Nearly three months into Israel’s war in Gaza, the casualty data that has emerged is deeply troubling to me as an expert in close air support and targeting. Israel was wholly justified in responding to Hamas’s inhuman attack on Oct. 7, 2023, in which the terror group tortured and gunned down hundreds of people and entire families. But its aggressive campaign across the Gaza Strip…

I spent a military career in the war on terror as a US Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC)—the airpower experts who coordinate and call in airstrikes…. I strongly support the imperative for our ally Israel to defeat Hamas. But as an expert in targeting, collateral damage analysis, and strike coordination and control, I am compelled to share my perspective of Israel’s strike campaign in the Gaza Strip…

Explosive reports from major news outlets in September declared that, last year, tech guru and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk had shut down the Starlink service for the Ukrainian military in Crimea, thwarting Ukraine’s ability to conduct a major counteroffensive against the Russian navy…

Last December, weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the New York Times ran an article that describes a highly secretive strike cell operating during the U.S. campaign in Syria and run by a small task force of U.S. special operators. The Times depicts U.S. special operators in a narrative fit for a movie trailer…

In the United States, we often analyze distant armed conflicts and counterterrorism efforts as if watching from a remote observation tower…

June 2014 – Baghdad. We were treading a thin line, and we all knew it. I was the senior enlisted joint terminal attack controller for the 300-member special operations task force sent to Iraq to quell the rising threat of ISIS…

They started the US war against ISIS. Now they have an important message for Trump on abandoning the Kurds…

It was late August 2014.

I was one of the handful of American military forces in Baghdad, Iraq’s capital. Only a few months before, ISIS laid siege…