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In 1960 the USS George Washington SSBN 595 put to sea on its first deterrent patrol. For 65-years the deterrent to anyone launching nuclear weapons against the United States, and allies had been effective.
If you hate your political opponents so much that you bring in foreigners to stay in power, you’ve set the stage for a civil war. A civil war unbound by the Geneva Convention
Concrete mushrooms were everywhere.
They sat in fields, along roads, on hillsides, near villages, even edging farmland—small, dome-shaped bunkers of reinforced concrete, half-buried and impossible to ignore. At first, they looked defensive. After a while, they felt like something else entirely: fear made permanent.
History has a sense of humor, and it’s rarely kind. As the United States barrels headlong into a Fourth Turning crisis—complete with generational rage, institutional distrust, ritualized protest, economic anxiety, and ideological self-harm—China isn’t protesting anything. It’s watching. Quietly. Patiently. With a spreadsheet.
There’s a comforting little bedtime story we tell ourselves about Antarctica. Nobody owns it. Nobody fights over it. Scientists in parkas share data and hot cocoa while penguins waddle around like tiny tuxedo diplomats. It’s the one place on Earth where humanity supposedly agreed to stop acting like humanity.
There’s a certain kind of battlefield respect that doesn’t need a movie trailer, a podcast, or a camouflage beard oil sponsor. It’s quiet. It’s ancient. It’s earned. And it belongs to the rifle marksman—the one who can hit what needs to be hit, when it needs to be hit, without turning the entire valley into a fireworks show.
Reagan, Obama and Trump all faced crisis. Leadership is the difference.
“Defense” sounds noble. It sounds like you’re protecting your kids. It sounds like you’re holding the line. It sounds like Mom, apple pie, and a golden retriever that would never bite anybody unless it absolutely had to.
The USA has been defending Greenland longer than Denmark because on August 9, 1940, the Danes fought the Germans valiantly for 6 hours but threw in the towel because Denmark did not want to be annihilated.
Our President who never seems to sleep, has come up with another “out of the box” idea. He wants our War Department to start getting its money’s worth from the defense industrial complex. What a novel idea.
Whether or not President Trump is able to acquire Greenland, there is the possibility of a conflict between China-Russia on one side, and the U.S. on the other, in order to control scarce resources. Today, Dave Cloft examines what that might look like from the eyes of a Winter Warfare Legend.
The Trump administration did what it needed to do, collecting the Venezuelan dictator in the early hours of a Saturday morn, and bringing him back to the United States, starting the process for a long-awaited regime change in Venezuela at last.
In the 1950’s, long before Arctic warfare became trendy again now in 2026 —before the think tanks rediscovered parkas and PowerPoint slides—the United States quietly built an entire nuclear city under the ice in Greenland. Not a base. Not a bunker. A city. With hallways, living quarters, electricity, plumbing, a chapel, and—because this is America—a big nuclear reactor.
Let’s stop pretending this is a seminar where everyone raises their hand and waits to be called on. The United States is the global hegemon. That’s not bravado; it’s the rebuilt operating system. When America “consults,” it’s being polite. When America decides, the rest of the world updates its talking points.
Once each year The State of the Union Address finds most of our military and elected leaders, including the president, all gathered together.
Syria is not a declared war. There is no Syria-specific Authorization for Use of Military Force. There is no victory condition, no end state, no honest explanation that survives five follow-up questions.
Arctic warfare has always been the great equalizer. It humbles superpowers, burns through armies, and rewards only the few who understand that in the North, the environment is the real four-star general.
The Iron Major was never meant to be cool. He wasn’t a door kicker, a tank commander, or a helicopter pilot. He was something more tragic—a Jedi Knight of staffing, a warrior-monk assigned to pour black coffee into his bloodstream and rearrange briefing charts until the colonel approved the shade of blue.
Scripture teaches something modern diplomacy avoids: nations are not equal in strength, discipline, or character. Some restrain evil; others unleash it.
The ongoing coup conspiracy against President Trump has just taken an even darker turn: Five former military and one former CIA analyst Democrat Members of Congress just engaged in a seditious conspiracy against the United States, the duly elected President, and all active-duty members of our armed forces.