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La localité rurale ainsi que la majeure partie du territoire de la région de Koursk ont été reconquises par une contre-offensive éclair des soldats de Moscou, lancée un peu plus de sept mois après la spectaculaire incursion de l'armée ukrainienne en territoire russe. Les villages y ont pris des allures fantômes et la menace des drones est permanente. De notre envoyée spéciale à Soudja, Anissa El Jabri (avec Anna Chargatova pour la production)« Aujourd'hui est un bon jour pour travailler à peu près tranquillement. Comme il y a un vent très fort, les drones ennemis ne peuvent pas voler aussi vite et aussi près que d'habitude, et ils ont besoin de plus de temps pour viser et tirer. Et comme c'est aussi un jour très clair, pour nous, c'est aussi plus facile de les voir venir et de les abattre ».Au volant de la voiture, l'imam de Koursk, qui a rejoint les forces russes du groupe tchétchène Akhmat, connaît le trajet par cœur : en coopération avec les autorités locales, ces troupes font la route chaque jour pour nourrir les rares civils encore présents sur place, évacuer ceux qui le souhaitent ou dont l'état le nécessite. L'imam Issa reste pourtant concentré. Les soldats de Moscou ont repris position sur leurs terres, mais chaque trajet sur cette route encore interdite aux civils reste dangereux. Sur le bas-côté, quelques cadavres de vaches ou de cochons, des véhicules militaires calcinés ; dans les champs, impressionnantes, des mines anti-tanks, déposées « le 8 mars, pour bloquer tout mouvement de l'armée ukrainienne », dit Issa. « Des combats très intenses faisaient rage, des drones volaient, et tout ce qui bougeait explosait en même temps. De nombreux véhicules ont été touchés. Maintenant, les services dédiés retirent tout au fur et à mesure pour que nous puissions circuler ». La menace dans le ciel reste permanente. Comme tous les véhicules circulant sur cette route de Koursk en direction de Soudja, celui conduit ce jour-là est équipé d'un détecteur de drones.Dans la voiture, l'alarme qui signale l'approche d'un de ces engins se fait soudain très insistante. Cartouches spéciales en bandoulière et fusil anti-drones à portée de main à chaque instant, Islam explique : « Là, le détecteur est en train de nous signaler que nous sommes observés du ciel, qu'un drone se rapproche. À ce stade, il est probablement à environ un ou deux kilomètres de nous. C'est une distance très dangereuse. Les drones sont rapides, on en a repéré qui peuvent voler jusqu'à une vitesse de 140 km-heure. Mais ce n'est peut-être pas forcément un engin d'attaque, mais peut-être juste un drone de reconnaissance. Ceux-là vont beaucoup moins vite. »   Un porte-parole des « Spetsnaz », les forces spéciales tchétchènes, se présentant avec son nom de code « Dior », ajoute : « Pour les abattre, on utilise souvent des fusils de chasse, mais nous avons aussi un système de brouillage. Les drones volent sur des fréquences différentes selon le modèle. Il y en a un très grand nombre, très différents par la taille et la technique. Certains portent de très grosses charges sur de très longues distances. Ceux à fibre optique sont apparus plus récemment et sont particulièrement difficiles à contrer ».Le bip finit par s'éteindre… la tension par redescendre. À quelques kilomètres de Soudja apparaissent soudain sur les côtés de la route d'immenses piliers en bois et des hommes qui s'affairent à en placer d'autres. L'imam Issa décrypte la manœuvre : « Ils ont commencé ça il y a littéralement à peine deux-trois jours. Ils installent des poteaux en bois, un filet entre les deux côtés et recouvrent entièrement la route. Ça va ressembler à un corridor entièrement fermé par le haut, pour qu'un drone ne puisse pas le franchir. Bien sûr, un engin peut toujours larguer une charge et déchirer le filet, mais ça reste une aide, je dirais 70 % du temps.  Ça sauve quand même des vies ».Le procédé a déjà été repéré le mois dernier dans le Donbass, sur la route stratégique entre Bakhmout et Chassiv Yar, dans la région de Donetsk. Selon les observateurs, ce tunnel s'étend sur environ deux kilomètres, du jamais vu sur une telle longueur. Il viserait plus précisément à protéger les troupes russes des drones FPV lancés par l'armée ukrainienne.Soudja, avant la guerre et l'incursion ukrainienne, était une bourgade tranquille d'un peu plus de 5 000 habitants, à une centaine de kilomètres de la ville de Koursk, capitale de la région éponyme.  Une ville tournée vers l'agroalimentaire, avec une laiterie, un abattoir, une usine de transformation de la viande.Aujourd'hui, les traces des combats sont visibles à chaque coin de rue. Des tas de terres pour bloquer le passage des véhicules, des cratères de bombardement qui peuvent atteindre plusieurs dizaines de centimètres de diamètre. Quelques corps de soldats. Les ponts des routes de ravitaillement sont détruits : en ville, on les franchit désormais à pied, sur des barrières de fortune entremêlées au-dessus de l'eau. Par endroits, l'odeur de brûlé des bâtiments incendiés prend encore à la gorge et il faut parfois forcer l'imagination pour réaliser que sous un tas de gravats et de tôles se trouvait une maison. Le nombre de bâtiments épargnés par la violence des affrontements semble infime.Périodiquement, le son des combats qui se déroulent encore à plusieurs kilomètres se fait plus précis et plus fort. En quad, en mobylettes, en camion, ou tout simplement au pas de course, on croise dans les rues des soldats d'infanterie. Sur les murs des habitations, on distingue des graffitis insultant les autorités russes, d'autres à la gloire de l'armée ukrainienne, sans qu'il soit possible de vérifier de manière indépendante qui les a tracés et quand. On en trouve trace aussi sur la place centrale de la ville, très abîmée, avec sa statue de Lénine, traditionnelle dans les villes russes, quasi détruite.L'imam Issa, lui, n'imagine pas la ville redevenir vivable avant au moins un an.Dans les villages alentour, les mêmes scènes. Des rues désertes, presque fantômes, des vélos abandonnés en pleine rue, des portails mitraillés qui laissent entrevoir des pelouses ornées de nains de jardin, des toits détruits. Les plus âgés qui s'accrochent dans les maisons les moins abîmées sont une poignée. Les secouristes viennent frapper à leur porte pour vérifier qu'ils sont nourris et parfois leur montrer des vidéos de leurs proches leur demandant de les rejoindre, en sécurité, à l'intérieur des terres.Dans le village de Kazatchkaya Loknaya, Nina, babouchka de 87 ans, est encore coupée du monde, mais survit avec notamment l'électricité du générateur installé par les soldats « Je suis seule ici, raconte-t-elle, assise dans son salon.  Avant l'attaque, j'avais mes enfants et mes arrière-petits-enfants. Quand ils ont appris que les Ukrainiens arrivaient, ils ont pris les petits et sont partis. Mon fils est venu me chercher. Je lui ai dit : Sasha, je ne vais nulle part. Je resterai à la maison jusqu'à la fin. Je m'en fiche. C'était le 7 août… Et maintenant, cela fait presque huit mois. Les Ukrainiens m'ont nourrie, m'ont même apporté des médicaments… Et maintenant, les forces Akhmat sont là pour le faire. Sinon, je suis toute seule au milieu de nulle part. De toute façon, pourquoi devrais-je aller vagabonder ailleurs en Russie ? Personne ne m'a maltraitée, personne ne m'a fait de mal depuis le premier jour ». Nina pourtant pleure à l'évocation des bombardements, qu'elle décrit comme « très intenses, très effrayants, ma maison a tremblé tout le temps pendant sept mois ».  Sans informations, sans réseau là où elle vit, Nina découvre alors que des pourparlers sur un cessez-le-feu et une possible fin de conflit ont commencé. « Je souhaite tellement, tellement, tellement qu'il y ait une trêve », dit-elle alors. « Tout le monde souffre. Les jeunes comme les vieux… mais la jeunesse… je plains tellement la jeunesse ».

La localité rurale ainsi que la majeure partie du territoire de la région de Koursk ont été reconquises par une contre-offensive éclair des soldats de Moscou, lancée un peu plus de sept mois après la spectaculaire incursion de l'armée ukrainienne en territoire russe. Les villages y ont pris des allures fantômes et la menace des drones est permanente. De notre envoyée spéciale à Soudja, Anissa El Jabri (avec Anna Chargatova pour la production)« Aujourd'hui est un bon jour pour travailler à peu près tranquillement. Comme il y a un vent très fort, les drones ennemis ne peuvent pas voler aussi vite et aussi près que d'habitude, et ils ont besoin de plus de temps pour viser et tirer. Et comme c'est aussi un jour très clair, pour nous, c'est aussi plus facile de les voir venir et de les abattre ».Au volant de la voiture, l'imam de Koursk, qui a rejoint les forces russes du groupe tchétchène Akhmat, connaît le trajet par cœur : en coopération avec les autorités locales, ces troupes font la route chaque jour pour nourrir les rares civils encore présents sur place, évacuer ceux qui le souhaitent ou dont l'état le nécessite. L'imam Issa reste pourtant concentré. Les soldats de Moscou ont repris position sur leurs terres, mais chaque trajet sur cette route encore interdite aux civils reste dangereux. Sur le bas-côté, quelques cadavres de vaches ou de cochons, des véhicules militaires calcinés ; dans les champs, impressionnantes, des mines anti-tanks, déposées « le 8 mars, pour bloquer tout mouvement de l'armée ukrainienne », dit Issa. « Des combats très intenses faisaient rage, des drones volaient, et tout ce qui bougeait explosait en même temps. De nombreux véhicules ont été touchés. Maintenant, les services dédiés retirent tout au fur et à mesure pour que nous puissions circuler ». La menace dans le ciel reste permanente. Comme tous les véhicules circulant sur cette route de Koursk en direction de Soudja, celui conduit ce jour-là est équipé d'un détecteur de drones.Dans la voiture, l'alarme qui signale l'approche d'un de ces engins se fait soudain très insistante. Cartouches spéciales en bandoulière et fusil anti-drones à portée de main à chaque instant, Islam explique : « Là, le détecteur est en train de nous signaler que nous sommes observés du ciel, qu'un drone se rapproche. À ce stade, il est probablement à environ un ou deux kilomètres de nous. C'est une distance très dangereuse. Les drones sont rapides, on en a repéré qui peuvent voler jusqu'à une vitesse de 140 km-heure. Mais ce n'est peut-être pas forcément un engin d'attaque, mais peut-être juste un drone de reconnaissance. Ceux-là vont beaucoup moins vite. »   Un porte-parole des « Spetsnaz », les forces spéciales tchétchènes, se présentant avec son nom de code « Dior », ajoute : « Pour les abattre, on utilise souvent des fusils de chasse, mais nous avons aussi un système de brouillage. Les drones volent sur des fréquences différentes selon le modèle. Il y en a un très grand nombre, très différents par la taille et la technique. Certains portent de très grosses charges sur de très longues distances. Ceux à fibre optique sont apparus plus récemment et sont particulièrement difficiles à contrer ».Le bip finit par s'éteindre… la tension par redescendre. À quelques kilomètres de Soudja apparaissent soudain sur les côtés de la route d'immenses piliers en bois et des hommes qui s'affairent à en placer d'autres. L'imam Issa décrypte la manœuvre : « Ils ont commencé ça il y a littéralement à peine deux-trois jours. Ils installent des poteaux en bois, un filet entre les deux côtés et recouvrent entièrement la route. Ça va ressembler à un corridor entièrement fermé par le haut, pour qu'un drone ne puisse pas le franchir. Bien sûr, un engin peut toujours larguer une charge et déchirer le filet, mais ça reste une aide, je dirais 70 % du temps.  Ça sauve quand même des vies ».Le procédé a déjà été repéré le mois dernier dans le Donbass, sur la route stratégique entre Bakhmout et Chassiv Yar, dans la région de Donetsk. Selon les observateurs, ce tunnel s'étend sur environ deux kilomètres, du jamais vu sur une telle longueur. Il viserait plus précisément à protéger les troupes russes des drones FPV lancés par l'armée ukrainienne.Soudja, avant la guerre et l'incursion ukrainienne, était une bourgade tranquille d'un peu plus de 5 000 habitants, à une centaine de kilomètres de la ville de Koursk, capitale de la région éponyme.  Une ville tournée vers l'agroalimentaire, avec une laiterie, un abattoir, une usine de transformation de la viande.Aujourd'hui, les traces des combats sont visibles à chaque coin de rue. Des tas de terres pour bloquer le passage des véhicules, des cratères de bombardement qui peuvent atteindre plusieurs dizaines de centimètres de diamètre. Quelques corps de soldats. Les ponts des routes de ravitaillement sont détruits : en ville, on les franchit désormais à pied, sur des barrières de fortune entremêlées au-dessus de l'eau. Par endroits, l'odeur de brûlé des bâtiments incendiés prend encore à la gorge et il faut parfois forcer l'imagination pour réaliser que sous un tas de gravats et de tôles se trouvait une maison. Le nombre de bâtiments épargnés par la violence des affrontements semble infime.Périodiquement, le son des combats qui se déroulent encore à plusieurs kilomètres se fait plus précis et plus fort. En quad, en mobylettes, en camion, ou tout simplement au pas de course, on croise dans les rues des soldats d'infanterie. Sur les murs des habitations, on distingue des graffitis insultant les autorités russes, d'autres à la gloire de l'armée ukrainienne, sans qu'il soit possible de vérifier de manière indépendante qui les a tracés et quand. On en trouve trace aussi sur la place centrale de la ville, très abîmée, avec sa statue de Lénine, traditionnelle dans les villes russes, quasi détruite.L'imam Issa, lui, n'imagine pas la ville redevenir vivable avant au moins un an.Dans les villages alentour, les mêmes scènes. Des rues désertes, presque fantômes, des vélos abandonnés en pleine rue, des portails mitraillés qui laissent entrevoir des pelouses ornées de nains de jardin, des toits détruits. Les plus âgés qui s'accrochent dans les maisons les moins abîmées sont une poignée. Les secouristes viennent frapper à leur porte pour vérifier qu'ils sont nourris et parfois leur montrer des vidéos de leurs proches leur demandant de les rejoindre, en sécurité, à l'intérieur des terres.Dans le village de Kazatchkaya Loknaya, Nina, babouchka de 87 ans, est encore coupée du monde, mais survit avec notamment l'électricité du générateur installé par les soldats « Je suis seule ici, raconte-t-elle, assise dans son salon.  Avant l'attaque, j'avais mes enfants et mes arrière-petits-enfants. Quand ils ont appris que les Ukrainiens arrivaient, ils ont pris les petits et sont partis. Mon fils est venu me chercher. Je lui ai dit : Sasha, je ne vais nulle part. Je resterai à la maison jusqu'à la fin. Je m'en fiche. C'était le 7 août… Et maintenant, cela fait presque huit mois. Les Ukrainiens m'ont nourrie, m'ont même apporté des médicaments… Et maintenant, les forces Akhmat sont là pour le faire. Sinon, je suis toute seule au milieu de nulle part. De toute façon, pourquoi devrais-je aller vagabonder ailleurs en Russie ? Personne ne m'a maltraitée, personne ne m'a fait de mal depuis le premier jour ». Nina pourtant pleure à l'évocation des bombardements, qu'elle décrit comme « très intenses, très effrayants, ma maison a tremblé tout le temps pendant sept mois ».  Sans informations, sans réseau là où elle vit, Nina découvre alors que des pourparlers sur un cessez-le-feu et une possible fin de conflit ont commencé. « Je souhaite tellement, tellement, tellement qu'il y ait une trêve », dit-elle alors. « Tout le monde souffre. Les jeunes comme les vieux… mais la jeunesse… je plains tellement la jeunesse ».

