Monthly Archive:: January 2018
24 Jan 2018
InfoMullet: Swinging the Olive Branch
TLDRUpFront: Turkey announces additional targets in its intervention into northern Syria including strategic towns on the road to Kobani. Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga, invoking the spirit of Kobani, threaten to respond by deploying into Syria. Meanwhile Russia and the US largely stand behind their respective partners without taking much of an active role as the conflict
19 Jan 2018
InfoMullet: Turkey Intervenes Against Syrian Kurds
TLDR UpFront: After a serious US communications blunder about intentions along the northern Syria border, Turkey intervened militarily into Syria Civil War for the second time. Launching artillery strikes against the Kurdish town of Afrin northwest of Aleppo, Syria - a ground movement is expected soon. Though limited in scope - the move may seek
09 Jan 2018
InfoMullet: The Defenestration of Bannon
TLDR UpFront: Steve Bannon resigned his position at Brietbart News Tuesday night. For the man who popularized the term alt-right and was once seen as the grand strategist of Trumpism this continues a six-month plummet. It began with Steve being booted from the White House, then backing a GOP candidate who couldn't win in deep-red
01 Jan 2018
HistoricalMullet Series: From 9/11 to Iraq
Seven HistoricalMullets have been added to the series "From 9/11 to Iraq." This series includes the very first analysis and commentary of what would evolve into the InfoMullet. It covers the period of time between just before the first anniversary of 9/11 in 2002 and to the eve of the invasion into Iraq in