Oswedo’s been a pretty good one to read in the past.
I haven’t given his thread discussions that LJ linked their full review. Trying to do too many things at the same time. I will give it a better read tomorrow. The convention has kind of taken my attention away from intense reading.
Thomas Wictor (e.g. Carlos Osweda as he now calls himself after being banned on Twitter) may be entertaining but he’s certainly just expressing his opinions. I follow some ex-military people who have said categorically that he’s full of crap on military and intelligence matters, and they have years of experience that he doesn’t have (other than WWI flamethrowers, which I think they would concede).
I don’t know anything about him and stopped following him years ago, but I’d look for confirmation before taking his theories to the bank. He has written books in the past and his bio is out on the web, so you can read and decide what you think for yourself:
http://www.thomaswictor.com/about/