A Walk In the Park  & Aya's Finest Hour.Book 3 in 18 parts, By FinalStand. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels.Professional, conscript, or volunteer, they all have run away from battle.A Note on terminology and the metaphor of Cael's WorldThe terms Weave of Fate and 'Weave ' are interchangeable. Weave expresses the intersection ~ the sieve that all the possible futures entered to create what we perceive as this 'now'. Fate is the keeper of the sieve. The Present is what is happening right now. It is that infinitesimal which we interpret as Reality.The Legend is what happens when the present is pulled back through the weave and becomes the past. It is called the Legend because, as the former presents fade into the past, they blur; each becomes less precise and more open to interpretations. (It is as if you were looking at one thing through a prism; as you shift your stance, what you see appears to change.) Within the Legend exist mystic creatures, divinities, demons, spirits, all the Paradises and Hells.The Endless Black Sands is the final resting place for all failed legends. It is the place where all is forgotten until even former realities break down into the Black Sands. That Alal found a way to cheat this doom and retrieved Shammuramat, was truly remarkable; even though Fate 'balanced accounts' with him by sending Ajax and his war band along that path as well.If you wonder how that was a balancing, consider this:The only people Alal cares for (in his own brutal fashion) are Shammy, now Sakura, and his only true offspring in 5,000 years, Cáel.Fate sent Ajax.With Ajax available to test Cáel, how could Alal resist the temptation to place one of the planet's greatest killer on a collision course with both of his loves in order to test Cáel?The Veil is a function of the Weave that protects sentient perception from perceiving the Weave and disguises the otherness of creatures of legend, unless they willingly allow themselves to be seen, which they usually do only so they can 'physically' interact with the Present. Some sentient minds, through horrific trauma such as the Augurs' self- poisonings, through the quirks of Fate via Holy Men, Mad Prophets and Doomsayers such as Temujin, or through the touch of legends such as Ishara, can sense the fluctuations in the Veil and the things behind it. Cáel, in truth, has been shaped by all three vehicles (Ishara, the Augurs and Temujin's legend.)Oblivion is what awaits Reality if the Weave ever fails beyond its ability to heal itself. This threat is what keeps the creatures of legend from constantly traversing the Weave. They have to weaken the Weave to do so or to use powers in Reality, the greater the distortion they create, the greater the weakening that occurs.End Note(Two days ago, with thirty days left)"That was fantastic, Lady Yum-Yum," I sighed."What did you just call me?" she panted softly. We were naked in one of our Task Force bedrooms that was actually used for sleeping, and now sex. I was still pressed against her reposed body, despite our recent exertions. She was on her stomach, arms stretched down her sides.She was sweaty and short of breath. She still had her wits about her and an awareness of our situation: victory sex, me still aroused and her fingernails scratching my thighs and buttocks. My equally sticky body was pressing down on her, even though I supported my weight with outstretched hands placed on either side of her shoulders."Lady Yum-Yum," I mumbled as I kissed the back of her head. "That was the first thing that sprang to mind when you introduced yourself." I could see her working that through her highly complex mind."When writing your memoirs, please remember to me refer to me that way," she began to flex her thighs and abdominal muscles, so that her ass was pumping against my hips."Only if this helps persuade you to give me a repeat performance.""I'll consider,," she purred, then paused to catch her breathe. "You are in phenomenal shape, young man. Do any of your other lady-loves have pet names?""Nope," I grunted as I withdrew.She had teased me with anal sex hints repeatedly, yet never delivered. She liked the game and the power she wielded. My body being on top of hers was only an illusion of a tactical advantage. She knew me pretty well already. I wasn't the kind of guy who would use physical strength to overwhelm her vulnerable position. This being so, a cerebral skirmish only excited her more.We waged a war that was based on intakes of breath, the shimmying of muscles and the trembling of fatigued flesh. The prize for me was the winning. Lady Fathom Worthington-Burke played tricky-clever, but I was better. And at times like this, she admitted it. She gave me what I wanted. I rolled her.Straight, face-to-face fucking. The Lady's pulsar gaze trapped my vision. She smiled, grudgingly at first, then more and more sensually as my glans returned to her g-spot that it had scouted out earlier. This was 'surrender by the Fathom method'. She gave me what I wanted, so I took what I wanted, and pleasured her at the same time."Mmm, you are a bad, bad boy," she lapsed into her trashy West-End Londoner accent. It was perfect and an erotic whiplash when added to her native, refined manner of speech. This wasn't a trick this time, it was a treat. It was a gift, reciprocated. The tactile sensation of her cervix becoming a soft, spongey chalice for my final penetrations was icing on an all-so-luscious cake.I tendered her a tribute worthy of my first love, Dr. Kimberly Geisler. It was strange to find a woman like her. Outside of Kimberly, I had found only one other woman who graciously offered her ultimate pleasure paean to the hundreds of lovers who had become before. That other woman, it still floored me, was Buffy Du, no, Buffy Ishara, First of my House."Oh!" and several heartbeats later, "Cáel!" several hissed series of breathes and then, "Goddess! You are better than good!"Two thoughts collided within me:A) I had never seen a more controlled orgasmic explosion in my life. I was going to have to tell Buffy about this, once we were safely in bed. If it was office talk, she'd punch me through a window and that would make Aya cry. I couldn't have that.B) Goddess? I thought she was Anglican. This needed further study. This treatment was really nice. I leaned in, kissed her. Lady Yum-Yum smiled. "Take me to the shower. Play time is over, Cáel," and she was back to all business."You are treating me like a fleshy vibrator," I pointed out."But you are a very finely-trained, fleshy vibrator, you wonderful boy," she stroked my cheek. "Shower! Now!" So, like a Good Boy, International Merchant of Death and Chosen Son of a Divine Amazon Goddess, I slid off her, then cradled her in my arms as I rose from our totally trashed mattress.I didn't smile when it was confirmed that I wasn't carrying her out of any romantic after-coitus gesture. She couldn't walk. Woot! It took a bit of effort to get us into the walk-in shower and to get the water just perfect, all while keeping her cradled. She helped out by keeping her arms tightly around my neck."Cheeky bastard," she whispered in my ear. "You are gloating." Then she nibbled on my earlobe for good measure."Damn right," I did gloat as I let her slide down to her feet. "You are pretty sweet for an Old Chick." She wasn't angry, oh no."If you were trying to get me to say, 'I'll get you next time," she licked, nipped and sucked on my nipple as if I was the one with the mammaries in this relationship, "it worked." Double-Woot! I was going to get that damn four-way! I did coax a vigorous shower-quickie out of my Lady. Afterward, she shifted herself so she could get under one of the steaming showerheads."Cáel, why didn't you use a condom," she mused. Gak!"You aren't on Birth Control?" I panicked. She laughed at me."No. I've never been a fan of hormones replacement. I like the way I am. Do you expect the women to do all the anti-pregnancy measures?""No," I gulped."Don't' be so worried," she laughed. "We had unprotected sex one time. The odds are astronomical that an 'oops' happened, right?" Yes, it was a single sexual encounter, but included three firings of the one-eyed hydra, sigh."You are asking a man who has five children on the way, Fathom," I cautioned her."Oh, I'll update my files and make an appointment to seen a local, reliable O B G Y N," she slipped back into her unflappable British resolve. "Get along. I need to get cleaned up," she cupped my scrotum, ", again. So scoot." I scooted.I had updated my condom supply despite the forbiddance Dot Ishara, my Matron Goddess, beamed to me from the Other Side. She could only complain so much. I'd upped my selection of fortune cookies and added a fresh raisin chocolate brownie for my next visit with her. I had to get over to the other side of the floor to get a fresh shirt, and boxers.Yum-Yum had ripped off my shirt (a little kinky) and boxers (a little painful). I wasn't going commando, so I decided to quick step it before something important happened that required me to yank yet another solution out of my sexually-fueled creative imagination.How Lady Yum-Yum and I ended up in bedThe Secret Societies' long awaited war had begun in Africa and in India. The Amazons couldn't effectively reinforce these two homeland regions. No, my people's edge came from my stupid stunts (e.g., the fight outside that club in Chicago), the judicious application of a few kind words and a whole lot of targeted killing on my part along with that of my Amazons.Those actions convinced the Booth-gan (aka the Thuggee, but we no longer say that because it irritates them) and the Coils of the Serpent to toss in their lot with their local Amazons. They did the whole 'hostage exchange' thing as well. Two children from each side. That was a no-brainer on my part. All three concerned parties were willing to let their adults die if necessary. Their children were another matter.In Asia, the Seven Pillars had made only minimal progress. We now suspected the 7P had planned to roll over the three of the 9 Clans that were in their Sphere of Influence, the now 6 Ninja Families, the Black Lotus and the Booth-gan in rapid succession. A preemptive strike against both the Khanate and the Ninja were supposed to cripple those two factions.Against the Khanate, that had been a dismal failure. In Nippon, the Ninja were in dire straits and would be decades recovering from the original 7P blitz. But the combination of US black ops help and the infusion of Amazons and Okinawans had staved off extinction for the moment. Strategically, these failed actions were tying down 7P resources that the largest Secret Society had planned to move elsewhere.In China, the Black Lotus exhibited the same resilience and deceptiveness they'd shown in combating the Seven Pillars by themselves for the past 65 years. The chaos gripping the PRC was a blessing from the Ancestors, the four sacred spirits (lung/dragons, phoenix, unicorn and tortoise), and the nine entities (I now really had to know this stuff.) Word that a 'dragon' had appeared in the West had only heightened their desire to aid in our new alliance.Those factors meant a reprieve for India. As the 7 Pillars began ramping up their operations; increasing racial tensions, minor terrorist action and military and industrial sabotage; the Booth-gan and Amazon united resources and purpose. The Booth-gan would assassinate 7P operatives and pawns while the Amazons would hit 7P front companies and businesses based out of the People's Republic of China. (This activity also helped ratchet up India-PRC tensions and anti-PRC public sentiment in India.)In Africa, the Condotteiri had squandered precious hours reallocating resources before launching their assaults. Like everyone but the 7P, they had been caught flat-footed by the renewal of the Secret War. The Coils of the Serpent had never been overly antagonistic toward the Condos, since their interests rarely collided. The same went for the Coils and the Amazons.Two factors inspired a deep Amazon-Coil bond. They were both groups with deep African roots and a shared Central-Western African spirituality. Added to that was the growing power of the Coils of the Serpent in the past fifty years. Their main opponents had been the Illuminati who had a Eurocentric view. Pan-Africanism was in the Coil's best interest, but ran contrary to European economic interests.Long term, allying with the African Amazons was a good investment for the Coils. The 9 Clans relationships had already proved to be advantageous on multiple occasions in the past. The leaders of the Coils knew their power was rising with the fortunes of Sub-Saharan Africa. To them, the rise of the PRC and the Seven Pillars was a looming threat in the East.They had been handed a golden opportunity to deal with this enemy before the enemy was ready to deal with them. They had been 'gifted' with over 2000 highly-skilled, fanatical Amazon warriors as stealthy muscle to add to their own, more subtle arsenal. For the Amazons, it was access to continent wide clandestine intelligence network that could unmask their enemies' hiding places.The Condotteiri wiped out an Amazon freehold in Cameroon and a few Coils safe houses in Lagos, Nigeria. In the Republic of Mali, over 250 Condo mercenaries were slaughtered at a 'secret' installation and their armory was looted. Ebola kept breaking out in the West. The dominant regional powers, the Republic of the Congo and Nigeria, were tottering as a result of decades of economic mismanagement, civic, ethnic, tribal and religious strife, corruption and unreliable militaries.The scene was ripe for a secret conflict as well as public carnage. For the Joint International Khanate Interim Taskforce (JIKIT), this presented a dilemma. They were involved with a growing global struggle that went far beyond the Khanate and Central Asia. Their secret society allies strenuously objected to bringing any more 'outsider' people into the group.Handing over covert intelligence to other governmental agencies in the US and UK, then telling them they wouldn't divulge their sources went over like scuba diving with cement goulashes. Explaining to upper level bigwigs that they had a 'trust-based' team went nowhere. Those officials didn't care about a bunch of domestic/international criminals' sensibilities.They wanted names and faces. They wanted addresses, phone taps and bank account numbers. It would all be 'Secret', 'Top Secret', or 'Eyes Only'. It would all be vulnerable to all kinds of governmental subpoenas too. No threats were made from 'my' side. They'd killed more people than the Black Death and the lives of a few thousand bureaucrats (and their families) in London and Washington D.C. didn't mean shit to them.Selena did offer to kidnap some family members to get the message across. Javiera put her hands over her ears and began singing 'la-la-la' as she stormed out of the room. Lady Fathom suggested that we arrange a private meeting with the UK Prime Minister and the US President. It took a few seconds for Mehmet and Javiera to realize she wasn't kidding.That was a nearly impossible task, which on this taskforce meant we had to give it a shot. Let's just say that the US Attorney General, Eric Holder and Chairman John Jay of the British Joint Intelligence Committee thought their respective representative had lost her God-damn mind. I went to the Khanate for help.Twenty-four hours later Azerbaijan, Turkey, Tajikistan, Armenia and Georgia (yes, two tiny Christian nations) joined the Khanate. The integration of the first two nations had been in the works since the formation of the Turkic Council in 2009. For me, Temujin upped the time table strictly for our benefit. Turkey and Azerbaijan became the two newest states within the Khanate.The third, Tajikistan was different and the shakiest addition. The unoccupied title of 'Khwarazm Shah' was created, suggesting the Iranian Tajiks had a special status inside the Khanate. 'Khwarazm' referenced the Khwarazmian dynasty that ruled the last of the great, Persian-led, Iranian Super-States and dated back to the 13th century AD. 'Shah' was Persian for King.The announced status of Armenia and Georgia was quite a bit different. They become 'Protectorates', i.e., semi-autonomous states within the Khanate who were 'vassal' states, responsible only to the Great Khan and his personal representative in the region (ah, that would be me.)So, the first three entries made sense, strong geographic, ethnic and/or religious ties, plus this was part of the Khanate's agenda anyway. But Armenia and Georgia? That was the doing of the other regional secret society, the Hashashin.The Caucasus Mountains were the backyard of the Hashashin. They knew who to blackmail, pinch and kill to make the 'take-over' possible. The main stumbling block was the long Khanate-Hashashin history: the Mongols had destroyed the historical stronghold of the Hashashin, Alamut, in 1256 CE. In a way, that disaster had transformed the sect, making it move away from their strict Nizārī Ismaili roots and into a more ethnically and religiously diverse group that was centered in the Caucasus region.Temujin made it clear to this group that he was making a deal under my auspices. Both Armenia and, Georgia (as well as the future Kurdistan, his plans for the creation of that last state were told to me under condition of secrecy) would be part of my palatinate principality (along with Hungary, if we ever got there). Riki Martin defined the terms for me: I was the voice of those three regions in the Khan's court.They wouldn't have to deal with Muslim Khanate officials. They would deal with me and 'my officials'. If the Khanate had a problem with my principality, they came to me to resolve the issue. That translated to me giving a nod to the existing regimes ruling in Armenia and Georgia (along with the infusion of a few Hashashin supporters.)Publically the future of those three political and ethnic entities would be confirmed later. The existing governments knew three things.1) I was that madman who had led the charge in Romania, clearly a man of bravery and humility. The odds were good that I was going to be a man they could rely on to adequately represent their interests with the government that currently mattered the most (aka The Khanate.)2) The Great Khan thought the world of me and in this nascent New World Order that meant way more than membership in NATO, or begging the United Nations to apply sanctions of dubious value.3) There would be a change of leadership by about 2040. Children of excellent ethnic parentage would succeed me in this ceremonial role in the region. These new princes and princesses would be the scions of the line of Nyilas and representatives of the various states (translation: I was going to be sexing it up with Georgian, Armenian and Kurdish members of the Hashashin).That would establish the three 'cadet' branches of House Ishara (Nyilas) (which I've listed because all three alphabets are so freaking beautiful) that could weave the Amazons, 9 Clans and the varying ethnic identities into a quilt that could stand together as a force in the Great Khan's inner circle. This new spate of aristocratic, 'Archer'-themed lineages would be:1.       Moisari, in Georgia.2.       Aġeġnajig, in Armenia.3.       Ram- alsham, in Kurdistan.This fiction made the key named entities happy. The combination of all these events applied another jolt to the heart of the global power structure (after all, Turkey was in NATO) and made the US and UK governments back off.By tidying up the world map, we'd brought our governmental chiefs to the chilling revelation that their sole conduit for insider information regarding the ongoing global calamity had reacted to their intransience by simply letting them be blind-sided by events. After the fact, Javiera and Lady Fathom relayed that message very clearly.

