Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
David T. Cloft 
History, they say, is written by the victors—and edited by their public-school textbook committees. So let’s talk about the War of Northern Aggression (as my Southern friends call it) or, as the winners prefer, the “Civil War.” Either way, it’s when Uncle Sam went from lean constitutional minimalist to big-boned bureaucratic overlord.
As a West Point graduate, I’ve seen plenty of books take shots at the Academy. West Point: America’s Power Fraternity (1973) by K. Bruce Galloway and Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr. might be the loudest, crankiest one of the bunch.
I entered the Army in July of 1993, before President Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” experiment. Back then, the military was still primarily about blowing holes in things, breaking enemy armies, and defending the Republic. Then slowly, like a frog in a pot, the Pentagon began feeding the social science laboratory every “good idea” — except the good ideas about how to win wars.
If Paul were alive in our time, he would not remain silent—he would write to the churches in America, urging them back to faithfulness in Christ and away from the snares of our culture.
You’d think that the world’s most powerful military, with a budget larger than the GDP of some countries, could manage something as simple as a car pool. But no — welcome to the Department of Defense, where each branch guards its motor pool like it’s the nuclear launch codes.
Picture this: the world’s largest office building, full of America’s best and brightest, all dressed alike (but slightly different camouflage patterns) and all supposedly fighting the same enemy. Except the enemy wasn’t foreign. It was our brother
Cue the violins, America: it’s “government shutdown season” again. Right on schedule, like pumpkin spice lattes or bad holiday commercials, the headlines scream that federal workers will be “sent home without pay” and that the Republic teeters on the brink of collapse.
In recent remarks, the idea of using American cities as “training grounds” for active-duty military forces was floated. While I firmly back the President’s resolve to secure this nation, we must also be clear-eyed: there are limits that every officer—whether O-1 or O-10—must know. Crossing them is not just a political issue, but a constitutional one.
This week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth did something extraordinary: he swung a wrecking ball into the bloated bureaucracy and reminded 800 generals that their job is not to manage feelings — it’s to win wars.
Leave it to bored NCOs in Iraq — a handful of clever sergeants with too much time and just enough sarcasm managed to send the entire U.S. Army chasing its own tail with two little words: Warrior Companion.
While Uncle Sam was busy hunting down AK-wielding Toyota pickup convoys, Beijing was thinking long game. China didn’t care about al-Qaeda or ISIS. They cared about something bigger: power, influence, and global dominance.
We love to brag that the Constitution keeps us free from a national religion. But America does have a religion. And many in this country practice it. It’s not Christianity, Judaism, Islam, or Buddhism. It’s Satanism.
The Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) billed itself as a “voice for progress.” In reality, it became something far more dangerous: the longest-running social science experiment on the backs of America’s fighting men and women.
Military Whistleblowers : Warnings from America’s Finest, is a 3-Part Series where David Cloft explores the Military Industrial Complex. Today, Part III, Anthony Zinni and Wesley Clark: Generals Who Warned of Empire
Military Whistleblowers : Warnings from America’s Finest, is a 3-Part Series where David Cloft explores the Military Industrial Complex. Today, Part
Military Whistleblowers : Warnings from America’s Finest, is a 3-Part Series where David Cloft explores the Military Industrial Complex. Today, Part I: Smedley Butler: The Marine Who Exposed War as a Business
Beneath the gleaming brass and West Point swagger was a man whose loyalty had clear limitations, especially when it came to the very troops who had bled for him.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere in today’s headlines, often surrounded by both excitement and fear. Some imagine it as a revolution that will upend everything; others fear it as a runaway machine that will replace us.
Forget iPads, TikTok, and whatever overpriced “educational STEM toy” parents are guilt-tripped into buying today. For three generations of American kids, nothing screamed freedom, danger, and backyard glory like the Daisy Red Ryder BB gun.
For decades, we’ve been told that masculinity is a problem to be solved, a threat to be managed, or a relic of the past to be discarded. But when you step back and look at the research—it paints a different picture.