Warped Speed: A Novella (Chapter 3)
In, “Warped Speed,” retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Dave Cloft brings us a 12 part novella about how he sees one possible future of modern warfare. Today, Chapter 3: “The Signal”
Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
In, “Warped Speed,” retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Dave Cloft brings us a 12 part novella about how he sees one possible future of modern warfare. Today, Chapter 3: “The Signal”
In, “Warped Speed,” retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Dave Cloft brings us a 12 part novella about how he sees one possible future of modern warfare. Today, Chapter 2: “The Unseen War”
In, “Warped Speed,” retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Dave Cloft brings us a 12 part novella about how he sees one possible future of modern warfare. Today, Chapter 1: Orders
Hillman, MI — The skies above Michigan this week resembled the inside of a Waffle House kitchen at 2 a.m., thanks to yet another aromatic delivery of Canadian wildfire smoke, generously exported from our friendly neighbors to the north.
There was a time when being young meant making mistakes, learning from them, and moving on. But in the age of permanent digital footprints, youthful ignorance doesn’t fade—it follows you.
While we may no longer enjoy the luxury of true privacy in the digital age, young people can still take proactive steps to reduce their long-term exposure and reclaim some control over their online lives.
Today’s young people are growing up in a world where the mistakes of adolescence are not only remembered but digitally archived, searchable, and weaponizable.
She never fired a shot at Camp Perry, but her fingerprints are on a thousand targets. She never wore a medal, but she helped hang hundreds around the necks of others. In every generation of American rifle shooting, there are traces of Mary Kay Wigger—the quiet force who kept the team on time, in line, and always believing they could win.
In 1999, I had the extraordinary honor of becoming the first American ever to win the title of Pfingstritter (Pentecost Knight) in the historic Büdinger Schützengesellschaft—a marksmanship society with roots dating back over 670 years.
Let’s take a moment to examine the other side of individual internet transparency. What if anonymity isn’t about hiding, but about protecting?
Today, the word “militia” triggers suspicion. Homeland Security advisories, media narratives, and public discourse often treat militias as synonymous with extremism or domestic terrorism. This shift didn’t happen by accident.
In case you missed it while watching the officer corps implode under the weight of PowerPoint slides and PME requirements, the U.S. Army has decided it needs less Fort Benning and more Silicon Valley.
Ah, the good old days when privacy was a thing, and our phones were just for making calls and playing pranks on old people… “Hello Ma’am, is your refrigerator running?”
Fort Leavenworth and the Army’s Troika Team just dropped their long-awaited mixtape: “How Russia Fights”—a gritty compendium of battlefield improvisation, Soviet nostalgia, and drone-age brute force, wrapped in the tattered remains of a doctrine last updated when the KGB still had a dress code.
Let’s get this out of the way: vaccines save lives. They’re one of the greatest medical achievements in human history. But what we’ve got now in the U.S. isn’t some noble public health crusade—it’s a bloated, rigged circus run by pharmaceutical overlords and greased with taxpayer dollars.
For decades, the Critchfield 6400 has stood as the ultimate test of precision, endurance, and marksmanship in U.S. smallbore prone shooting. First fired in 1966 at Camp Perry, this grueling format made national champions out of legends—and left only a select few with a place in smallbore history.
In a world where headlines dominate and theology often takes a backseat to cultural noise, it is rare to find voices committed to thoughtful, Scripturally grounded exploration of biblical prophecy. Martin B. Pigott III is one such voice
The first day of the 2025 CMP Smallbore, Prone, Nationals felt less like a rifle match and more like we’d stumbled through a time portal.
In the age of 5th Generation Warfare (5GW), the battlefield has shifted from terrain to perception, from land to the human mind. If you want to win hearts and minds today, you don’t need tanks—you need TikTok and Facebook.
The caltrop is a deceptively simple but highly effective weapon that has remained relevant for over 2,500 years. First recorded in 5th century BC Greece and Persia, caltrops were designed to stop cavalry charges by injuring the hooves of horses.