Putting lives back together after the battle.By FinalStand. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.Either you embrace Change and are destroyed by it, or you resist Change and are overwhelmed by it. What is your choice? (The Politics of 'Not' Being Dead)The rest of the trip was made in silence. They dropped us off at the edge of Miercurea Ciuc, home base of the 61st Mountain Troops Brigade, of Professor Loma and from whence all this craziness had originated. The meeting was already awkward before I arrived. It only got worse. Where to begin? Well, Russia, the United States, the UK, Romania, Hungary and Ireland were now all interested parties. And I had gained two personal distinctions:1.) Not only was I now heralded (and not really joking anymore) by some sources as Magyarorszag es Erdely Hercege, I was thereby re-awakening old nationalistic and territorial fears. Hungary didn't want a Prince, yet they did have an anemic Monarchist party. I might not be a Hapsburg (the last royal house of Hungary), but I could possibly be misconstrued as a long-lost Árpád scion (first King and founder of the Hungarian state), which would be even better.A crisis was looming in my ancestral crucible. It seems I already had a webpage in Budapest and six hundred "friends" within 24 hours. Worse, they had some pictures of me. Besides being 'of regal bearing' in the descriptions, I was sexy-hot and a soldier of fortune, a modern day 'Wild Geese, (Goose?)' who was wanted for questioning in a, or perhaps multiple, murder(s) involving either a duel over a woman's honor or killing a dozen armed gangsters who prayed on young innocents newly arrived to the big city.I wasn't alone. My trusty companion was A.) an ascetic Jedi Mistress (my own, personal Yoda), B.) an ancient witch schooled in the necromantic arts (apparently the reason I couldn't die), or C.) a Cold-War Era SMERSH (too much James Bond) assassin repaying an old debt to the descendent of an anti-communist partisan she'd killed years ago, eerily close to the truth for once. That, plus the TEK investigation, were Hungary's main points of concern involving me.2.) I was now a person involved in significant events for half a dozen nations on the world scene.Let's start with Romania. Okay, foremost, I was responsible for the single deadliest day in modern (post-WWII) Romanian Land Forces history. There was no covering this up. Close to one hundred men and women had died in combat, and then you added the forty-some dead Amazons, many of them apparently tortured, and this was a political and public relations nightmare.No one doubted their troops behaved heroically. That wasn't the problem. The political conundrum was how could they explain Ajax and his fifty seasoned killers penetrating into central Romania with no one being aware of the danger? A few politicians wanted to blame Székely nationalists (by that, they meant the ethnic minority who 'vaguely' wanted Transylvania to rejoin Hungary), except they had me, the Hungarian Prince, leading the charge.Life would have been so much easier for them if I had died. Yes, I could read the minds of those politicians. Screw a girl, then her younger sister, and then his wife, who all say they love me, and you'll recognized the emotional intent a father directs your way. (I'd only done that once, and once was enough.) I was getting that vibe again.Unfortunately for them, I wasn't dead and three big time foreign governments (and Ireland) seemed really curious about me, my performance and my mortality. So dragging me out back for a firing squad wasn't going to happen. Riki Martin of the US State Department was there and she told me a representative of the US Military Mission was on his way up to debrief me. Russia's sexy military attaché was still on site and looking happy for some reason. Flaviu, who had some experience with me, was soon to be gone; replaced by some person who had some serious lettuce before his actual name and didn't know me from didly. Not good.The UK had one of their diplomats coming up as well, just so I didn't get lonely. They weren't driving up with the Irishman, or the American. No one considers their carbon footprint in a crisis, I swear. But wait! It gets better. My Romanian Special Force dudes had brought the rest of their company (around a hundred new buddies) with them, they seriously didn't want me to get homesick and wander off (because, you know, I liked living and freedom).The Romanian army shouldn't have worried. It seemed that there were some US Army Rangers with NATO in Kosovo, Albania, or Bosnia and Uncle Sam was expressing a desire for them to 'stop by'. Maybe they could share their C-130 with the British paratroopers who were equally concerned about my well-being. I just hoped everyone was going to play nice when the Spetsnaz arrived. Putin was suddenly (and surprisingly to me, anyway) my new pal. I had a feeling I'd soon be discovering my secret Russian heritage if I wasn't careful. I was thinking maybe I could squeeze an Order of Lenin, or a Hero of the Soviet Union out of him. I heard they both looked nice, were obsolete and came without an actual pension.If Katrina wouldn't let me write off this calamity as PTO, I was going to be irate. I was on the verge of having a large family to support after all, unless you considered me marrying a billionaire's heiress to be compensation enough. The only group involved who weren't trying to actually see me was the Khanate.Temujin most likely had some shamanistic mojo that would let him know if I croaked. That bit smacked of paganism, so it was kept under wraps because he had to appear dutifully Islamic for the masses. Still, some koumiss would have been nice. Heck, right then I could have gone for an 'atta boy', perhaps even a 'two thumbs up'.Oh yeah; the general of the 4th Romanian Division wanted me to stop by when I had the chance (if I didn't, he'd send men to kill me, or so it was insinuated). The 61st Mountain Troops was part of his division's combat command and if the General Staff went looking for someone to crucify, he was making damn sure it wasn't going to be him.It occurred to me that I could send a handsome-looking Spetsnaz (if there was such a thing) to go in my place. They were brother Slavs, right? I was sure that between the 'Fall of the Berlin Wall', Moldavian Independence and Romania joining NATO, they would have much to discuss. Out of the blue, Pamela smacked me on the back of my head, Jethro Gibbs' style. My 'more-evil Russian doppelganger' idea must have been poorly thought out.Before I could implement that silliness, or trigger the big brouhaha, there was a preamble: I had three compatriots. Of greater importance, I had three heavily armed/gravely-serious bodyguards who wouldn't surrender their weapons and/or abandon me. So I thought "play nice" thoughts to myself.Diplomacy, sovereignty and legality all reared their ugly heads. I wasn't really an Irish diplomat. My paperwork was still valid, but the Romanian government hadn't permitted my entry into their country under the standard diplomatic protocols. Ireland wanted to talk to me about that, why was I running around armed and killing people in two Central European countries? I was acting more like an Irish adventurer from the 17th century, than a genteel civil servant from the 21st.Then there was the niggling little complication that involved me, my friends and our criminal possession of military-grade hardware. Chaz had the dubious excuse of being an official British government agent on assignment. That meant he could hope for a prisoner exchange within the next decade. Rachel and Pamela were private citizens with painfully sketchy proofs of US citizenship.When the Romanian legal system finished buggering them, it would be off to Hungry and its serious inquiry into all the dead bodies we'd left in our wake. Who was I kidding? What I was really worrying about was how many members of the Romanian penal system would die when they escaped. Their flimsy identities gave no clue to how dangerous they actually were. Hell, they'd beat me home.I had the added difficulty of Ireland and their questions about who the fuck I was and why I had their gold filigree on something I didn't deserve sitting snugly in my back pocket.So first off, this new band of 'Eagles' wanted to disarm and separate us."Don't insult me," I scoffed. "I am your Prince. Don't make me explain it to your widow.""I'm not married," the Lieutenant snarled back, daring me."Well, rush out and marry somebody. I haven't got all day. We don't want me to be caught in an idle boast now do we?" I grinned. Verbal sparring apparently wasn't in his repertoire."What?""Shut the fuck up, Carl," Chaz blithely inserted himself into the conversation."But you don't even speak Romanian," I countered. "How do you even know what I said?" The Romanians didn't know English, but they knew Carl. The tension between us ebbed."By the expression on the officer's face, Hercege," he winked. "It's universal to the brotherhood.""Who is he with?" The officer questioned me."You and he are the same," I answered."You cannot go any farther armed," he returned to his mission parameters."I don't envy you going in and telling the Colonel to come out here, but so be it," I held my ground."We could kill you and take them off your corpses," he studied my reaction."You are the second handsome man to tell me that today," I shook my head. "I'll tell you what I told him: 'you sure are cute, just not my type'." Pause then laughter."You are a madman," the lieutenant snorted. "I'll go talk to the Colonel."I was a jerk, loved maidens and was a master of bullshit. Did that make me a modern day Minotaur? The lieutenant came back out, then ushered me inside; Riki had to wait for the moment. He motioned my team come along. In the staff room of the 61st were a handful of officers and several suits."Mr. Nyilas," the Colonel gazed upon me. "I don't know what to make of you.""You and my Mother both," I mumbled. Despite the somber atmosphere, a few of the men and women let their moods lighten. They didn't hold my levity against me. I'd been there, on the battlefield and if humor was how I dealt with the experience, so be it."Ha," the greying man mused. "It is wholly my fault that I disregard most of the information you supplied my staff. You were unerringly accurate in your assessment of our enemy's capabilities. I know my men and I know how good they are. Veteran commanders can barely describe what my troops endured. You warned us and I didn't believe you. I was wrong and my men died because of it," he sighed."Sir, I do not believe you could have done anything else and succeeded," I interrupted."Succeeded? Is this what you consider success?" he hardened."Absolutely, Sir. Had you been slower to respond, those men would have most likely come here, to Miercurea Ciuc, and you would have fought the same battle, except your civilians would have been caught in the mix," I lied.If Ajax had escaped he'd have hunted me down. The location would have been irrelevant to him. How he knew where to be was a question for later and something to be presented to smarter, more experienced minds."Perhaps," he allowed. "They were heading north when we encountered them.The Alal in me was going back over the plan. It had been sound."Sir, you had every reason to doubt my military experience and to believe I exaggerated the threat. I was right and I take no joy in that, nor do I think anyone can hold your decisions against you," I stated.Now he gave a bitter laugh. Yes, they could hold all the deaths against him."We both know your men and women didn't die for their country, they killed for it. Quite frankly, I believe they killed some of the most vicious creatures to ever walk the face of the Earth. Fuck them for taking so many of us. Pile their bodies up and burn them," I suggested."They deserve no more Romanian soil than a spot to inter their ashes," I concluded."You do not sound like any diplomat I've ever met," the Colonel regained his gruff exterior."I'm not. I'm a fraud. I know as much about Ireland as I do about being a prince," I confessed. "That said, I didn't come here to kill anyone. I came to save lives.""How has that worked out for you?" a sitting woman in a suit questioned, in Romanian. She was slender, waspish and didn't sound comfortable speaking English, though she knew enough to get by."I am not a fortune-teller. I don't know how this is going to work out," I said."That's not what I asked," she prodded."Yes it was," I corrected her. "You wanted to know if I thought the price of your dead countrymen was worth the life of me, my friends and the lives of your countrymen I came to save. I can't measure the promise of those lives against the loss of all the dead. Don't play games with me. I'm have a degree in Philosophy and I eat morally ambiguous people like you for lunch."Pamela laughed aloud and lively."Kimberly and Katrina would be so proud of you right now," she chortled."I don't think you grasp the deep pit your find yourself in, Friend" the suit stayed chillingly calm."Oh, I think we all know we both screwed the pooch big time," I smirked. "The difference is me and mine are all happy to be alive after two of the most trying, fun-filled days of our lives. You want to throw us in prison. The Hungarians want to throw us in prison. I'm sure if I get back to the States, they will want to put us in prison too. Have I missed anyone?""I'm glad you will confess. It will make it easier on us," she grinned like sexy weasel."Wait," Rachel put a restraining arm on me. "I've wanted to say this for some time." To the weasel, "Blow it out your ass, dipshit.""Rachel, you don't know what she said," Pamela faux-gasped."I don't know the words, but I know what he meant," Rachel glowered. She missed Charlotte so much, she was willing to court pain and death. "I want to go back in time and slap her mother repeatedly for not strangling her in the crib. Is that succinct enough?""I apologize for ever meeting you, Rachel. I've brought you to a bad end," I gave her a tender look."It's okay. I never thought I'd live long enough to sleep with you anyway," she smiled back.Phifft, sigh. It was so sad that I recognized the sound of a low-caliber, silenced round."Listen up, dipshit," Pamela snickered. "Good one, Rachel. If you don't believe the next one is going through your skull, you clearly haven't been listening to us. You are fucking with the wrong monkeys. You have this bizarre idea that if I kill you, your government won't replace your worthless, bullet-riddled hide with someone we find more agreeable. My grandson sent in motion a half million combatants a few hours ago, he nearly died leading your soldiers against your nation's enemies and you want him to kiss your shoes as if you matter at all in the grand scheme of things?" she snarled. "Think again."No one was moving because Pamela had her silenced 22 Beretta out and pointed at Weasel's head. The SF's were caught flat-footed, as was everyone else. No guards came rushing in because the closed doors further muffled the sound. "I think this is a good time for us to get a drink," Chaz advised as he slowly reached out and lowered Pamela's gun hand.It was Pamela's gunboat diplomacy yet again. She hadn't meant to kill the women. Hell, she'd been a random target of opportunity. What Pamela had done was clear up the doubts in the room. Everyone on the staff could self-consciously let themselves off the hook for not being in the front lines, risking themselves with their comrades. Thanks to Pamela, they too had confronted violence.'Crazy' Grandma had fired off her piece and everyone sighed with relief when Chaz got her to lower it. I was pretty sure Chaz was in on this dangerous game. It resided with the Colonel as to how to resolve this hiccup in our dispute."Mr. Nyilas, why don't we take a walk outside, just the two of us?" he 'requested'.I nodded because I'm not always as dumb as I look. He was letting my people off with incredible temperance and I could honorably send them away. They'd scoped out the scene and believed I'd be safe enough. He, in turn, had an excuse to take a step away from his political watchdogs."I think that is for the best," I nodded. "Do you want me to leave my guns behind?""No, Mr. Nyilas, we might run into trouble out there and one of my Captains has suggested you are a man who can take care of himself," he replied. That was very nice of him indeed. If I did do something stupid, he had a ton of troops about who would make my regrets rather temporary. I decided to behave as if I had a passing acquaintance with sanity.His first questions were about the fighting at the ruins. I peppered our exchange with my interest in what had happened to the advance force of the 22nd. It was bleak news, yet the Colonel felt a sense of relief. He was coming to accept the lethality of his enemies, which in turn, led to an understanding, if not acceptance, of the carnage his men had been subjected to.He was in a cycle of context, grief, context. He'd gambled on me and men died. Once the battle was joined though, his soldiers had done precisely the right thing under considerable stress. He could be proud without dishonoring the dead. Only Pamela and I had engaged Ajax earlier. Only I had talked with the man.The Colonel had to look into my eyes to get the spark that led to understanding the mind and ruthlessness of his opponent. The name 'Ajax' never came up. That was more than a rational mind could accept at the moment. He knew his men had fought and killed the best and that helped him cope a tiny bit. Our interview ended when the first of the unwanted guests arrived.Only when I walked inside did it occur to me that this had been my first soldier to soldier chat. We had respected one another and discussed matters like men who knew the score. That was depressing in its own right. It was well passed nightfall when we went back inside. In our absence, Riki had started to redeem my existence. My salvation lay in Romantic Americana Symbolism.Translation: I was a Horatio Alger, a working class kid raised by a widower father, who earned a scholarship to a quiet New England college, graduated near the top of my class and gotten an excellent job (salary and benefits not disclosed). That was the was the first part of the Americana, proof positive that America was still the land of opportunity and a place where poor children could still reach the highest levels of society (umm, okay?).The second Americana Part: my Father had been murdered in a case of mistaken identity. Those heavily-armed foreign corporate/rogue governmental-sponsored terrorist mercenaries (their exact origin was shrouded in double-dealing misinformation) had ruthlessly murdered my Pa to cover up their error. Like any true Son of the American Dream, I had sworn vengeance.The Symbolic Part: My compassionate, understanding government (the good governmental servants of Republican Democracy, not the bad, hires the covert, secret, black-bag, unaccountable private contractors/ pawns of the Wall Street Elite bureaucrats) allowed me to participate in a multi-national taskforce. These selfless guardians of the freedom had formed a coalition which had hunted down the villains.With the priceless assistance of two Central European countries, who currently had to remain nameless (cough: Hungary and Romania), we'd achieved a final, violent confrontation in which my allies and I had emerged bloody, scarred, yet victorious. Once more, free men and women had answered the call of duty and some had made the ultimate sacrifice.See, I had a good government that cared enough about me to let me become a gun-toting menace to the civilized world. Like a Hollywood Western hero of the 1950's, 60's and 70's, I had taken personal revenge against the forces of wickedness, exit the railroad tycoons and cattle barons, enter the shadowy world of private security forces and uncontrolled corporate capitalism.

Hemmelighold har preget historien til Spetsnaz. I en ny bok får vi et helt nytt innblikk i disse mystiske styrkene. I denne episoden av Ugradert får du høre opptaket fra lanseringen av sjefsforsker Tor Bukkvolls bok om Spetsnaz som fant sted 14. januar på Lillestrøm bibliotek.

Kva var – og er – Spetsnaz? I denne podkasten fortel Tor Bukkvoll om den nye boka si, «Spetsnaz – A History of the Soviet and Russian Special Forces». Her dykkar han ned i den fascinerande historia til dei russiske spesialstyrkane. Boka avslører korleis Spetsnaz blei til som eit mottiltak etter utplasseringa av amerikanske atomvåpen, rett etter den andre verdskrigen. Spetsnaz er ei forkorting for «spetsialnoe naznatsjenie», ein russisk frase som kan omsetjast til «spesielt formål».

