Are We Headed Toward a Second Mexican-American War? A Military Strategic Assessment

In 1846, the United States invaded Mexico. The war was controversial then, and remains deeply significant now—not just because it added vast territory to the U.S., but because it revealed core truths about how political ideology, nationalism, and instability can lead to major conflict.

Men of Iron: When Tank Crew Evaluators Rode the Beast

In an era before risk assessments, blast gauges, and traumatic brain injury protocols, Tank Crew Evaluators (TCEs) rode into live-fire gunnery on top of the turret—exposed and often holding on for dear life. It was a different time, a different Army. Some would say it was when tankers were men of iron riding machines of steel.