By the end of this essay I will demonstrate why there is no relevance or value in not only conventional maritime forces but military forces period, when responding to a terrorist threat. I will do this by showing different possible scenarios of likely terrorist targets and how we as a "conventional military" become less than adequate. Does anyone in the fre...
Father Francis X. Williams watched the fat man walk into the gift shop alcove in the back corner of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and slowly, quietly, pursued him. Francis, though he preferred Frank, didn't know why he followed the man. There was nothing particularly interesting about him. It was hard to tell what ethnicity he was, since his face was covered in...
On November 5th, Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, also known as the Fort Hood shooter, went through Ft. Hood with a handgun, equipped with a laser sight, and went on a shooting spree. Not too long ago, I mentioned that Terrorists Are Stupid. The more I learn about Maj. Hasan, the more evidence I have. For those of you who are not familiar with...
Yes, the title is exaggerated, but you're reading, aren't you? I must say, though, for the most part, terrorists are not the brightest lights in the night sky. Think about it. I can plan a better terrorist attack than any of these bozos. For example....You want terror? Screw blowing up the World Trade Center—over fifty thousand people worked there, and...
Author's Note: This story takes place prior to the CATU novel Ghosts. Before the organization of CATU has been formed. * Everyone get down on the floor!" The command erupts from the entrance of the school, thick with a Brazilian accent. School hasn't yet begun at Reed Elementary School before the men with guns burst in. "I said get down!" the man yells a...
I had always thought my High School creative writing teacher was joking when he claimed to be a hunted terrorist. I actually had no reason to doubt his story, aside from the fact that it sounded ludicrous. He was of medium height, medium weight, medium build, medium rare, with a black beard that barely covered his chin and thin lips; it was more of a ten PM...
For one week in October, the government declares pornography awareness week. Oh, wait, wait, I take that back. The Bush Administration renamed it "Protection Against Pornography Week" a few years ago. I know, puts a whole new spin on it, doesn't it? Because when I first saw, "Pornography Awareness Week," I thought, hey, cool! We're gonna have open debates...
The classes had been sitting on the floor for a little over three hours. They had been told by the terrorists that they couldn't leave to go to the bathroom, so the floor was pretty wet with the urine of several different people. Ashley shifted around a bit. She felt a large weight at the end of her colon and she didn't want to mess her pants. What would peo...
It was 1987. I was in Indianapolis for business and in a bar next to my hotel. It was a week night and not very crowded. Even if it had been crowded, these two young chicks would have stood out. One was very tall and thin, maybe 6'1", with curly black hair and a huge rack. The other was much shorter, about 5'6", a little curvier with a similarly impressive c...
I have thought about this very carefully. I know what we should do about this Moslem terrorist problem facing all the innocent people of the world. Sex. And lots of it. Since celibacy and sexual frustration are at the root of the problem. What I think we should do, all of us “infidels” here in New York City and Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania in America, L...