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Des militaires nord-coréens ont été engagés cette semaine dans des combats dans la région russe de Koursk, a affirmé mercredi le renseignement sud-coréen, après que les États-Unis eurent confirmé l'implication de Pyongyang dans la guerre lancée par la Russie contre l'Ukraine. Les chiffres sont invérifiables, mais l'Ukraine estime que 10 000 soldats nord-coréens sont déployés, une présence qui interroge les spécialistes quant à l'efficacité et l'objectif réel de cette troupe. Jamais la Corée du Nord n'avait envoyé de troupes à l'étranger. Selon le renseignement sud-coréen et américain, ces soldats sont désormais au feu. Équipés d'uniformes russes, ils seraient même en première ligne, mais qui sont ces combattants ? Premier élément de réponse avec Philippe Gros, de la Fondation pour la recherche stratégique :« Ce n'est pas évident d'avoir une vision définitive. On sait qu'il y a au moins une partie des troupes qui viennent des forces spéciales, du 11ᵉ corps qui relèverait des forces spéciales nord-coréennes. Ils sont considérés comme des troupes d'élite par les observateurs ». Reste à placer ces pions sur l'échiquier du front. Il y a trois échelons dans l'armée russe, rappelle Vincent Tourret de l'université de Montréal : « Le premier échelon, c'est de l'infanterie consommable qui est envoyée par petits groupes entre 3 et 5 hommes par vagues successives pour tester les défenses ukrainiennes et commencer à infiltrer le dispositif. Ce premier échelon est ensuite appuyé par des troupes plus régulières qui vont manier des armements lourds et sophistiqués de type mortiers, mitrailleuses lourdes, drones et qui enfin sont appuyés par un troisième groupe, un groupe d'élite des troupes parachutistes, de l'infanterie navale et des Spetsnaz qui eux vont faire la coordination des feux, ce troisième groupe va agir comme un coup de poing et exploiter ».Ces troupes nord-coréennes : chair à canon ou forces spéciales ?Philippe Gros et Vincent Tourret, privilégient la seconde option. « Il se dit que les Russes les ont formés aux tactiques de base, avance Philippe Gros. C'est-à-dire à manœuvrer avec l'artillerie, à utiliser des drones. Mais jusqu'à quel point ? Ce n'est pas du tout évident ». « Ce qui apparaît être clair, dit Vincent Tourret, c'est qu'elles vont être utilisées de la façon dont les Russes utilisent leur infanterie légère, à savoir par vagues. Soutenu par leur artillerie et avec des pertes assez importantes, donc c'est un modèle très attritionaire où les pertes sont complètement acceptées et elles seront lourdes ».10 000 hommes, cela reste un volume limitéSans compter, précise Philippe Gros, que la barrière de la langue peut poser problème au combat :« Il a fallu apprendre aux nord-coréens les termes de base pour manœuvrer. Ils ont un traducteur pour 30 soldats, donc en gros, un traducteur pour une section. Et puis évidemment, les russes se heurtent aux problèmes d'interopérabilité qu'il y a à intégrer des troupes dans un dispositif. Il semble qu'une partie des troupes nord-coréennes soit rattachée à une des brigades d'infanterie de Marine russe, la 810ᵉ. Donc, on est là vraiment sur une logique d'intégration tactique de ces unités dans le dispositif russe, et pas sur une logique de laisser les forces coréennes occuper un créneau avec leurs propres chaînes de commandement. Ils ont choisi le cas, le plus difficile à mettre en œuvre en termes d'intégration ». Néanmoins, analyse Elie Tenenbaum directeur de recherche de l'Ifri (Institut français des relations internationales), cette force ne sera pas négligeable, si les troupes nord-coréennes restent dans la région de Koursk. « Dans un premier temps, elles permettent à la Russie de maintenir son effort principal sur le Donbass, en lui évitant finalement d'avoir à exercer une sorte de balance de forces, précise-t-il. Elles sont vraisemblablement là aujourd'hui aussi pour être testées pour voir ce que ces nord-coréens sont capables de produire. Peut-être, dans un second temps, les employer sur une zone plus importante ou plus prioritaire pour la Russie ».  Dans l'hypothèse également où l'armée russe viendrait à manquer de ressources, redoutent les renseignements ukrainiens et sud-coréens, ces troupes nord-coréennes, pourraient être seulement l'avant-garde d'un contingent futur, cette fois plus étoffé.À lire aussiLes drones, la nouvelle arme du combat naval

GUEST: Mark Galeotti - historian, author, security expert and academic. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain/collections ---------- LINKS: https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-moscows-shadows/id1510124746 https://twitter.com/MarkGaleotti https://www.rusi.org/people/galeotti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Galeotti ---------- SPEAKER: Mark Galeotti is an author and academic – by training an historian – but in practice an interdisciplinary scholar with interests encompassing politics, criminology, security studies, international relations, and anthropology. He is a specialist in transnational and organized crime, security affairs, Russian Politics, Russian History, Intelligence and Security. Mark has a PhD in Government from LSE and has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of History at Keele University. He is a Principal Director at Mayak Intelligence, and is an Honorary Professor, SSEES at UCL. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He has also been Professor of Global Affairs at New York University from 2009 to 2016. ---------- BOOKS: Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia by Mark Galeotti and Anna Arutunyan (2024) Mark Galeotti: Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine (2022) Mark Galeotti: The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (2022) Mark Galeotti: A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin (2021) Mark Galeotti: Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979 (2021) Mark Galeotti: We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong (2019) Mark Galeotti: Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid (2019) Mark Galeotti: The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia (2018) ---------- WAR STUDIES: Mark Galeotti: Russia's Wars in Chechnya: 1994–2009 (2024) Mark Galeotti: Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-zone warfare opens the Russia-Ukraine conflict (2023) Mark Galeotti: Russia's Five-Day War: The invasion of Georgia, August 2008 (2023) Mark Galeotti: Afghanistan 1979–88: Soviet air power against the mujahideen (2023) Mark Galeotti: Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior: The Lithuanian Crusade 1283–1435 (2023) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube's algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Get the entire episode for $5 a month here - https://www.patreon.com/posts/110884628  The Zoo Crew is back for this month's Deadliest Warrior. It's our first group on group battle with modern weapons. Come for the ballistics knife and stay as we speculate how many war crimes each person did in Afghanistan.

La Operación Tormenta-333 fue el nombre clave de la operación de tropas especiales soviéticas que el 27 de diciembre de 1979 mataron al dictador afgano Hafizullah Amín y a 800 protectores de élite en el palacio Tajbeg, a 16 km de Kabul. La operación fue llevada a cabo por 24 soldados de la unidad Trueno del Grupo Alfa y 30 soldados de otro grupo especial del KGB: Zenit. También participaron 87 soldados de la Compañía Aerotransportada y 520 hombres del 154º Batallón Separado del Spetsnaz del Ministerio de la Defensa de URSS. Esta división se llamaba el “batallón musulmán” porque estaba formada exclusivamente por soldados de las repúblicas meridionales de URSS Con Julio "Caronte" y Esaú Rodríguez. ⭐️ ¿Qué es la Edición Especial de Verano? Se trata de reediciones revisadas de episodios relevantes de nuestro arsenal, para que no pases el verano sin tu ración de Historia Bélica. 👕 Enlace CAMISETA/MOCHILA 👉 https://bit.ly/4eNiSwO 👈 🔗 Enlaces para Listas de Episodios Exclusivos para 💥 FANS 👉 CB FANS 💥 https://bit.ly/CBPListCBFans 👉 Histórico 📂 FANS Antes de la 2GM https://bit.ly/CBPListHis1 👉 Histórico 📂 FANS 2ª Guerra Mundial https://bit.ly/CBPListHis2 👉 Histórico 📂 FANS Guerra Fría https://bit.ly/CBPListHis3 👉 Histórico 📂 FANS Después de la G Fría https://bit.ly/CBPListHis4 Casus Belli Podcast pertenece a 🏭 Factoría Casus Belli. Casus Belli Podcast forma parte de 📀 Ivoox Originals. 📚 Zeppelin Books (Digital) y 📚 DCA Editor (Físico) http://zeppelinbooks.com son sellos editoriales de la 🏭 Factoría Casus Belli. Estamos en: 🆕 WhatsApp https://bit.ly/CasusBelliWhatsApp 👉 X/Twitter https://twitter.com/CasusBelliPod 👉 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast 👉 Instagram estamos https://www.instagram.com/casusbellipodcast 👉 Telegram Canal https://t.me/casusbellipodcast 👉 Telegram Grupo de Chat https://t.me/casusbellipod 📺 YouTube https://bit.ly/casusbelliyoutube 👉 TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@casusbelli10 👉 https://podcastcasusbelli.com 👨‍💻Nuestro chat del canal es https://t.me/casusbellipod ⚛️ El logotipo de Casus Belli Podcasdt y el resto de la Factoría Casus Belli están diseñados por Publicidad Fabián publicidadfabian@yahoo.es 🎵 La música incluida en el programa es Ready for the war de Marc Corominas Pujadó bajo licencia CC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ El resto de música es bajo licencia privada de Epidemic Music, Jamendo Music o SGAE SGAE RRDD/4/1074/1012 de Ivoox. El cover es un detalle de la portada de STORM-333 del ilustrador Mark Galeoti que puedes encontrar en https://www.amazon.es/Storm-333-Spetsnaz-seize-Kabul-Soviet-Afghan/dp/1472841875 🎭Las opiniones expresadas en este programa de pódcast, son de exclusiva responsabilidad de quienes las trasmiten. Que cada palo aguante su vela. 📧¿Queréis contarnos algo? También puedes escribirnos a casus.belli.pod@gmail.com ¿Quieres anunciarte en este podcast, patrocinar un episodio o una serie? Hazlo a través de 👉 https://www.advoices.com/casus-belli-podcast-historia Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un like, ya que nos da mucha visibilidad. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

GUEST: Mark Galeotti - historian, author, security expert and academic. ---------- Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the most dangerous warlords in the world and as one of Vladimir Putin's chief rivals in Russia's tumultuous political climate, exiled after leading Wagner's attempted coup and killed in a mysterious plane crash. But what is the truth about this enigmatic figure, his role in the war with Ukraine, and the chaos unleashed across Russia by his turn against Putin? And, in the aftermath of his death, what is next for Russia in the new stage of late Putinism that Prigozhin's life forged? ---------- LINKS: https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-moscows-shadows/id1510124746 https://twitter.com/MarkGaleotti https://www.rusi.org/people/galeotti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Galeotti ---------- SPEAKER: Mark Galeotti is an author and academic – by training an historian – but in practice an interdisciplinary scholar with interests encompassing politics, criminology, security studies, international relations, and anthropology. He is a specialist in transnational and organized crime, security affairs, Russian Politics, Russian History, Intelligence and Security. Mark has a PhD in Government from LSE and has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of History at Keele University. He is a Principal Director at Mayak Intelligence, and is an Honorary Professor, SSEES at UCL. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He has also been Professor of Global Affairs at New York University from 2009 to 2016. ---------- BOOKS: Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia by Mark Galeotti and Anna Arutunyan (2024) Mark Galeotti: Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine (2022) Mark Galeotti: The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (2022) Mark Galeotti: A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin (2021) Mark Galeotti: Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979 (2021) Mark Galeotti: We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong (2019) Mark Galeotti: Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid (2019) Mark Galeotti: The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia (2018) ---------- WAR STUDIES: Mark Galeotti: Russia's Wars in Chechnya: 1994–2009 (2024) Mark Galeotti: Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-zone warfare opens the Russia-Ukraine conflict (2023) Mark Galeotti: Russia's Five-Day War: The invasion of Georgia, August 2008 (2023) Mark Galeotti: Afghanistan 1979–88: Soviet air power against the mujahideen (2023) Mark Galeotti: Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior: The Lithuanian Crusade 1283–1435 (2023) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

[originally published on Patreon Aug 18, 2023] The heists will continue until morale improves. We finish the story of José Vigoa by following the rest of his heist career. Then we discuss the circumstances surrounding his arrest and imprisonment, the discovery of his Spetsnaz commando background, and some of his purported intelligence activities post-arrest. This brings us to the topic of Cuban intelligence operations in the US, which in turns requires us to discuss the one source for this story - John Huddy. As it turns out, that's a very interesting story, too. episode art by Robert Voyvodich @r.voy__ Songs: the Bank Robbery by John Carpenter Confrontation by Tangerine Dream Igneous by Tangerine Dream

David McKay is a former Cold War special forces officer and author of Bubbleheads, SEALs and Wizards: America's Scottish Bastion in the Cold War. His book highlights the Scottish bases' significant role in supporting the US military over three decades. David brings his expertise into play, examining this intriguing story by reaching out to more than one hundred veterans and expert witnesses. Their contributions reveal the personal stories of history, not high-end diplomacy. We also delve into the espionage efforts mounted by the KGB against these bases through trawlers and agents on the ground. Among the many stories that David details are the nuclear missile submarine operations from Holy Loch, the large radio spy stations and reveals for the first time one of America's most bizarre intelligence gathering activities of the early Cold War. Episode extras here https://coldwarconversations.com/episode345/ Buy the book and support us here https://uk.bookshop.org/a/1549/9781849955546 The fight to preserve Cold War history continues and via a simple monthly donation, you will give me the ammunition to continue to preserve Cold War history. You'll become part of our community, get ad-free episodes, and get a sought-after CWC coaster as a thank you and you'll bask in the warm glow of knowing you are helping to preserve Cold War history. Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/ If a monthly contribution is not your cup of tea, we welcome one-off donations via the same link. Find the ideal gift for the Cold War enthusiast in your life! Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/store/ Support the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/ColdWarPod Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/coldwarpod/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/coldwarconversations/ Youtube https://youtube.com/@ColdWarConversations Love history? Join Intohistory https://intohistory.com/coldwarpod 00:00  Introducing Cold War Conversations and David Mackay 01:54 David Mackay: From Paratrooper to Cold War Historian 05:30 The Strategic Importance of Scottish Bases in the Cold War 08:32 Project Genetrix: Balloons, Espionage, and Cold War Ingenuity 16:49 The U.S. Submarine Base in Scotland: Strategic Decisions and Local Impact 26:55 Espionage and Security: Spies, Spetsnaz, and Surveillance 33:20 The Soviet Presence in Scotland: Trawlers, Spies, and Local Encounters 41:25 Close Encounters of the Naval Kind 42:09 The Cat and Mouse of Cold War Submarines 42:53 Espionage and a High Seas Emergency 44:13 Gathering Intel 46:21 Signals Intelligence and the Scottish Connection 56:14 The Strategic Importance of Machrihanish 01:04:56 Prestwick Airport: A Cold War Crossroads 01:08:29 Reflecting on the Cuban Missile Crisis 01:11:37 Personal Anecdotes and Cold War Reflections Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

GUEST: Mark Galeotti - historian, author, security expert and academic. ---------- Cornered like a rat, Vladimir Putin is more dangerous than ever. We want his regime to be unstable, fragile, and collapsing – but 14 months of war have shown it is remarkably resilient. We wanted the Russian people to rise up against tyranny, but more than a million fled the country instead. Analysts, politicians, and the media have been wrong about so much when it comes to Russia. What are we still getting wrong. ---------- SPEAKER: Mark Galeotti is an author and academic – by training an historian – but in practice an interdisciplinary scholar with interests encompassing politics, criminology, security studies, international relations, and anthropology. He is a specialist in transnational and organized crime, security affairs, Russian Politics, Russian History, Intelligence and Security. Mark has a PhD in Government from LSE and has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of History at Keele University. He is a Principal Director at Mayak Intelligence, and is an Honorary Professor, SSEES at UCL. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He has also been Professor of Global Affairs at New York University from 2009 to 2016. ---------- BOOKS: Mark Galeotti: Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine (2022) Mark Galeotti: The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (2022) Mark Galeotti: A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin (2021) Mark Galeotti: Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979 (2021) Mark Galeotti: We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong (2019) Mark Galeotti: Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid (2019) Mark Galeotti: The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia (2018) ---------- WAR STUDIES: Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-zone warfare opens the Russia-Ukraine conflict (2023) Russia's Five-Day War: The invasion of Georgia, August 2008 (2023) Afghanistan 1979–88: Soviet air power against the mujahideen (2023) Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior: The Lithuanian Crusade 1283–1435 (2023) ---------- #markgaleotti #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ---------- WATCH NEXT: Fiona Hill https://youtu.be/maBUKuJmQ4M Jade McGlynn https://youtu.be/uc_ak2c4XX0 Peter Pomerantsev https://youtu.be/bIFrJXly9QY Edward Lucas https://youtu.be/Qcfyu_dwHEo Owen Matthews https://youtu.be/1XbmVAaseGM ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:00 Xxx ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube's algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

I russi hanno formato una nuova brigata d'assalto aereo pronta a riprendere una tecnica di guerra già utilizzata in passato dai corpi speciali sovietici, le famose Spetsnaz, in Afghanistan. L'obiettivo? Superare le imponenti linee difensive erette dagli ucraini. Iscriviti e segui "Notizie dall'Ucraina":YouTubeApple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle PodcastsAmazon PodcastAudibleadnkronos.comI podcast Adnkronos:Fa notizia da 60 anni: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/adnkronos60_podcast/Aggiungi contatto: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/aggiungi_contatto/Notizie dall'Ucraina: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/notizie_ucraina/Israele sotto attacco: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/israele_sotto_attacco/Le Storie, La Storia: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/le_storie_la_storia/Sanremo Express: https://www.adnkronos.com/speciali/sanremo_podcast_2024Resta in contatto con noi:https://www.adnkronos.com/https://twitter.com/Adnkronoshttps://www.facebook.com/AgenziaAdnKronoshttps://www.instagram.com/adnkronos_/

In this Season 5 finale of the Talking Lead AK KORNER – Ding, ding, ding! It is time for Round 3 of the annual AK vs AR slugfest. In the red corner we have Team AK; Marco Vorobiev (former Spetsnaz soldier, Author & Historian), Drew Breneman (Century Arms AK Human Encyclopedia) & Chad Enos (New Brand Manager at Century Arms and newbie to the AK world). In the blue corner is Team AR; Nick Dooley (Host … Talking Lead 517 – Stoner vs Kalashnikov Round 3 Read More »

https://chtbl.com/track/118312/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/talkinglead/AK_VS_AR_round_3_Edited.mp3 In this Season 5 finale of the Talking Lead AK KORNER - Ding, ding, ding! It is time for Round 3 of the annual AK vs AR slugfest. In the red corner we have Team AK; Marco Vorobiev (former Spetsnaz soldier, Author & Historian), Drew Breneman (Century Arms AK Human Encyclopedia) & Chad Enos (New Brand Manager at Century Arms and newbie to the AK world). In the blue corner is Team AR; Nick Dooley (Host of the AR-15 Podcast & Defender of American Freedom), Garth Hofer (Host of the AR-15 Podcast & Red Blooded American) & the Pimp-hand of America, Professor Paul Markel (Host of Student of The Gun Podcast). The debate gets heated and no punches are pulled. Feelings get hurt and jaws get cracked as it comes down to a split decision, only you can make the final vote of which team is the winner of Round 3 of this on-going battle. So, who did you vote for?

