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…

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,…

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,…

The 1984 movie The Last Starfighter focused on a lonely teenage boy, Alex, whose only real pleasure was found in playing a video game named “Starfighter.” Alex excelled at it, beating every level of challenge the game threw at him. What…

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…

Withdrawing support for Ukraine based on the belief that the war is akin to Vietnam is not supported by history. After the 1954 defeat of the French, a peace agreement was brokered in Vietnam, and free elections were to be…

In the next few months, the U.S. Senate could spend 689 hours confirming military appointees — one by one. That process began on Wednesday when the Senate confirmed three top-brass military promotions, including the promotion of Gen. Charles Q. Brown…

On Sunday afternoon, a crisis unfolded in the sky over South Carolina: A U.S. Marine Corps F-35 pilot was forced to eject from the plane because of a “malfunction.” Strangely, however, the plane didn’t crash, as you’d expect — instead,…

Joint Force Quarterly, the premier journal of National Defense University (NDU) Press, has entered wokeland. The latest issue of the Quarterly features an article by Magdalena Bogacz, assistant professor at the Global College of PME at Air University, that argues…

On Labor Day, Tokyo’s highest court ordered Okinawan leaders to approve land reclamation needed to move an American airstrip to a new site on the strategically located island. Despite Chinese expansion in the Pacific looming in the background, local Okinawan…