James Atticus Bowden

James Atticus Bowden is a co-founder of the Virginia First Foundation. He is a retired U.S. Army Officer and Defense Consultant. His home of record upon entering the United States Military Academy was Arlington, Virginia. He graduated in 1972. Bowden served as an airborne, ranger infantry officer in 5 Divisions. He earned graduate degrees from the JFK School of Government at Harvard University and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. He taught as an Assistant Professor at USMA and Adjunct Faculty at the College of William and Mary.

This is a 40 Year Fight…or More

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The Great U.S. Culture War became an open Kultur Kampf in 1962. It took 60 years for one side, called “Commies” for short, to reach the top of institutions which define American Civilization by controlling our culture. It’ll take at least 40 years to pull the Commies down from the top and pull them up branch and root to win America back.

The Biden Administration Easily Demonstrates How to Destroy an Economy

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The easy answer on how to destroy the U.S. economy is to do what Biden and the Democrats are doing now. A longer answer is to flagrantly violate the laws of economics – even those taught at the most liberal universities. The most comprehensive way to destroy an economy is, simply, to act counter to commonsense and every historical precedent for all of recorded history.

A Good Hate

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The two greatest Commandments for Christians are to love God with all your heart, mind, strength and soul and love your neighbor like you love yourself. The only verb is love. Love3. Also, the Holy Bible lists things that the Lord God hates. So, it can be good to hate the right things. In America, there’s much to hate about the Left.

USMA Class of 1972: My Looking Back and Ahead 50 years. (Part 3 of 3)

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My personal perspective on West Point, obviously, is mine alone.  It’s aged over 50 years since graduation and informed by 65 years of reading history as well as over 2 decades working as an Army “Futurist.”  I believe West Point should focus on creating the cadre of the “military priesthood” of the U.S. Army.  I know such a shift would get mixed results, but 50 years from now Americans would know the Long Gray Line is about winning America’s wars above all else.

Honoring Our Confederate Dead (2022)

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More Americans died fighting one another in “The Recent Unpleasantness (1861-1865)” than all of our other wars put together. Every year honoring the Confederate half of that most terrible war has its unique highlights and nuances. This year the Army is culturally cleansing the names of its forts. So, the unspoken post-war compromise – where Southerners could honor their soldiers’ valor if they ignored the abuses of Federal aggression and stayed silent about Yankee war crimes – is over.

Happy Mother’s Day! How Was Your Abortion?

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Abortion and Mother’s Day don’t go well in a single sentence. It’s insulting, and revolting, to even see the word ‘abortion’ on Mother’s Day. Yet, many American women who are mothers and some who will never be, are feeling a lot of emotion about abortion. This Mother’s Day 2022 has something to celebrate about the legality and restrictions on abortion – it’s all probably going back to the states.

Dissing the Disinformation Governance Board

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The Soviets worked disinformation – “Desinformatsiya” – as a weapon of war. The Biden Administration will mis-label dissent, criticism, as well as opposing facts and opinions “disinformation.” They aren’t fighting disinformation. They’re using the Department of Homeland Defense to portray domestic opposition as terrorism. It’ll be a good and fun fight to mock everything the Disinformation Governance Board does.