We're back to discuss the 2019 reboot of Call of Duty's Modern Warfare series! In this episode we'll be talking about the inspirations for the campaign, the controversies that made headlines, chemical weapons and much more.Make sure to stay tuned for the first episode of season three, coming very soon!You can find Marcel Plichta on:Grey DynamicsLinkedInTwitterYou can find Michael Elmer on:Grey DynamicsLinkedInWe Spoke About:0:00 - Intro1:27 - Context5:54 - Marines vs. Spetsnaz in Kastovia20:26 - The London Attack27:07 - Russian occupation in Urzikstan36:11 - US Marines and CIA search for Al-Qatala38:03 - Storming of the US embassy in Urzikstan44:27 - The Highway of Death49:39 - The flashback 52:20 - Designating the rebels as terrorists and intel briefings58:05 - Second flashback1:00:16 - Clandestine operation in Russia and going to get General Barkov in Moldova1:09:25 - SummaryRelated ArticlesThe Wagner Group: The World's Most Infamous PMCThe KSSO: Russia's Special Operations CommandCIA Special Activities Center: The Third OptionMARSOC Marine Raiders: Always Faithful, Always ForwardSCO19: The ‘Trojans' of LondonPrevious Call of Duty Podcast EpisodesEpisode 17: Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare, an Intelligence perspectiveEpisode 18: Call of Duty Modern Warfare, an Intelligence Perspective (Pt. 2)Episode 19: Call of Duty Modern Warfare, an Intelligence Perspective (Pt. 3)Sign up for the Grey Dynamics Intelligence School (GDIS)Sign Up HereSubscribe for Exclusive Grey Dynamics ReportsSubscribe Here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Talking Lead AK KORNER: AK Shotguns! Author, former Spetsnaz & historian Marco Vorobiev along with Paul Markel (Student Of The Gun) and Evan Floodman (Firearms Enthusiast & Star of Ultimate Marksman) join Lefty to bring you another look into the history, features, magazines and little known facts about shotguns based … Talking Lead 503 – AK KORNER S5 Ep8: Saiga-12 & VEPR-12 Read More »

https://chtbl.com/track/118312/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/talkinglead/akk_s5_ep_8_shotguns_edited.mp3 In this episode of the Talking Lead AK KORNER: AK Shotguns! Author, former Spetsnaz & historian Marco Vorobiev along with Paul Markel (Student Of The Gun) and Evan Floodman (Firearms Enthusiast & Star of Ultimate Marksman) join Lefty to bring you another look into the history, features, magazines and little known facts about shotguns based off the proven AK-47 design. In addition to discussing the obvious Izmash Saiga-12 and Molot VEPR-12 we discuss some Chinese (Catamount) and Turkey (Tiaga) made shoties and a little know Italian Berretta Pump/Semi box-fed shotgun. Plus we answer listener questions and award some cool prizes form Mission First Tactical and SEAL 1.

Avsnitt 376 är här! Äntligen tillbaka från semestern! Lätt förvirrade och hyggligt utvilade (i alla fall Krick), försöker vi komma ihåg hur man gjorde när man poddar. Vi inleder med en tillbakablick på en ytterst händelserik sommar där Ponkan kör ner hojen i en flod och dränker sig själv och Krick får en njurens-attack, efterföljt av egentid på Gotland där han oroar sig för att bli överfallen av Spetsnaz-soldater. Sen får ni följa med Ponkan till ett brandhärjat Grekland och Krick till Spanien där han tillbringade en vecka i Pernilla Wahlgrens säng. Även om det var ljuvligt så smolkas upplevelsen av en vidrig hyrbil från Kina. Troligtvis det sämsta som någonsin tillverkats. Vi rundar av med lite roligt bilskvaller. Häng med!

Evenals de misleidende term ‘zinloos geweld' suggereert dat er ook zoiets bestaat als zinvol geweld, doet de term ‘schone oorlog' vermoeden dat die zich zou onderscheiden van een vuile oorlog. In een ‘schone oorlog' wordt uitsluitend geschoten op militaire doelen. Dat kan een kazerne vol soldaten zijn. Maar op flatgebouwen of ziekenhuizen schieten is een terroristische daad, en dus een vuile oorlog. Als vlakbij die kazerne een school staat, of naast het ziekenhuis een artilleriebatterij, wat dan? Oorlogen zijn altijd vuil.  In november 1940 bombardeerden de Duitsers de Britse stad Coventry. Naar verluidt wist Churchill dat al uren van tevoren, maar gelastte geen evacuatie omdat de Duitsers dan zouden begrijpen dat de Britten hun communicatie hadden onderschept. Als dat waar is, beging Churchill dan een oorlogsmisdrijf? In februari 1945, toen Nazi-Duitsland feitelijk al had verloren, gooiden de Britten en Amerikanen Dresden plat. Misschien was het Churchills wraak, misschien woede, zo vlak na de bevrijding van Auschwitz. Maar strategisch had het bombardement geen nut, en tussen de 150.000 en 200.000 burgers kwamen om. Oorlogsmisdrijf?  Een vuile of schone oorlog hangt niet alleen af van de geraakte doelen, maar ook van de gebruikte methodes. Na hun geklungel in de eerste fase van de oorlog, hebben de Russen een lesje geleerd. Defensie-expert Michael Peck dook ik de opbouw van het front, waar de Russen gigantische versterkingen hebben aangelegd en duizenden mijnen hebben geplaatst. De troepenmacht bestaat, vanaf het front naar achteren, uit veroordeelde gevangenen, dienstplichtigen, beroepsmilitairen en Spetsnaz commando's. Aan het front staat dus ‘opofferbare infanterie,' kanonnenvlees dat voor de glorie van de rodina, het moederland, de dood in wordt gejaagd. Oorlogsmisdrijf?  Eric Miller, van de Amerikaanse denktank RAND, onthult in de Moscow Times de schaduwzijde van de Oekraïense inzet. Sinds 2014 vechten milities uit Tsjetsjenië, Rusland en Belarus mee, niet omdat ze warme gevoelens koesteren voor team-Zelensky, maar om hun eigen ambities te verwezenlijken. De Tsjetsjenen willen onafhankelijkheid, de Wit-Russen willen Loekasjenko omleggen. Net als aan het begin van de oorlog de extreemrechtse Azov-brigade meevocht, vechten er nu eenheden mee van het neonazistische Russische en etnisch-Russische Vrijwilligers Corps, dat een staatsgreep in het Kremlin wil. Allemaal mannen die, zogezegd, staan te popelen om oorlogsmisdrijven te plegen.  De dood van onschuldige burgers is het gruwelijke refrein van elk oorlogsrelaas. Om te winnen vraagt Zelenski niet om artsen, verpleegkundigen en pleisters, maar om wapens. Om door de Russische linies te breken. Wat daar klaar staat is het Russische kanonnenvlees. Maar ja, dat is een militair doel, dus het mag.   Kijk voor alle columns van Bernard Hammelburg op www.bnr.nl/bernardhammelburgSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Evenals de misleidende term ‘zinloos geweld' suggereert dat er ook zoiets bestaat als zinvol geweld, doet de term ‘schone oorlog' vermoeden dat die zich zou onderscheiden van een vuile oorlog. In een ‘schone oorlog' wordt uitsluitend geschoten op militaire doelen. Dat kan een kazerne vol soldaten zijn. Maar op flatgebouwen of ziekenhuizen schieten is een terroristische daad, en dus een vuile oorlog. Als vlakbij die kazerne een school staat, of naast het ziekenhuis een artilleriebatterij, wat dan? Oorlogen zijn altijd vuil.  In november 1940 bombardeerden de Duitsers de Britse stad Coventry. Naar verluidt wist Churchill dat al uren van tevoren, maar gelastte geen evacuatie omdat de Duitsers dan zouden begrijpen dat de Britten hun communicatie hadden onderschept. Als dat waar is, beging Churchill dan een oorlogsmisdrijf? In februari 1945, toen Nazi-Duitsland feitelijk al had verloren, gooiden de Britten en Amerikanen Dresden plat. Misschien was het Churchills wraak, misschien woede, zo vlak na de bevrijding van Auschwitz. Maar strategisch had het bombardement geen nut, en tussen de 150.000 en 200.000 burgers kwamen om. Oorlogsmisdrijf?  Een vuile of schone oorlog hangt niet alleen af van de geraakte doelen, maar ook van de gebruikte methodes. Na hun geklungel in de eerste fase van de oorlog, hebben de Russen een lesje geleerd. Defensie-expert Michael Peck dook ik de opbouw van het front, waar de Russen gigantische versterkingen hebben aangelegd en duizenden mijnen hebben geplaatst. De troepenmacht bestaat, vanaf het front naar achteren, uit veroordeelde gevangenen, dienstplichtigen, beroepsmilitairen en Spetsnaz commando's. Aan het front staat dus ‘opofferbare infanterie,' kanonnenvlees dat voor de glorie van de rodina, het moederland, de dood in wordt gejaagd. Oorlogsmisdrijf?  Eric Miller, van de Amerikaanse denktank RAND, onthult in de Moscow Times de schaduwzijde van de Oekraïense inzet. Sinds 2014 vechten milities uit Tsjetsjenië, Rusland en Belarus mee, niet omdat ze warme gevoelens koesteren voor team-Zelensky, maar om hun eigen ambities te verwezenlijken. De Tsjetsjenen willen onafhankelijkheid, de Wit-Russen willen Loekasjenko omleggen. Net als aan het begin van de oorlog de extreemrechtse Azov-brigade meevocht, vechten er nu eenheden mee van het neonazistische Russische en etnisch-Russische Vrijwilligers Corps, dat een staatsgreep in het Kremlin wil. Allemaal mannen die, zogezegd, staan te popelen om oorlogsmisdrijven te plegen.  De dood van onschuldige burgers is het gruwelijke refrein van elk oorlogsrelaas. Om te winnen vraagt Zelenski niet om artsen, verpleegkundigen en pleisters, maar om wapens. Om door de Russische linies te breken. Wat daar klaar staat is het Russische kanonnenvlees. Maar ja, dat is een militair doel, dus het mag.   Kijk voor alle columns van Bernard Hammelburg op www.bnr.nl/bernardhammelburgSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the Talking Lead AK KORNER we give the answer to the Trivia Giveaway question from May's AK KORNER. “What is it about the AK ammunition that gives it it's inherent reliability?”. Joe Meaux with Aklys Defense and author, former Spetsnaz soldier, Marco Vorobiev join Lefty to deep dive into this, not … Talking Lead 495 – AK KORNER S5 Ep6: Reliability of AK-47/74 Ammunition Read More »

https://chtbl.com/track/118312/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/talkinglead/AKK_S5-6_AK_Ammo_Reliability.mp3 In this episode of the Talking Lead AK KORNER we give the answer to the Trivia Giveaway question from May's AK KORNER. "What is it about the AK ammunition that gives it it's inherent reliability?". Joe Meaux with Aklys Defense and author, former Spetsnaz soldier, Marco Vorobiev join Lefty to deep dive into this, not so obvious, answer and announce the winner of the Aklys Defense Kopis silencer. Tune in to hear your answers read on air and find out if you are the WINNER! Talking Lead AK KORNER - Joe Meaux, Ton Jones, Marco Vorobiev Joe Meaux, Lefty, Marco Vorobiev - Talking Lead AK KORNER Talking Lead AK KORNER S5 Ep.6 - Joe Meaux and Marco Vorobiev

När Wagnergruppen plötsligt vänder sig mot den ryska armén och tågar mot Moskva blir det uppenbart att Putin har problem i sina egna led. Wagnergruppens ledare, oligarken och krögaren, Jevgenij Prigozjin har varit kritisk mot den ryska armén den här våren. I sin kanal på Telegram har han skällt ut försvarsminister Sergej Sjojgu och generalstabschefen Valerij Gerasimov flera gånger och pekat på antalet döda soldater vid fronten i Ukraina. Under midsommarhelgen tar han sin privatarmé och tågar in i södra Ryssland, intar miljonstaden Rostov och tar sig vidare mot Moskva.– Så bestämde han sig för att kräva Sjojgus och Gerasimos huvud på ett fat. Och så marscherar han mot Moskva via Rostov, säger journalisten och Rysslandskännaren Per Enerud.Överstelöjtnant Johan Huovinen utesluter inte att Prigozjin fick stöd inifrån den ryska militären i och med att de mötte förhållandevis lite motstånd under kuppförsöket.– Att det kunde ske indikerar kanske någonstans att det fanns ett medgivande från någon att det här skulle ske. Att det har utgått någon typ av order, säger Johan Huovinen.Kommer Prigozjin avrättas?Wagnergruppen har nära band till den ryska militära underrättelsetjänsten GRU och grundades av GRU-officeren Dimitrij Utkin.– Han kommer från Spetsnaz och har gjort hela sin militära karriär inom Ryska Försvarsmaktens elitförband. Så på det sättet är det han som är själva kniven i lådan medan Prigozjin är entreprenören och företagaren som ser till att det här kan expandera och växa, säger Johan Huovinen på Försvarshögskolan.Jevgenij Prigozjin sägs ha blivit vän med president Putin när han drev restauranger och cateringfirma i Moskva. Efter kuppförsöket spekuleras det i hans framtida öde eftersom den ryska regimen har en historik av att göra sig av med sina motståndare genom förgiftningar, bilkrascher eller andra typer av mystiska olyckor.Medverkande:Johan Huovinen, överstelöjtnant och lärare vid FörsvarshögskolanHanna Smith, Rysslandsexpert och professor vid College of Europe i BelgienPer Enerud, Rysslandskännare, journalist och författareProgramledare: Karin Hållsten och Jimmy HalvarssonProducenter: Karin Hållsten och Jimmy HalvarssonTekniker: Glate ÖhmanLjud från Sveriges Radio, Reuters, Prigozjin press, PBS, The Telegraph, Euronews

Russia's elite Spetsnaz soldiers have been obliterated during the war in Ukraine, according to a report based on leaked American intelligence files. The head of Tibet's government-in-exile on Thursday defended the Dalai Lama over footage of him asking a boy to suck his tongue, saying the incident had demonstrated the spiritual leader's innocent and affectionate side. A California church that defied safety regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic by holding large, unmasked religious services must pay $1.2 million in fines, a judge has ruled. Calvary Chapel in San Jose was fined last week for ignoring Santa Clara County's mask-wearing rules between November 2020 and June 2021. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"At this point I'm more nervous for a train to derail than a plane to crash" - With a second train derailment in Ohio, The Dimes take a hard look at America's railroad system - The government takes away resources from specialized services until the infrastructure fails "You know, Spetsnaz, good guys" - Possible evidence surfaces that a pro-Ukrainian group sabotaged the NORD Stream Pipeline, but The Dimes believe Ukraine doesn't have the motive or means to pull off this kind of operation - With the benefits clear for both Russia and America, it's hard to tell who would of done this but it will end in the continued occupation of Ukraine "I consent to no searches, I own firearms, and I say what the fuck I'm thinking" - Jon Stewart's interview with Oklahoma Sate Senator Nathan Dahm shows us just how brainwashed conservatives have become about gun ownership - Daryl lays out a solid 4-point plan to help end gun violence in America "That's a muscle mommy!" - The Dimes discuss Andre Tate's pressing question, would you f**k Megan Foxx with a d**k or Hulk Hogan with a p**sy?

