Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
By John R. “Buck” Surdu This week ESPN reported that Army football player Andre Carter II was poised to be the first Army football player to be drafted in the NFL higher the seventh round in over fifty years. This sparked debate on some of the social media sites for Academy graduates. “In December, Congress passed …
Elections and war; Whose rules does a successful military use to win battles? Is it the enemy’s rules? I’m asking because some seem to think, in politics, that we should play by the opponent’s rules. Someone, somewhere else, came up with the idea that we should begin to march as our opponents …
If it turns out that President Joe Biden actually ordered an F-22 Raptor to shoot down a hobby club’s weather balloon with a $400,000 sidewinder missile, he will deserve all the ridicule he gets. The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade is a small group of balloon enthusiasts “aged 11-years-old and up, kids, their parents and friends” …
Is it possible that beings created a warp drive & sent a craft thousands of lightyears from their home, but couldn’t avoid destruction once they arrived?
Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXXV; Why Balloons Appear. On the day that he was born our opponents got together and decided to create a gaffe come true. Last week, in Part LXXIV, a trial balloon was launched in tribute to songwriter singer/ songwriter Jimmy Webb, in light of current events precipitated by what the …
Ukraine and Russia have violated the ban on chemical weapons use in war, but has Ukraine gone a step further? Both Ukraine and Russia signed and ratified the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention. Article I (5) of the Convention states: “Each State Party undertakes not to use riot control agents as a method of warfare.” Article …
A war with China; There is no mistaking that China is aggressive. They are spoiling for a fight, feeling their oats, so to speak. They, like so many communist countries, are very much like your typical organized crime syndicate, not out to defend their people, but closer to defending their hold on their territory and …
Green Lasers Fired at Hawaii by a Chinese Satellite Occurred in Same Area as Unusual Chinese Real Estate Activity Citing a Zerohedge report, The Gateway Pundit noted that the Chinese altimeter satellite ICESAT-2/43613, fired green laser bursts over Maunakea, Hawaii on January 28, 2023. That Chinese military operation occurred simultaneously with the arrival of a Chinese spy balloon, …
Reports from China indicate that a suspected “unidentified flying object” has been observed in the airspace close to Shandong Province.
By John R. “Buck” Surdu I have often said that as a company commander I kicked people out of the Army who are better people and better citizens than more than half the people I meet every day in civilian life. I have seen commanders relieved for cause for a variety of purposes. Yet stories …
Disincentivizing Military Service: Undoing more than Two Decades of Public Support for the Military Without Even Trying, Stink, Stank, Stunk (Stinking)
Military recruiting is like any other potential ramification progression associated with this administration: Could implode, is imploding, imploded.
Floating a Trial Balloon; America is Sending Our Adversaries Another Bad Message, Rest Assured, They Heard It
The Deep, Deep State of Intelligence. Lede: I only had one Intelligence job in the Cold War Army. 90 days as a Brigade S-2 in the Fulda Gap got me read on monthly to the Division’s “Black Book” latest on terrorists and the Soviets. It was an eye-opener on what our people knew. As a DoD …
“In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.” –Yoda Defense One just printed an admission by the Navy Secretary which warns if the defense industry can’t boost production, arming both Ukraine and the US may become “challenging.” Gosh, who would have ever thought that? Could it be OSD, the JCS, and the individual …
Anthony’s Pizza; A retired Army Colonel’s observations from the AAFES Food Court. First if you know what an AAFES Food Court is, then you will appreciate this (Army Air Force Exchange System aka PX/BX) I live in DuPont, WA, located right across I-5 from JBLM (Joint Base Lewis McChord or for the Army types Ft …
I will admit it: I have been reluctant to comment on the purported Chinese spy balloon story, because it seemed like so much of a set-up. Really? A nation with the capacity to launch its own spy satellites, needing to send an easily-shot-down spy balloon over Montana? But, with even the Grey Lady treating it …
It was never a good idea for Chinese-owned Fufeng USA to build a corn mill in North Dakota, especially given its proximity to Grand Forks Air Force Base. Nevertheless, the city’s mayor, Brandon Bochenski, and the state’s governor, Doug Burgum, both Republicans and delighted by the prospect of economic opportunity, forged ahead with the plans. …
Chemical weapons are called the poor man’s atom bomb. The drone is becoming the poor man’s carrier. A three-year-old meme on Facebook discussing the death of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani shows how force projection has changed in the last few decades: Sucks to be him. And I don’t question there were a few more people in the loop …
It has been 11 months since Russia invaded Ukraine; When it became clear that Putin was contemplating an invasion of the Ukraine, Biden misplayed all of his cards. Instead of calling Putin’s bluff and sending as much military assistance to Ukraine as quickly as possible, Biden basically invited the Russian dictator to take the northeast portion …