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Blue Wednesday for communists Iran is losing. Comey is losing. And America is having a great week.

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Things are not going as planned for the communists.

Jenni tweeted, “In case anyone isn’t aware, Trump is demanding Zambia to hand over its mineral rights by end of day tomorrow or the U.S. gov’t will cut off the country’s access to the AIDS medications that are literally keeping its citizens alive.’

The Life of an Army Staff Officer in Operations Research & Analysis: A Journey from Captain to Lieutenant Colonel

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The life of an Army staff officer is often defined by long hours, endless PowerPoint slides, and the constant demand for data-driven decisions. For those in Functional Area 49 (Operations Research & Systems Analysis, or ORSA), this reality is amplified. We were expected to be the Army’s decision scientists, using data and analytical rigor to guide strategy, resource allocation, and operational planning. However, somewhere along the way—from 1997 to 2017—the Army lost its way, shifting from genuine analysis-driven decision-making to an environment where analysis became a justification tool for pre-determined conclusions.

MV-75 “Cheyenne II”: Army Aviation’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft

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At its core, the MV-75 is a tiltrotor aircraft. It lifts vertically like a helicopter, then rotates its rotors forward and flies like a fixed-wing aircraft. That combination changes everything. Instead of cruising at traditional helicopter speeds, it moves at roughly 280 knots, covering distances that would have required multiple legs and refueling stops in the past. With a combat range pushing beyond 500 nautical miles, it allows commanders to launch from safer distances and still arrive with speed and precision.

Khe Sanh: The Siege We Won—and the Narrative We Lost

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There’s a reason Khe Sanh still gets brought up in war colleges, smoky VFW halls, and late-night strategy debates. It wasn’t just a battle. It was a live-fire experiment in something we didn’t have a name for yet—what we now call fifth-generation warfare. Not bullets versus bullets. Not even armies versus armies. It was narrative versus reality. And narrative won.

The Future of Armored Warfare in the Drone Era; Adapting to a Battlefield That Now Sees Everything

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The romantic image of armored columns rolling forward under cover of smoke and artillery has been replaced by something far less cinematic: vehicles hiding, dispersing, and moving like hunted animals under constant aerial surveillance. Cheap drones—$500 quadcopters and $20,000 FPV kamikazes—are hunting million-dollar platforms with ruthless efficiency. The lesson is not subtle. If you can be seen, you can be targeted. If you can be targeted, you can be killed.

The Cognitive Coup de Main of America

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I write these articles to sound the warning to our national security leaders. We are in the midst of a major war, taking place both domestically and globally. It is a Cognitive War for which our leaders remain unaware, unprepared, and unarmed. I hope you will read and pass this onto others, members of Congress, or members of our national security apparatus and this Administration. My warning remains unanswered!

Leave No One Behind

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The world watched fascinated as America recovered two pilots isolated behind enemy lines in Iran. Television screens were filled with pundits or veterans discussing everything from SERE* school to the impact of the successful recovery of both pilots on ceasefire negotiations. I was one of those pundits who helped fill the airwaves, conducting over 20 interviews across multiple networks, and being the first guest to talk about the recovery on Fox News, within minutes of the Pentagon confirming it.

Night Witches and the Art of Terror: How Improvised Bombers Haunted the Wehrmacht After Dark

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In 1941, the Soviet Union was being dismantled at industrial speed. Entire armies vanished. Cities fell. Aircraft factories were evacuated east while German armor drove forward. There was no time for elegance. The Red Army needed pilots, aircraft, and pressure on the enemy—immediately. So they did something profoundly unromantic and brutally practical: they took civilians who could fly and turned them into combat airmen.

Trusted There. Restricted Here; Restoring Trust and Rights

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If we trust a service member overseas with a loaded rifle, real rules of engagement, and life-and-death decisions in a combat zone, it makes no sense to suddenly treat that same disciplined professional like a liability the moment they step onto a stateside installation; this policy correction acknowledges a simple truth long overdue—responsibility doesn’t evaporate at the gate. The men and women we entrust to defend the nation are trained, vetted, and held to standards far above the civilian baseline, and if we truly believe in that system, then extending reasonable trust for personal defense at home isn’t radical, it’s consistent. And if someone genuinely cannot be trusted with a firearm under controlled conditions on base, then the harder question isn’t about policy—it’s about why they’re in uniform in the first place.

Hormuz Isn’t Guadalcanal: Iran Is Playing Chess While We’re Still Planning Amphibious Landings

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Somewhere in the Pentagon filing cabinets sits a 2017 document that reads less like doctrine and more like a warning label we ignored. The Joint Concept for Access and Maneuver in the Global Commons (JAM-GC) laid it out plainly: the United States wins wars because we can show up anywhere on earth, kick in the door, and maneuver freely across air, sea, space, and cyber. That’s our superpower. Not just firepower—access. And the bad guys figured that out.

A rescue worth $390 trillion: The world just saw American might and determination. Tyranny should tremble.

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There are two types of people in the world this morning—those who are elated that the American military rescued the pilot and the weapons system officer of a downed F-15E deep in Iran, and then there are those who are unhappy. Whatever you may call the second group critics or communists, liars or losers, or dead-enders or Democrats, their rooting for Iran to prevail in this conflict is tedious and TDS.