In the latest episode of Battleground Ukraine, Saul and Patrick consider the logic of Ukraine's decision to continue fighting for the city of Bakhmut, and they discuss reports that elements of the Russian armed forces – including the elite Spetsnaz special forces - are suffering high desertions rates and, in some instances, are mutinying in the face of certain death. They also discuss listeners thoughts and questions. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - battlegroundukraine@gmail.com Producer: James Hodgson Twitter: @PodBattleground Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Part 2 of our series analysing the Call of Duty series from an intelligence perspective. This episode we look at 2009's Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. We travel the world from Afghanistan, to Brazil to the Virginia suburbs. Encountering Far Right Terrorists, Gun Runners, Spetsnaz and PMCs.You can find Marcel Plichta on:Twitter Grey Dynamics LinkedInYou can find Michael Ellmer on: Grey Dynamics LinkedIn TwitterWe spoke aboutRangers in Afghanistan. CIA Recruitment and Deep Cover. James Bond level spectacle. How realistic is the "No Russian" mission? Russian in the Virginia suburbs. Evil PMCs. Russian gear and the Ratnik Program. Perspectives in conflicts and their portrayal in propaganda. The pain of using a real Javelin.Related Articles: The Regimental Reconnaissance Company: Hidden Eyes of the Rangers CIA Special Activities Center: The Third Option The KSSO: Russia's Special Operations Command Ratnik: Russia's Modern Warrior Program PMCs: The Future Frontier of Warfare in Afghanistan?The Grey Dynamics Podcast is available on all major platforms!Spotify Apple Podcast Google Podcast Amazon PodcastSubscribe to Grey Dynamics Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Home Service Force or HSF was UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Cold War version of the World War 2 Home Guard. An almost forgotten unit, the  HSF was established in 1982 and recruited from ex-regular Army, ex-territorial and ex-uniformed service personnel aged up to 60 years old. Its mission was to guard key points in the UK as the perceived threat from Warsaw Pact special forces increased towards the end of the Cold War.I speak with Richard Coles, who served as an officer in the HSF Company of The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC). He tells of the setup of the unit, the incredible characters he served with and details some of the exercises that he participated in.   The Cold War Conversation continues in our Facebook discussion group and on Twitter https://twitter.com/ColdWarPodCold War history is disappearing; however, a simple monthly donation will keep this podcast on the air. You'll become part of our community and get a sought-after CWC coaster as a thank you and bask in the warm glow of knowing you are helping preserve Cold War history. Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/If a monthly contribution is not your cup of tea, We also welcome one-off donations via the same link.I am delighted to welcome Richard Coles to our Cold War conversation…Episode notes here https://coldwarconversations.com/episode259Find the ideal gift for the Cold War enthusiast in your life! Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/store/Support the showSupport the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/ Follow us on Twitter here https://twitter.com/ColdWarPodFacebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/coldwarpod/Instagram https:/...

https://chtbl.com/track/118312/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/talkinglead/TLP_AKK_SEp9_BFTContest.mp3 In this month's episode of the Talking Lead AK KORNER, presented by Century Arms: The entries for the Talking Lead / Century Arms BFT47 AKM Rifle contest are JUDGED! To decide your fate and crown the winner Lefty has gathered some of the industries toughest AK-47 critics. From Occam Defense Solutions, Brian Keeney. From Faktory-47 James Bialczak. From Kalashbash TX / Third Pin Threads, Klay Owens. Author, trainer & former Spetsnaz, Marco Vorobiev. Author, Podcast Host & Trainer, Professor Paul Markel. Before we get to the contest judging everyone shares their stories about our good friend & a true Samurai Warrior James "MF" Yeager. Talking Lead Podcxast - "Leaducating The Unleaducated" since 2012 Talking Lead BFT47 Contest #TLBFT47

United States amongst; the most ticket holders for the World Cup in Qatar. The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be the 22nd running of the FIFA World Cup competition, the quadrennial international men's football championship contested by the senior national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December 2022. Spetsnaz 1991, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Ukraine offers an update on the cyber phases of Russia's hybrid war. Atlassian patches a Confluence critical vulnerability. CISA releases ICS advisory on voting systems. A "State-aligned" phishing campaign tried to exploit Follina. Is Electronic warfare a blunt instrument in the ether? Verizon's Chris Novak stops by with thoughts on making the most of your trip to the RSA conference. Our guest is Tom Garrison from Intel with a look at hardware security. And a Russia-aligned group says they're not just hacktivists; they're "Cyber Spetsnaz." For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/108 Selected reading. Remarks by Victor Zhorov, deputy head of SSSCIP. (SSSCIP) US military hackers conducting offensive operations in support of Ukraine, says head of Cyber Command (Sky News) Russian ministry website appears hacked; RIA reports users data protected (Reuters) Confluence Security Advisory 2022-06-02 (Atlassian) Atlassian Releases New Versions of Confluence Server and Data Center to Address CVE-2022-26134 (CISA)  Patch released for exploited Atlassian zero-day vulnerability (The Record by Recorded Future)  CISA Releases Security Advisory on Dominion Voting Systems Democracy Suite ImageCast X (CISA)  State-Backed Hackers Exploit Microsoft 'Follina' Bug to Target Entities in Europe and U.S (The Hacker News) Deadly secret: Electronic warfare shapes Russia-Ukraine war (AP NEWS)  Exclusive: Pro-Russia group ‘Cyber Spetsnaz' is attacking government agencies (Security Affairs)

Released 14 April 2022. In this podcast, Tor Bukkvoll revisits his 2016 Parameters, article and examines Russian Special Forces and their potential use in Ukraine today. Click here to read the original article. Episode Transcript:  Stephanie Crider (Host) Welcome to Decisive Point, a US Army War College Press production featuring distinguished authors and contributors who get to the heart of the matter in national security affairs. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Department of the Army, the US Army War College, or any other agency of the US government. Conversations on Strategy welcomes Dr. Tor Bukkvoll, author of “Russian Special Operations Forces in Crimea and Donbas,” featured in Parameters' 2016 summer issue. Bukkvoll is a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment. He's a specialist on Russia and Ukraine, particularly in the areas of defense and security policy. The guests in speaking order on this episode are: (Guest 1: Tor Bukkvoll)   (Host) Thank you so much for joining me, Tor. I'm really glad you're here. We're here to talk about your 2016 article, which opens with this sentence: “This article investigates the roles special operations forces (SOF) have fulfilled in Russian warfare against Ukraine—both in Crimea and in Donbas.” Please give us some background. Russian Special Operations Forces in Ukraine in the past—what do we need to understand here? (Bukkvoll) So what we need to understand, in terms of the role these forces have played in Russian policy towards Ukraine, is that they played a major—maybe the most important—role in the annexation of Crimea. And then, secondly, they played an important (but not so important) role in the warfare in Donbas. There may have been Russian Special Operations Forces in Ukraine, also, prior to the events of 2014. But I think it makes sense to start with the annexation of Crimea, because these forces played such an important role there. And that was, first of all, in terms of the so-called SSO, which in Russian stands for Sil Spetsial'nykh Operatsiy. This is a relatively new Russian special operations force that was firmly established in 2013 but had been built up for a number of years before that. What you should know is that in Soviet times, special operations forces tended to be more like what in the West would be called light elite infantry. So, the famous Spetsnaz forces that we heard so much about, they are more like the US (Army) Rangers than the US special operations forces like (First US Special Forces Operational Detachment) Delta and the (US Navy) SEALs and so on. But this new force, SSO, was particularly built on the example—or was supposed to be—the Russian “Delta Force.” Specifically, the Russian military referred to “Delta” when they talked about SSO. And in Crimea, this SSO force, they started their annexation by taking over the buildings or the parliament and the government in Crimea. And then they occupied those buildings for 24 hours—basically, it seems to me, from the sources I've seen, to check out what the Ukrainians would do at that time. Would they try to stop the annexation, or would they not? And the Ukrainians, for a number of reasons, did nothing or very little. And that became the first step in the annexation of the whole peninsula. And the SSO continue to play a big role here in cooperation with Spetsnaz GRU, which is the special operations forces of the Russian military intelligence. These are the “Rangers” forces I talked about before that then worked in tandem with the SSO to take over most of the Ukrainian military infrastructure on that peninsula. So this operation, taking place on 27th of February 2014, is today one of the most important operations that Russian Special Operations Forces have ever done. And President (Vladimir) Putin even named the 27th of February as the day of special op...

Con la mejor tradición heredada de los Spetsnaz de la era soviética, las Fuerzas Armada Ucranianas han conservado y modernizado a sus cuatro regimientos de Fuerzas Especiales, y los están utilizando contra las Fuerzas Armadas Rusas en la defensa de su territorio. ¿Quieres saber cómo son estas fuerzas de élite del Ejército Ucraniano? Te lo cuenta 🏍 Julio Caronte 🤝 Colaboración de Para Bellum Historia para Casus Belli Podcast. Originalmente publicado en Anchor https://anchor.fm/danicaran Produce PodFactory 🛠️ Pod Factory http://podfactory.es Para Bellum Historia Podcast pertenece a la Factoría Casus Belli http://casusbelli.top Puedes ponerte en contacto con nosotros en el mail parabellum@podfactory.es Música: The Witch Hunters de Grégoire Lourm bajo licencia Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Con la mejor tradición heredada de los Spetsnaz de la era soviética, las Fuerzas Armada Ucranianas han conservado y modernizado a sus cuatro regimientos de Fuerzas Especiales, y los están utilizando contra las Fuerzas Armadas Rusas en la defensa de su territorio. ¿Quieres saber cómo son estas fuerzas de élite del Ejército Ucraniano? Te lo cuenta

Tanks, Spetsnaz, "Little Green Men" and information warfare. Jack Murphy takes us beyond the headlines and into Russia's military, strategy, and how they envision victory. This is part two of our Future War series on Russia. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts.

Η Ρωσία θεωρείται μία από τις μεγαλύτερες και ισχυρότερες στρατιωτικές δυνάμεις στον κόσμο. Ποια είναι η σύγκριση των ρωσικών ενόπλων δυνάμεων με το στρατό της Ουκρανίας; Ποιοι πολεμούν στον πόλεμο αυτό; Τι είναι οι Spetsnaz, τι κάνουν στην Ουκρανία οι Τσετσένοι, ποιοι είναι οι μισθοφόροι Wagner και ποιος ο ρόλος τους σε αυτόν τον πόλεμο; Τι όπλα έστειλε η Ελλάδα στους Ουκρανούς και πόσο χρήσιμα τους είναι; Τα τούρκικα Bayraktar πόσο αποτελεσματικά αποδείχθηκαν;  Σε αυτά και μερικά ακόμα ερωτήματα απαντάει ο δημοσιογράφος Γιάννης Παλιούρας, ο οποίος αναλύει τα πλεονεκτήματα και τα μειονεκτήματα κάθε πλευράς και εξηγεί γιατί οι Ρώσοι δυσκολεύτηκαν και γιατί η επίθεση στην Ουκρανία δεν πήγε όπως περίμεναν.  

När Lars Hammar gjorde lumpen och Mossad och Spetsnaz ryckte började rycka i honom, hur bilden av ryssen gått från "Ivan Drago-energi" till berusade "Russians Gone Wild-energi", Zelenskys hämtningar och lämningar från förskolan och om journalistiken som framkallade text efter text om baren som aldrig slocknade i New Orleans under orkanen Katrina.

Former Russian Spetsnaz, Podcast Host. Husband & Father, Sonny Puzikas hangs out to break down the unfolding events in the Ukraine. www.sonnypuzikas.com www.paypal.com/paypalme/Spkn2U

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! De Afganistán a Siria, pasando por Sebastopol, Chechenia, o las luchas intestinas de poder en la extinta Unión Soviética. ¿Quiénes son? ¿Quiénes no son? Las fuerzas de élite rusas, resucitadas y potenciadas bajo el mandato del ex-KGB Putin no fueron conocidas por el público soviético hasta la llegada de la Glasnost, causando una gran conmoción, tanto en Occidente como para los propios rusos. Tormenta-333 fue la operación más famosa (y conocida), pero también tenemos resultados adversos en la lucha contra el terrorismo. Los vimos liderando la toma por la fuerza de Crimea, y también ayudando a Siria en su lucha contra el Estado Islámico. Esta es la historia de los Spetnaz, la élite de las fuerzas soviéticas, que han renacido con fuerza en la nueva Rusia. Con Pablo Quintana Estamos en: casusbelli.top Facebook, nuestra página es @casusbellipodcast https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast Telegram, nuestro canal es @casusbellipodcast https://t.me/casusbellipodcast Y nuestro nuevo chat de aviones es @aviones10 Twitter, como @casusbellipod https://twitter.com/CasusBelliPod Pinterest, como @casusbellipod, https://es.pinterest.com/casusbellipod ¿Queréis contarnos algo? También puedes escribirnos a casus.belli.pod@gmail.com Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un like, que es el corazoncito que sale en el episodio en el móvil arriba a la derecha, si nos escuchas desde la app de ivoox, sea android o IOS. La música que acompaña al podcast es Ready From The War de Marc Coromines Pujadó, bajo licencia Creative Commons. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Charla entre Pablo Quintana y Dani CArAn sobre un poco de todo de los Spetsnaz: Mundial de Rusia del 2008, Primera Guerra Chechena, Secuestro Teatro de Moscú, Masacre de Beslán y la Mafia Rusa en los 90. Programa exclusivo para afiliados. Los Casus Belli Plus son audios exclusivos para afiliados. Puedes hacerte afiliado en Ivoox, desde nuestro programa (funciona solo en app android o iphone) accediendo desde el botón de Apoyar Estamos en: casusbelli.top Facebook, nuestra página es @casusbellipodcast https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast Telegram, nuestro canal es @casusbellipodcast https://t.me/casusbellipodcast Y nuestro nuevo chat de aviones es @aviones10 Twitter, como @casusbellipod https://twitter.com/CasusBelliPod Pinterest, como @casusbellipod, https://es.pinterest.com/casusbellipod ¿Queréis contarnos algo? También puedes escribirnos a casus.belli.pod@gmail.com Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un like, que es el corazoncito que sale en el episodio en el móvil arriba a la derecha, si nos escuchas desde la app de ivoox, sea android o IOS. La música que acompaña al programa es Freedom Soldiers de Grégoire Lourme, bajo licencia Creative Commons. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

In this short story, meet John Chase before the V Plague apocalypse. He is part of the US Army's Delta Force. In Crucifixion: V Plague, Book 2, he mentions a flashback to running through a Central American jungle with Spetsnaz in pursuit. This is that story.  Note that this is a short story and does not need to be listened to in any particular sequence with the V Plague series. All events are prior to the attacks and events that occur in the series, and this will not spoil that timeline. RULES OF ENGAGEMENT Written by Dirk Patton Narrated by Edison McDaniels 5.0 out of 5 stars Very good intro if you haven't started the series yet... Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2015 Only four stars, because of the length. It is essentially a prequel to the Voodoo Plague series. I had read all the series books but couldn't get enough so I purchased and read this one. The series books are around 350 pages on average so I expected this to be a bit longer, my bad. I can't tell you how great this series is but this stand alone short story will prime you for them or give you an enjoyable read even if you don't continue. (Please read the series, you won't regret it!) Dirk Patton is excellent at giving you all the tools you need for a fantastic mental picture during the read. He makes it so interesting that I have purchased and read all 8 John Chase stories within a month's time. Ill let you in on a secret that is probably most people's circumstance. I read the free editions to a series then base my buying on how good it was. If it was meh then I move on. I almost never wait for a book to be released before moving to a different author, I will be waiting on this next book. That's how good it is! https://www.audible.com/pd/Rules-of-Engagement-A-John-Chase-Short-Story-Audiobook/B093HD95WF?qid=1640323129&sr=1-27&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_2_7&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=6EE06HSAWTDG7837SPRN

La Araña Fm, celebrates a year on the air as a podcast since December 2020. Now in this 2021 we send you happy holidays and will open a new trailer for our followers. This 2021 there is peace and tranquility. Thanks to all the fans for this year. I love them all. Daniel Schifter. PLAYLIST Die Krupps, Naziz auf Speed. Spetsnaz, Apathy. Feindflug, Erstzteil. And One, Zerstörer Deaf Rage, Out of Control. Feindflug, Roter Schnee. #ArañaFm --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ebmschifter/message

Two Army soldiers, two Spetsnaz soldiers and Jim Fuller walk into a bar…In this episode Lefty and Brian pull out all the stops and bring you the best of the best for the Season 3 AK Korner Finale! We've got Warriors, Authors, Actors, Inventors & Builders! Lefty and Brian are joined by two former Soviet Spetsnaz soldiers: Sonny Puzikas & Marco Vorobiev, two former US Army soldiers: Jeff Kirkahm & Neil Vermillion) and the Godfather … TLP 420 – AK KORNER S3 EP12 Finale Pt. 1: Jim Fuller, Sonny Puzikas, Marco Vorobiev, Jeff Kirkham & Neil Vermillion Read More »

https://chtbl.com/track/118312/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/talkinglead/AKK_S3_Ep12_Finale_Pt_1.mp3 Two Army soldiers, two Spetsnaz soldiers and Jim Fuller walk into a bar...In this episode Lefty and Brian pull out all the stops and bring you the best of the best for the Season 3 AK Korner Finale! We've got Warriors, Authors, Actors, Inventors & Builders! Lefty and Brian are joined by two former Soviet Spetsnaz soldiers: Sonny Puzikas & Marco Vorobiev, two former US Army soldiers: Jeff Kirkahm & Neil Vermillion) and the Godfather of the AK-47, Jim Fuller. Topics include: combat and trench art stories, over the the top vs under the receiver AK manipulations, ammunition, sight-in distances, whiskey, safety switch modifications and more whiskey. We answer listener questions and reward several of you with prizes from our sponsors and guests! Powered by: IWI USMission First TacticalOccam Defense SolutionsASP USASEAL 1Faktory 47 "LEADUCATING THE UNLEADUCATED" since 2012 -Talking Lead Podcast Marco Vorobiev, Jeff Kirkham, Sonny Puzikas, Lefty, Neil Vermillion, Brian Keeney, Jim Fuller, Dave Edelman Marco Vorobiev, Jeff Kirkham, Sonny Puzikas, Lefty, Neil Vermillion, Brian Keeney, Jim Fuller, Dave Edelman Jeff Kirkham - Talking Lead Sonny Puzikas - Talking Lead Marco Vorobiev - Talking Lead Jim Fuller - Talking Lead Neil Vermillion - Talking Lead

We are back with our next exciting adventure! We talk about many things including what is new in the news and what hobbies we have been doing.  There is talk about the next Zero Dark Thirty Kickstarter, Oriskany Jim's next Battlegroup game taking place in the Pacific as well as an upcoming game involving Zulus!     Grab your brush or cuppa and let's hit it! 

