Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Is leadership a process? Processes have inputs and actions/activities that produce outputs. In virtue-based leadership, the inputs are Virtue, Competency, and Candor. The outputs are Integrity, Truth, and Trust.
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
Family, is different than military service, no matter how honorable. A nation may thank you for your service, but it won’t sit beside your hospital bed when you’re broken.
The Balkans conflict in the 1990s, particularly the wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Kosovo, saw the U.S. and NATO engaged in a prolonged and often overlooked peacekeeping mission.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week ordered a broad restructuring of the U.S. Army that will trim the number of generals, merge headquarters commands and prioritize drone swarms needed to counter China’s growing military.
In an age when Europe teetered on the edge of collapse after the fall of the Roman Empire, one man stood between the continent and a future under Islamic rule. That man was Charles Martel
It’s another day ending in a “Y”, so another military commander has been relieved of duty. Today’s example of TDS fueled corruption of military standards is provided by Colonel Sheyla Baez Ramirez, the Garrison Commander at Fort McCoy WI. She apparently thought it would be cute to disrespect her civilian leadership, by omitting their photographs on the chain of command board.
In the long march of human history, soldiers have sworn loyalty to emperors, warlords, kings, and dictators. But in 1787, America broke with that tradition.
Officers cannot pick and choose the superiors they follow. Either execute to the best of your ability or get out.
I’ll never forget the first real question my squad leader threw at me. “Which squad’s the best in this unit, Marshall?” SSG Arroyo barked.
How far would Globalists go to force the United States back into the Globalist fold?
War is hell, but post-war peacekeeping? Now that’s a business opportunity. As Ukraine inches toward an eventual ceasefire, one thing is crystal clear: the U.S. and NATO will be writing blank checks to maintain “stability” for years—maybe even decades.
As the war in Ukraine continues, speculation grows about what a post-war security landscape might look like, particularly if a ceasefire is reached. One of the most likely scenarios involves a NATO-led peacekeeping mission
Liberals keep talking themselves into a lather over imaginary threats to America. The latest lather was summed up best in the New Republic headline, “Trump Plans $92 Million Military Parade—Honoring Himself.
Poets and propagandists have long clung to the ancient Latin phrase: “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”—“It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country.” But by the time the industrial slaughterhouses of World War I had chewed through millions of lives, that “old lie,” as poet Wilfred Owen called it, rang hollow.
In an increasingly volatile world, the question isn’t just “Should the United States go to war?” but “When is war justified in service of our vital national interests?”
The overriding strategic goal of the Chinese Communist Party (and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in particular) is “to restore China to a position of glory and influence commensurate with its ancestral heritage.”
Last week, The Atlantic published an explosive report claiming that its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was invited to a “Principals Committee (PC) Small Group” discussion on Signal, where Cabinet officials discussed plans to strike the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Sensitive details—including the iconic who, what, where, when, and how of military operations—were publicly disclosed.
At West Point, the motto is clear: Duty, Honor, Country. These are not just words; they represent a code of conduct, a commitment to truth, and a foundation for leadership.
The recent disclosure of a Signal thread by high level officials shows sloppiness, but not unauthorized disclosure of classified information.