Harbor, the United States was locked in a global war with both the empire of Japan and Nazi Germany. And the country had no formal intelligence gathering apparatus. So, in July 1942, President Franklin…...