Episode 117: It's known as “The Graveyard of Empires,” and its history certainly lives up to the nickname— as news about Afghanistan is plastered across television screens throughout America, let's take a look at the history of the country so many know so little about. Part 1 of 2.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingThe Other Afghan Women: LinkThe Kill Team Photos: LinkThe CIA's Afghan Death Squads: LinkUS Marine sniper unit photographed with 'Nazi SS' flag: LinkThe Taliban Peace Deal Might Have Been Had Many Years and Thousands of Lives Ago: LinkRemembering the Saur Revolution: LinkThe Taliban indoctrinates kids with jihadist textbooks paid for by the U.S.: LinkBush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over: LinkGeopolitics, profit, and poppies: how the CIA turned Afghanistan into a failed narco-state: LinkLife of the Amir Dost Mohammad Khan of Kabul: Link“If She Escapes She Will Publish Everything”: Lady Sale and the Media Frenzy of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842): LinkThe Saur Revolution and After: LinkThe Causes of the Second Anglo-Afghan War, a Probe into the Reality of the International Relations in Central Asia in the Second Half of the 19th Century: LinkGovernment and Society in Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir ‘Abd Al-Rahman Khan: LinkStorm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979: Link

Conquerors and nations have been trying to rebuild Afghanistan in their own image for thousands of years. The U.S. is just the latest to fail.The Soviet Union also failed, with a little push from the United States. But they learned their lesson in only 10 years, from 1979-1989.Mark Galeotti joins us today to talk about the lessons the U.S. probably should have learned from the USSR. He's Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and has literally written the book - no three books! - on this very subject. We'll put links in the show notes.Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979The Panjshir Valley 1980–86Afghanistan: The Soviet Union's Last War See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Destacamentos de élite del SOBR, del FSB o del Ministerio de Defensa entre otros se 'gradúan' en Chechenia, con las pruebas más extremas. Te lo cuentan 🏍️ Julio 'Caronte' y 🚴 Esaú Rodríguez. Produce 👨‍🚀 Dani CarAn Edita 🐼 Marco Producciones Casus Belli Podcast es un Podcast de la 🏭 Factoría Casus Belli. Casus Belli Podcast forma parte del sello 📀 Ivoox Originals. 📡Estamos en: http;//podcastcasusbelli.com 👉https://podcastcasusbelli.com 🗨️Twitter, como @casusbellipod 👉Facebook, nuestra página es @casusbellipodcast https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast 👉Telegram, nuestro canal es @casusbellipodcast https://t.me/casusbellipodcast Y nuestro chat es https://t.me/aviones10 ⭐¿Quieres proponernos algo? También puedes escribirnos a 📧 info@podcastcasusbelli.com Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un like 👍, si nos escuchas desde la app de Ivoox. Y también que comentes. Que no mordemos 😉 🎵 La música que acompaña al pódcast es Ready For the War de Marc Corominas Pujadó, bajo licencia Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ . Y el resto de música está amparado por la licencia privada de Epidemic Music, Jamendo Music o de SGAE de Ivoox. ⚛️ El logotipo de Casus Belli y de la Factoría Casus Belli están diseñados por Publicidad Fabián publicidadfabian@yahoo.es 🎭 Las opiniones expresadas en este programa de pódcast, son de exclusiva responsabilidad individual. Que cada palo aguante su vela. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Noted author and USAF Veteran Dale Brown's novel Arctic Storm Rising is about USAF intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn who is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier.  As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Flynn and his security team are ordered to parachute into the area in a desperate bid to reach the crash sites ahead of the Russians. It's now obvious that the Pentagon and CIA are withholding vital information, but Flynn and his men have no choice but to make the dangerous jump.  Soon they're caught in a deadly game of hide-and-seek with Spetsnaz commandos operating covertly on American soil.  Dale talks about the writing process, stories ripped from the headlines, and technology advances with host Jim Fausone.

Web Novel Site : https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/wiki/authors/AgroSquerril  If You enjoyed consider leaving a Tip : https://www.paypal.me/agrosquerril  OR Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/agrosquerrils    {TimeStamps} 00:00 Intro 00:36 Xtrrli's List The Reverse Spetsnaz by The_Zet Check Out the Podcasts!   Greetings Ladies and Mentlegents and welcome to my channel where I like to make LEGAL Audiobooks of various types from web novels and short stories. If you are new to the channel then click on the information icon for the entire playlist to help get you up to current faster. This Oneshot was Taken from the HFY subreddit which hosts mostly Sci-Fi based short stories called oneshots and series. As Always i hope you enjoy and can find some content on my channel you like. Feel free to recommend a series or a story and i will have a look into it. Email : Agrosquerrils@gmail.com  Twitter : https://twitter.com/agrosquerrils  Streamlabs : https://streamlabs.com/agrosquerrils  Discord : https://discord.gg/XeMwEqX  All Donation are welcome and much appreciated. Thank you all for listening and your support.   Youtube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcfzFNUhrNS0-gdyOWx2JEqL14UrG6TTd  

Adam Rader (Rigorous Institution, Bluebird, Lifeform, Spetsnaz, Captagon) takes a break from writing his Novel to chat with us about some of his favorite acoustic guitar jams. Listen and enjoy the soothing talking voice of Adam Rader!Link to our Spotify playlists below.https://open.spotify.com/user/fm0qfa19xtht0yb0amoqx1o1f?si=uuo8nIiUS02745zydDYLDgTo help us produce more episodes please consider giving to our Patreon. It can be found at www.patreon.com/Topfivepod

It's Flashback Friday: music anywhere from 1974 to 2020! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Today's episode features music by Spetsnaz, Sleepwalk, F.O.D., WANT/ed, Cabaret Voltaire, dAVOS, DEVO, Agregat, Act, The Thompson Twins, Circuit3, Spark!, BlutEngel, Zynik 14, Detachments, D:/fe.at, PAIL, Presence Of Mind, Waiting For Words, Noise Unit, Anne Clark, Duran Duran, The Shamen, Sequencia, Sly Fox, Ministry, Sero.Overdose, and Wave In Head!

It's Flashback Friday: music anywhere from 1974 to 2020! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Today's episode features music by Spetsnaz, Sleepwalk, F.O.D., WANT/ed, Cabaret Voltaire, dAVOS, DEVO, Agregat, Act, The Thompson Twins, Circuit3, Spark!, BlutEngel, Zynik 14, Detachments, D:/fe.at, PAIL, Presence Of Mind, Waiting For Words, Noise Unit, Anne Clark, Duran Duran, The Shamen, Sequencia, Sly Fox, Ministry, Sero.Overdose, and Wave In Head!

It's Flashback Friday: music anywhere from 1974 to 2020! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Today's episode features music by Spetsnaz, Sleepwalk, F.O.D., WANT/ed, Cabaret Voltaire, dAVOS, DEVO, Agregat, Act, The Thompson Twins, Circuit3, Spark!, BlutEngel, Zynik 14, Detachments, D:/fe.at, PAIL, Presence Of Mind, Waiting For Words, Noise Unit, Anne Clark, Duran Duran, The Shamen, Sequencia, Sly Fox, Ministry, Sero.Overdose, and Wave In Head!

Former Russian Spetsnaz Sonny Puzikas hangs out to chop it up on the State of Things & More! www.sonnypuzikas.com www.rokfin.com/thatpodcastnetwork www.blackoxygenorganics.com/jefferywilson

Fredag 21 augusti 2020, Vera Efron är i Minsk, Belarus, för att studerar Spetsnaz och rapporterar här en hel del saker som förvånar och skrämmer henne. Fruktansvärda vittnesmål men också frågan; vart har alla de försvunna protestanter tagit vägen? Lukaschenkos gamla och diktatoriska metoder misslyckades, då tog han kontakt med Putin; vad fick han för råd och hjälp? Och, vad har förgiftningen av den omåttligt populäre ryske oppositionspolitikern Alexei Navalny och den belarusiska oppositionspolitikern Svetlana Georgijevna Tichanovskaja med varandra att göra? Hade den ryska säkerhetstjänsten FSB med detta att göra? Gäst: Vera Efron En podcast av: Mikael Hylin Musik: Anton Fossum-Hylin Redaktör: Lærke Rasmussen Omslag: Svjatlana Tsichanouskaja_DN/webben_Foto: Sergei Gapon/AFP Friskrivningsklausul: Berättelserna, de fakta som presenteras samt synpunkter och åsikter som uttrycks i denna Podcast är endast synpunkter av de som presenterar och/eller intervjuas och återspeglar inte Spionpoddens officiella policy eller ståndpunkt. Grunden i vår journalistik är trovärdighet och opartiskhet. Spionpodden är oberoende i förhållande till politiska, religiösa, ekonomiska, offentliga och privata särintressen. En ideell självständig podcast som inte styrs eller ägs av någon tredje part. Disclaimer: The stories told, facts presented, and views and opinions expressed in this Podcast are solely those of the presenter or interviewee and do not reflect the official policy or position of Spionpodden. Spionpodden is independent in relation to political, religious, economic, public and private special interests. A non-profit independent podcast that is not controlled or owned by any third party.

Meet Galina Parfenova in this extra episode, who from inside Belarus and it's capital Minsk reports about an election marred by allegations of widespread electoral fraud. Galina guides us through election day and how life has been since until today the 13th of August 2020. Also; who is Lukashenko (Europe's last dictator) and where does he come from? Why are Spetsnaz acting so brutal on the protesting population; are they really Belarusian? Guest: Galina Parfenova (with scientific degrees; Professor and Doctor) A podcast by: Mikael Hylin Music: Anton Fossum-Hylin Story editor: Lærke Rasmussen Cover: Lukashenko (Belt & Road News) Friskrivningsklausul: Berättelserna, de fakta som presenteras samt synpunkter och åsikter som uttrycks i denna Podcast är endast synpunkter av de som presenterar och/eller intervjuas och återspeglar inte Spionpoddens officiella policy eller ståndpunkt. Grunden i vår journalistik är trovärdighet och opartiskhet. Spionpodden är oberoende i förhållande till politiska, religiösa, ekonomiska, offentliga och privata särintressen. En ideell självständig podcast som inte styrs eller ägs av någon tredje part. Disclaimer: The stories told, facts presented, and views and opinions expressed in this Podcast are solely those of the presenter or interviewee and do not reflect the official policy or position of Spionpodden. Spionpodden is independent in relation to political, religious, economic, public and private special interests. A non-profit independent podcast that is not controlled or owned by any third party.

Meet Galina Parfenova in this extra episode, who from inside Belarus and it's capital Minsk reports about the election with a result many doubt and question. Galina guides us through election day and how life has been since until today the 13th of August 2020. Also; who is Lukashenko (Europe's last dictator) and where does he come from? Why are Spetsnaz acting so brutal; are they really Belarusian? Guest: Galina Parfenova (with scientific degrees; Professor and Doctor) A podcast by: Mikael Hylin Music: Anton Fossum-Hylin Story editor: Lærke Rasmussen Cover: Lukashenko: from Belt and Road News Friskrivningsklausul: Berättelserna, de fakta som presenteras samt synpunkter och åsikter som uttrycks i denna Podcast är endast synpunkter av de som presenterar och/eller intervjuas och återspeglar inte Spionpoddens officiella policy eller ståndpunkt. Grunden i vår journalistik är trovärdighet och opartiskhet. Spionpodden är oberoende i förhållande till politiska, religiösa, ekonomiska, offentliga och privata särintressen. En ideell självständig podcast som inte styrs eller ägs av någon tredje part. Disclaimer: The stories told, facts presented, and views and opinions expressed in this Podcast are solely those of the presenter or interviewee and do not reflect the official policy or position of Spionpodden. Spionpodden is independent in relation to political, religious, economic, public and private special interests. A non-profit independent podcast that is not controlled or owned by any third party.

Matt is an Athetic Trainer, TACFIT Team Leader and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Brown Belt. He just finished filming Kettlebell Spetsnaz 101 for TACFIT.com. Scott Sonnon original Spetsnaz program was his introduction to the system, 10 years prior to the day. I always enjoy and learn talking to Matt about training, nutrition and more.

The Spetsnaz officers finally arrive at Site 6, unsure of what horrors they might find. The regiment spreads out and then all hell breaks loose. Find out what happens next as we continue Cold Dead Hand, a Delta Green scenario. Starring: Craig as Captain Sergei Kozlov Dave as Warrant Officer Viktor Muradov Jeff as Warrant Officer Nikolay Korovin Flynn as Warrant Officer Vladimir Kriptoshenko   Want to leave a comment? -Email therancorsbrothel@gmail.com.  -Follow us on Twitter @Rancors_Brothel.   -Check us out online at rancorsbrothel.com 

With the certain death of their comrades, it becomes obvious to the Spetsnaz soldiers that their lives mean nothing, only the mission does. And some new intel from an unexpected source sheds a horrific light on what lies ahead. We continue Cold Dead Hand, a Delta Green scenario. Starring: Craig as Captain Sergei Kozlov Dave as Warrant Officer Viktor Muradov Jeff as Warrant Officer Nikolay Korovin Flynn as Warrant Officer Vladimir Kriptoshenko   Want to leave a comment? -Email therancorsbrothel@gmail.com.  -Follow us on Twitter @Rancors_Brothel.   -Check us out online at rancorsbrothel.com 

It's Monday, August 29, 1991. Yesterday, Soviet Premier Gorbachev was removed from office in a coup. It is a time of uncertainty for the world, especially the U.S.S.R.  Yet far from the political turmoil in Moscow, a team of Spetsnaz deploys on an unusual mission. We begin Cold Dead Hand, a Delta Green scenario.   Starring: Craig as Captain Sergei Kozlov Dave as Warrant Officer Viktor Muradov Jeff as Warrant Officer Nikolay Korovin Flynn as Warrant Officer Vladimir Kriptoshenko   Want to leave a comment? -Email therancorsbrothel@gmail.com.  -Follow us on Twitter @Rancors_Brothel.   -Check us out online at rancorsbrothel.com 

Räddade Spetsnaz och Putin livet på turkiets president Erdogan? Vad gjorde Spetsnaz i Sverige samtidigt som Ubåten U137 stod på grund och varför vägrade Sovjetunionen låta svenskarna dra loss ubåten? Försvara Gotland! Nedskjutningen av Malaysia Airlines Flight 17...en provokation?! Ännu en gång gästar Vera Efron Spionpodden där hon avslöjar spännande och okända detaljer om världshändelser där Spetsnaz haft en avgörande roll. Hon berättar även ur sin bok 'Spetsnaz - de ryska specialstyrkorna' Omslagsbild: Spetsnaz - de ryska specialstyrkorna av Vera Efron En podd av: Mikael Hylin Musik: Anton Fossum-Hylin Redaktör: Lærke Rasmussen Friskrivningsklausul: Berättelserna, de fakta som presenteras samt synpunkter och åsikter som uttrycks i denna Podcast är endast synpunkter av de som presenterar och/eller intervjuas och återspeglar inte Spionpoddens officiella policy eller ståndpunkt. Grunden i vår journalistik är trovärdighet och opartiskhet. Spionpodden är oberoende i förhållande till politiska, religiösa, ekonomiska, offentliga och privata särintressen. En ideell självständig podcast som inte styrs eller ägs av någon tredje part. Disclaimer: The stories told, facts presented, and views and opinions expressed in this Podcast are solely those of the presenter or interviewee and do not reflect the official policy or position of Spionpodden. Spionpodden is independent in relation to political, religious, economic, public and private special interests. A non-profit independent podcast that is not controlled or owned by any third party.

