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by | Dec 20, 2022

Thirty years ago, as the post–Cold War era dawned, the United States formally transferred control of the U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay to the Philippine government. The Washington Post reported on Nov. 24, 1992, that the transfer ended 94 years…

by | Nov 24, 2022

There is a reason why William Manchester began his magnificent biography of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, American Caesar, with the fighting on Missionary Ridge during the Civil War’s Battle of Chattanooga on Nov. 25, 1863. On that date, as Union soldiers…

by | Jun 3, 2022

It was a pleasure reading about strong and competent leadership brought to bear when it was absolutely necessary. But I couldn’t avoid a tinge of sadness as well when realizing that, while we’re now in perilous times again, leadership, political…

by | Oct 10, 2021

There is serious talk of war in the South China Sea, as Chinese air incursions into Taiwan’s air defense space increase and the rhetoric of war becomes all too commonplace. What political scientist Graham Allison called the “Thucydides Trap” (war…

by | Aug 22, 2021

The debacle in Afghanistan is a failure of America’s political and military elites. It is a bipartisan failure stretching back 20 years. But it was preceded by similar losses in Korea, Southeast Asia, and Iraq — failures that resulted from…

by | Jan 23, 2021

Last week in his morning newsletter, American Spectator writer Daniel J. Flynn summed up the Trump years in a single paragraph. He ended it with these words: Republicans evolved from invertebrates to vertebrates in the past four years. Donald Trump…

by | Dec 22, 2018

Secretary of Defense James Mattis is leaving. As with every one of these outgoing Trump appointees, the “mainstream” media has gone into a full meltdown upon their announced departure (despite, in most cases, that same media having lambasted those appointees…

by | Dec 14, 2016

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago last week was famously the “day which will live in infamy.” Veterans of that horrible day were properly honored as intrepid members of the “Greatest Generation.” But, the December 7 disaster…

by | Aug 19, 2016

When back in June 2015 Donald Trump announced he was running for president, he said during his speech, “I will find the General Patton or I will find General MacArthur. I will find the right guy. I will find the…

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