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by | Jan 5, 2024

I was very naïve when I left the military. I’d spent years concentrating on “leadership,” daydreaming about how I would perform under threat of gunfire and IEDs, scanning the daily news from Iraq, reading Medal of Honor citations, devouring memoirs…

by | Dec 29, 2023

Most Americans were as horrified as the Israelis when three Israeli hostages brandishing a white flag were killed by Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldiers in Gaza. I was saddened by the incident but not surprised. As a U.N. observer in…

by | Dec 17, 2023

The private-eye hero of my just finished new political thriller, The Apocalypse Mask, is a 30-something ex-Army Ranger who left the military because of its increased wokeness. Mark Slade didn’t quit out of political conviction but for self-preservation. He just…

by | Dec 4, 2023

The tragic thing about the modern world is that it believes it has explained everything. How does gravity keep us tought against the earth? Ask quantum physics. How do light bulbs turn on? Max Planck and Einstein found photons a…

by | Nov 15, 2023

If there is one group of Americans whose privacy should be respected — both for personal- and national-security reasons — it would be active-duty service members and military veterans. As it turns out, like the information of every other American,…

by | Nov 9, 2023

The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1296 is in a blue-collar area of suburban Minneapolis. With a UH-1 “Huey” helicopter permanently touching down by its doors and an M1 57mm anti-tank gun ensuring members of the public park correctly,…

by | Nov 2, 2023

Americans on both sides of the aisle were outraged by reports that Hamas had slaughtered 40 babies in their initial attack against Israel last month — and rightfully so. It’s hard to imagine anything more abhorrent and manifestly evil than…

by | Oct 28, 2023

Earlier this month, the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Estonia and Finland was damaged and had to be shut down.  This development follows a series of Baltic infrastructure hardware being destroyed, prompting NATO to increase its patrols in the region. With…

by | Oct 3, 2023

On Aug. 10, when President Joe Biden labeled the Chinese economy a ticking time bomb, he predicted that bad folks can do bad things when they face problems. A month later, after meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the…

by | Oct 3, 2023

The U.S. military is suffering from a growing list of self-inflicted wounds, with the most recent regarding poor enlisted housing conditions (barracks and related unmarried housing), which were discovered by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to be unfit for even…

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