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David T. Cloft

David T. Cloft is a competitive smallbore and long range rifle shooter from the United States, who has won seven National Championships and has set 11 US National Records. In 1999 he became the first American to be Knighted by the Princess of Buedingen, Germany after winning their annual Schutzenfest. He formerly served as a United States Army officer and retired at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

The Cost of Betrayal: When a Nation Turns on Its Volunteers

May 31, 2025 by David T. Cloft

The trust between a nation and those who swear to defend it was fractured when the U.S. military separated 8,200 service members for refusing to comply with COVID-19 mandates

Categories Military, U.S. News/Policy Tags Mask Mandates, Military Readiness, vaccine mandates Leave a comment

The Temptation of Artificial Intelligence: Re-Learning from the Lessons of Eden

May 30, 2025 by David T. Cloft

In the timeless tale of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the pursuit of knowledge led to dire consequences. Driven by the desire to understand good and evil, they reached for the forbidden fruit.

Categories Science & Tech, Society, U.S. News/Policy Tags A.I., Artificial Intelligence 4 Comments

Healing Waters: How Fly Fishing Restores the Wounds of War

May 30, 2025 by David T. Cloft

For over 100 years, fly fishing has served not only as a sport but as a quiet, powerful form of therapy for veterans returning from war.

Categories Health, Inspiration, Medicine, Military Tags Fly Fishing, Wounded Warriors 1 Comment

The Ideological Battleground of Wokeism, Transhumanism, and Putin’s War Against the West

May 29, 2025 by David T. Cloft

Putin’s positioning of Russia as a counterforce to Western liberal ideologies, as espoused by Dugin, reflects a broader geopolitical narrative of ideological competition and conflict.

Categories Foreign News/Policy, Warfare Tags Putin, Russia Leave a comment

Alexander the Great: The Conqueror Who Revolutionized Warfare

May 29, 2025 by David T. Cloft

Alexander the Great, born in 356 BC in Macedon, was one of the most successful military commanders in history.

Categories History, Warfare Tags Alexander the Great, Warfare 2 Comments

The Sin of Nihilism: A Call to Reverse Our Nation’s Decline

May 28, 2025 by David T. Cloft

Fellow Americans, we stand at the precipice of moral and spiritual decay, a fate worse than any foreign tyrant or invading army.

Categories Culture, Family, Society Tags Culture, Societal Rot, Society 2 Comments

There Has to Be a Better Way: Rethinking Oil Changes in America

May 27, 2025 by David T. Cloft

For decades, Americans have been told to change their oil every 3,000 to 5,000 miles. It’s been drilled into us by quick-lube shops, service stations, and manufacturers.

Categories Business And Money, Energy, Lifestyle Tags Motor Oil, Oil Changes 2 Comments

The Greatest Generation: Honoring the Unimaginable Sacrifices of Our Ancestors

May 26, 2025 by David T. Cloft

In a world where convenience and comfort are often just a tap away, it’s easy to forget the unimaginable hardships that shaped the lives of our ancestors. They lived through times when sacrifice wasn’t optional—it was expected.

Categories Americana, patriotism Tags Memorial Day 2 Comments

No Bravery: A Song Born from the Ashes of Kosovo

May 25, 2025 by David T. Cloft

In 1999, while most of the world moved on from the headlines about the Balkans, soldiers and peacekeepers stepped into a devastated land where the horrors of ethnic cleansing still hung in the air like smoke.

Categories Holidays, Military, patriotism Tags Soldier Sacrifice 1 Comment

The Shadow of Evil: Humanity’s Descent During World War II

May 24, 2025 by David T. Cloft

Evil, in its most harrowing form, emerges not as an external force but as a seed within humanity, capable of growing under the right conditions.

Categories Culture, History, Society Tags evil Leave a comment

Thin Ice: How Humanity’s Fallen Nature Surfaces When the Systems Fail

May 24, 2025 by David T. Cloft

It doesn’t take much for civilization’s glossy veneer to crack. We like to think of ourselves as evolved, enlightened beings, but beneath the surface lies the same brutish, selfish creature we’ve been since Adam and Eve reached for the forbidden fruit.

Categories Culture, Society Tags civilization, Morals 1 Comment

Dead Karl Still Has the Floor: Clausewitz and the Curse of the Field Grade Philosopher

May 23, 2025 by David T. Cloft

You can’t swing a laminated mission statement at CGSC without hitting a Clausewitz quote. And for good reason: the guy nailed it centuries ago. War isn’t just blowing stuff up—it’s blowing stuff up on purpose

Categories Politics, Warfare Tags Clausewitz, Politics of War 2 Comments

From Panmunjom to Propaganda: How the Korean War Launched 75 Years of Psychological Warfare

May 22, 2025 by David T. Cloft

When the Korean War ended in 1953, the world saw more than a ceasefire. It witnessed the opening shot in a new kind of war—one not fought with bullets and bombs, but with ideas, fear, confusion, and persuasion.

Categories History, Medicine, Politics, Warfare Tags Psychological Operations 4 Comments

HAARP: The Strangest Science Experiment in the Sky

May 21, 2025 by David T. Cloft

Hidden away in the remote wilderness of Gakona, Alaska, sits one of the most controversial research facilities in the world: the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, better known as HAARP.

Categories Education, Science, Science & Tech Tags HAARP, research, Science Leave a comment

Oops, Your ‘Freedom’ Tattoo Has a History You Missed

May 20, 2025 by David T. Cloft

In our postmodern culture, where individuality and self-expression reign supreme, history has become a neglected casualty. Take, for instance, the skyrocketing popularity of tattoos and piercings.

Categories Humor, Snark Tags Snark 4 Comments

The Geometry of Chaos: Why Complexity in War is a Deadly Gamble

May 19, 2025 by David T. Cloft

War has always been defined by paradox: it is at once simple and impossibly hard. The fundamentals—move, shoot, communicate, sustain—are straightforward on paper.

Categories Defense, Military, Warfare Tags Chaos Theory, Warfare Leave a comment

Sacred Geometry: Unlocking God’s Universe Through Numbers and Divine Design

May 18, 2025 by David T. Cloft

The universe is not random but encoded with sacred geometry and mathematical laws that reflect the very nature of God.

Categories Bible, God, Science Tags God's Design, Mathematics 1 Comment

Bugpaste Rebellion: The Great Hot Sauce Uprising of 2050

May 17, 2025 by David T. Cloft

In the year 2050, in the glorious gray sprawl of the United Socialist States of America, meat was illegal, cows were extinct (except for the one in the Smithsonian), and the only thing anyone had ever eaten was Bugpaste™

Categories Government, Humor, Satire, Snark Tags Satire, Soylent Green Leave a comment

I Demand Glyphosate for Rocks: A Screed for the Ages

May 16, 2025 by David T. Cloft

Rocks. In. My. Garden. Those demon-possessed geological freeloaders are multiplying faster than a college feminist studies major’s pronouns.

Categories Humor, Satire, Snark Tags Satire, Snark 1 Comment

The Road to Kyiv: NATO, Kosovo, and the Long Shadow of a Broken Promise, Part 3

May 16, 2025 by David T. Cloft

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.”

~Carl von Clausewitz

Categories Defense, Foreign News/Policy, History, Military, Politics, U.S. News/Policy, Warfare Tags NATO, Peacekeeping, Ukraine 1 Comment
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