Flashback Friday: songs anywhere from 1974 to 2018! Futurepop, Synthpop, EBM, Industrial, Darkwave, Synthwave, and so much more! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Buy their music! Like their social media pages! Go see them on tour! Today's episode features music by Stacy 16, Infecticide, Data Kino, Slighter, L'Avenir, Dismantled, Betamaxx, Human Puppets, Skinny Puppy, Spiritual Cramp, Moenia, Costume, Linea Aspera, Retractor, Grauzone, Plastic Noise Experience, Rename, Pure Ground, The Mobile Homes, Spetsnaz, Leæther Strip, The B-52's, Neikka RPM, Inter-Connection, Run Vaylor, Lebanon Hanover, Provision, Final Illusion, Depeche Mode, and Reizstrom!

Flashback Friday: songs anywhere from 1974 to 2018! Futurepop, Synthpop, EBM, Industrial, Darkwave, Synthwave, and so much more! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Buy their music! Like their social media pages! Go see them on tour! Today's episode features music by Stacy 16, Infecticide, Data Kino, Slighter, L'Avenir, Dismantled, Betamaxx, Human Puppets, Skinny Puppy, Spiritual Cramp, Moenia, Costume, Linea Aspera, Retractor, Grauzone, Plastic Noise Experience, Rename, Pure Ground, The Mobile Homes, Spetsnaz, Leæther Strip, The B-52's, Neikka RPM, Inter-Connection, Run Vaylor, Lebanon Hanover, Provision, Final Illusion, Depeche Mode, and Reizstrom!

Flashback Friday: songs anywhere from 1974 to 2018! Futurepop, Synthpop, EBM, Industrial, Darkwave, Synthwave, and so much more! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Buy their music! Like their social media pages! Go see them on tour! Today's episode features music by Stacy 16, Infecticide, Data Kino, Slighter, L'Avenir, Dismantled, Betamaxx, Human Puppets, Skinny Puppy, Spiritual Cramp, Moenia, Costume, Linea Aspera, Retractor, Grauzone, Plastic Noise Experience, Rename, Pure Ground, The Mobile Homes, Spetsnaz, Leæther Strip, The B-52's, Neikka RPM, Inter-Connection, Run Vaylor, Lebanon Hanover, Provision, Final Illusion, Depeche Mode, and Reizstrom!

Pavel Tsatsouline, is the Chairman of StrongFirst, Inc., a fitness instructor who has introduced SPETSNAZ training techniques from the former Soviet Union to US Navy SEALs, Marines and Army Special Forces, and shortly thereafter to the American public.

Pavel Tsatsouline, is the Chairman of StrongFirst, Inc., a fitness instructor who has introduced SPETSNAZ training techniques from the former Soviet Union to US Navy SEALs, Marines and Army Special Forces, and shortly thereafter to the American public.

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TUDW EP 56 – The Outpost Trilogy On this episode I'm joined but the incorrigible Mr Peter Nielsen (@Peter_Nielsen) and we are talking the Outpost Trilogy. Outpost (2008) A world-weary group of mercenary soldiers are sent to investigate a long-since used WWII bunker where something dark and dangerous lurks. Release date: 16 May 2008 (United Kingdom) Director: Steve Barker Film series: Outpost Initial DVD release: 11 March 2008 Story by: Steve Barker, Kieran Parker, Rae Brunton Outpost: Black Sun (2012) A NATO task force tracks a Nazi war criminal and stumbles upon an army of walking dead Nazi soldiers killing their way across Europe. Release date: 2012 (United Kingdom) Director: Steve Barker Film series: Outpost Initial DVD release: 27 April 2012 (Germany) Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz (2013) Undead Nazis have gladiator-like battles with elite Russian Spetsnaz soldiers. Initial release: 27 June 2013 Director: Kieran Parker Initial DVD release: 25 October 2013 (Germany) Screenplay: Rae Brunton Music composed by: Al Hardiman, Patrick Jonsson On What The Wookie Watched I solo review Death Trench (2017) Don't forget to subscribe on SoundCloud and ITunes and leave us some 5 star reviews. You can also find me @THEUNDEADWOOKIE on Twitter, @TheUndeadWookie1980 on Instagram or on The Undead Wookie Facebook page. Please visit the GO Fund Me page for School Hall Slaughter and leave us a small donation.

Ep. 59 WHO? IS? DEADLIEST? Mitchell Sanregret & Dustin Meisinger are here to talk about a show with a dope premise and a fizzle of a finish: it's Deadliest Warrior! We run through all 33 match-ups as Mitch & Dustin try to remember or guess who was the deadliest warrior - at least as the show/Slitherine Studios was concerned. Not only that but we also discuss the video game Chivalry's mod for Deadliest Warrior; the definitive gaming experience for this series. Follow this show on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook! Music credits: Intro sample: “March of the Spoons” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Outro sample: “Port Horizon” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Former Russian Spetsnaz Sonny Puzikas comes by to discuss the seige and tragedy that occurred at a School in 2004 in Beslan, Russia and MUCH MORE!!! https://www.sonnypuzikas.com/ Support The Farm! https://www.patreon.com/TheConspiracyFarm https://stofmahub.com/collections/the-conspiracy-farm https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=QPX9TJFVF69C4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5XXip2nFxc&t=1s

The Senior Staff is back at full force! Back from vacation, Alex and Bruce are talking about records from Spetsnaz and Gatekeeper. Also on the docket is Resident Advisor's piece on EBM...which may have had some influence on our choice of albums this week. We're charged up and ready to go: I Die: You Die, you know what it is!

In this episode Sonny and Nate delve into the OODA loop, where most of us are getting it all wrong, tactical virtue signaling, the lethality of comfort and how to time share your first Makarov pistol.

Om framgångssagan Vladimir Putin. Efter 18 år vid makten är han fortfarande populär. Och hans auktoritära modell sprids nu över världen. Hur kunde det bli så här? Vladimir Putin har skapat en modern diktatur, en diktatur utan ideologi, som smidigt använder sig av ny teknologi och en globaliserad ekonomi - en modell som nu sprider sig över världen. Det säger Rysslands mest kända och fräna regimkritiker, Garry Kasparov, före detta världsmästare i schack, med ett förflutet som rysk oppositionspolitiker, som numera bor i USA, där han är ordförande för organisationen Human Rights Foundation. Konflikts Ivar Ekman träffade honom när han var på besök i Stockholm. Veckans Konflikt söker förklaringar till Vladimir Putins framgångar: Är det den ryska historien? Är det Putins medhjälpare i väst? Eller finns svaret i djupet i det mänskliga psyket?   För många har begreppet Putins Ryssland blivit synonymt med ett system som utvecklats i en alltmer auktoritär riktning - där oliktänkande på olika sätt trycks tillbaka, eller straffas, där pengarna styrs uppifrån och där medborgarna matas med bilden av en framgångssaga genom en välsmord tv-propaganda. En del talar till och med om att det gamla Sovjetsystemet är på väg tillbaka. Hur blev det så här - och vilken roll har Vladimir Putin själv spelat för att skapa ett auktoritärt system? Sveriges Radios korrespondent Johanna Melén intervjuar journalisten Marina Litvinovitj och den politiske konsulten Gleb Pavlovskij, som båda var med och arbetade med Vladimir Putin när han kom till makten 1999, men som i dag är mycket kritiska till resultatet av hans år vid makten. Hon träffar också den politiska analytikern Dmitrij Oresjkin och Aleksej Muchin som leder Centret för politisk information i Moskva och som skrivit flera böcker om Vladimir Putin. Muchin menar att Putins Ryssland har blivit en förebild ute i världen. Ofta kan man i andra länder höra, också i Europa, att "vi skulle vilja ha en sådan president som Putin", säger Aleksej Muchin till Johanna Melén. Vad är det som gör den här politiska modellen en stark, populär ledare i en svag, korrupt fejkdemokrati står så stabilt på världsarenan, och verkar vara på frammarsch i så många delar av världen? Kan det vara så att en del av förklaringarna till Putins framgångar, både som ledare i Ryssland och som modell utomlands, ligger i djupet av människans psyke? Konflikts Ivar Ekman ringde upp den amerikanska doktoranden Matthew MacWilliams som studerat den auktoritära personligheten i politiken och statsvetarprofessorn Marc Hetherington, vid Vanderbildtuniversitetet USA. Vi hör också Theodor W Adorno som intervjuades av Ingegerd Lundgren i Sveriges Radio i maj 1965. En annan faktor att ta in är att auktoritära regimer har blivit bra på att marknadsföra sig, putsa upp sina fasader utåt. Det kan de göra med hjälp av västliga PR-byråer. Konflikts Anja Sahlberg försöker förstå PR-byråernas, lobbyisternas och konsulternas ljusskygga värld. Hon pratar med Katharine Ainger som arbetar för Corporate Europe Observatory i Bryssel och Lydia Dennett på Project On Government Oversight i Washington. Kampsport är en ingrediens i Vladimir Putins framgångsrecept.Han har svart bälte i judo och har tränat den ryska kampsporten sambo, ett självförsvarssystem som utvecklats i det forna Sovjetunionen för specialförbandet Spetsnaz. I Vasastan i Stockholm tränar 25-åriga Bakhruz Nagdaliev från Ryssland. Han tror på Putin och det han själv kallar den ryska mentaliteten - att kunna slåss och försvara sig. Konflikts Sofia Pappa träffade honom efter ett träningspass.   Programledare: Ivar Ekman ivar.ekman@sverigesradio.se Producent: Anja Sahlberg anja.sahlberg@sverigesradio.se

Former Russian Spetsnaz Sonny Puzikas returns to talk about the Shooting in Florida. The Many Political Divisions we see. And NATOs Encirclement of Russia. And SO MUCH More!! STAY TUNED!! #TCF #TheConspiracyFarm #SonnyPuzikas #NATO #Russia #SupportTheFarm https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=QPX9TJFVF69C4

Den eminenta professorn i militärhistoria Lars Ericson Wolke gör oss åter sällskap i Pennan & Svärdets podcast. Denna gång i en intervju med Per Wallin om den nyutkomna boken Krig med Ryssland, skriven av general Richard Shirreff. Boken skildrar ett storkrig som är på väg att bryta ut i Östersjöområdet inom en mycket snar framtid. Eller har det rentav redan börjat?

Not a massive amount going on this week, aside for a turgid NxtGen card - which Terry and Martin both refused to watch - so it was "decided" (enforced) that we'd do a listeners questions "special" (thank f*** we had enough to fill a whole podcast) podcast! We talk about boxing 20 years from now, McGregor and Mayweather at Wrestlemania (I think - it all blurs into one after a while). We discuss how awesome Eddie Hearn is (if you've listened before now, you'll know that's a filthy lie) and wade through the myriad of excellent and imaginative questions - thank you so much (no, really - thank you for saving the pod)... SO, with more questions than Paxman conducting a Spetsnaz interrogation in Guantanamo Bay, the pod zaps your giblets with a cattle prod! Get in touch: @newageboxinguk @the7wolves @newagepodfather

A very enlightening and disturbing discussion with former Spetsnaz Sonny Puzikas on his early life in Russia. Training to become a member of Spetsnaz. His thoughts on Global issues & MUCH MORE!! DONT MISS THIS!! www.sonnypuzikas.com Support The Farm!! https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=QPX9TJFVF69C4

Redan 1978 hade Sovjet bestämt sig för att installera en egen president i Afghanistan. Det var sen i december 1979 som kuppen genomfördes. Med en extremt noggrant planerad kupp var idén att ta över landet på så kort tid som möjligt och med så små egna förluster som möjligt. Och det var Spetsnaz-förband som hade till uppgift att storma presidentpalatset i Kabul.

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I talk with Spetsnaz on how the "Men Going Their Own Way" phenomenon is allowing men and boys to redefine masculinity away from traditional gender roles as well as toxic feminist interpretations of manhood. We discuss coping strategies, Gynocentrism, boxing, systema, male violence, men who are victims of prison rape etc.

1. Zombie Nation - Triple Glazed2. Royksopp feat. Robyn - Momentum Dance (Marcus Marr Dub)3. Jensen Interceptor - Hood Anthem4. Bart B More - WinAmp5. Madame & Deapmash - Compact6. Cardopusher - Timestamp7. VEGA22 - R.A.W.8. Marseille - UFO Attack9. Dem Slackers - Swagger (Clouds Remix)10. Polymorphic - Destruct Noise11. RYME - Pusse (Don Rimini Remix)12. A Copy For Collapse  - Grey Sunday (Proxy Remix)13. Crookers - Belly Button Tickler (feat. Mr. MFN eXquire)14. Matte Blakk - Wise Guys With Ray Guns15. Autodidakt - Fucked Up16. Alesia - Ivo17. Cazzette - Sleepless (A-Trak Remix)18. Aylen - Rafiki 19. Zeskullz - 00.00.000020. Gold Rush - Drop Low21. Proxy - OldBoy From the ashes of the Soviet empire, from the flames of history, rises PROXY. Post 9/11 rave vibes cloaked in Muscovite angst. A line drawn in smoking rubble along the border dividing East and West, Stüssy and Spetsnaz.  1997. The Year of Tar and Horses. The Prodigy plays Red Square in Moscow. Hundreds of thousands of people attend the show, but only one is truly changed. By the crushing sound. By people absolutely losing their shit to synths and sustained aggression. The experience causes PROXY to question the quality and purpose of Russian “electrica” acts like Nu-Lag Xpressions and Sweatislav. There was simply no scene from which to emerge. “Whatever a fool does, he does it wrong. A poor dancer is impeded even by his own balls,” he recalls. In a decade's time, PROXY would be remixing Prodigy and opening for them on a massive tour of Russia. 2004. PROXY grows interested in the increasingly punishing sounds of the electro scene, as he hears Tiga sing “Hey You Little Children of Glasnost” at the W Hotel in Anzhero-Sudzhensk. 2006. PROXY reaches out to Tiga via his MySpace page. Thomas Von Party intercepts the message and is stunned by fully formed landmines like “Destroy”. Masquerading as Tiga, he signs PROXY to Turbo Recordings, beginning his own deceit-fueled ascent up the biz-ladder of the music ladder-business. 2007 to present. PROXY earns respect and awe from such heavyweights as Justice, Soulwax, Boys Noize, Erol Alkan and Mr. Oizo with astonishing, severe tracks like “Decoy”, “Dance in Dark” and the massive “Raven”, which merits special mention not just because of its ubiquity, but because it illustrates in full the singular power of PROXY MUSIC. Recall, if you will, the first time you were ever caught in an explosion. Close enough to the blast that the only things that register are a light beyond blinding and a sound that arrives too soon. Now imagine that as you lose your body to the fire you are reassembled, better, your self subsumed by something far greater (for many, this experience seems to manifest itself as sitting in obedient unison). The sound now commands you, transmuting you into the screaming, searing blare. PROXY has also produced remixes for Peaches, Prodigy, Tiga, Boys Noize, Chromeo, Digitalism, Moby and a host of others willing to pay him in Kocmoc cigarettes. 2013 the second part of his debut opus 'Music from the east block Jungles is released. An ongoing tour has led us into mid 2014 with a debut release on Feed Me's 'Sotto Voce' Imprint with '10,000' to critical acclaim. The future is looking archaic. Twitter - @proxxxy Soundcloud - PROXY Facebook - Proxy

It’s Monday, August 19th, 1991.  Yesterday, Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev was removed from office in a coup arranged by hard-line communists in his government.  Protests against the coup are breaking out across the Soviet Union.  Nationalist insurgents in the various Soviet republics are declaring independence from the illegitimate State Committee for the state of emergency. This story follows members of a Soviet Spetsnaz, or Special Forces, unit chosen for their political prowess and physical fitness.  After months of intense training and as much as two years of service in Afghanistan for some, they are hardened combat veterans.  Many suspect that the coup plotters intend to use the reliable Spetsnaz units to bully the opposition into line.  However, fate has intervened and this Spetsnaz unit has been kicked out of bed for a less political, but even more pressing assignment. Side Chatter PLAYERS Hannah – Warrant Officer Kriptoshenko Josh – Senior Lieutenant Fedorenko Matt –  Warrant Officer Nikolay Vladimirovich Korovin Travis – Warrant Officer Vitaly Vasilyevich Sirk The post Call of Cthulhu – Cold Dead Hand appeared first on The Drunk and The Ugly.

How can one simple robbery go so wrong? Will players Christine Blight, Mara Dyne, Austin Ramsay, and William Walsh pull of the heist of the half year? Nyet. You can purchase 'Fiasco' online here! 'What Is Love' © Hanseatic Musikverlag Gmbh & Co. Love Mara and want to see more of her? Of course you do! She can be found on Twitter @MaraDyne. Twitter is NSFW.