Of, By and For the People – Chapter 9: National Security
National Security: government, the People and their roles in defending a civilized society rooted in individual liberty from threat of destruction.
Military
Cleaning up Obama’s Worst Mistake
Italy recently elected a new prime minister. One of her tasks will be handing the aftermath of overthrowing the Libyan government, Obama’s Worst Mistake.
‘Apocalypse Now’ and The Green Beret as Saint and Sinner
I harbor little love or respect for Hollywood or it’s spawn, but I can still appreciate movies as an art form and how they often point to literary works, pieces of history and culture, that are worth remembering. Take “Apocalypse Now,” for example. Through that one film—lauded as one of cinema’s best, yet tiresome and …
Joe Biden, The Manchurian President
President Biden is not only compromised but exemplifies the ultimate Manchurian President.
The Handwringing is Increasingly Pointed About the US Military Decline
But Are There any Adults Working on Solutions???
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
Putin has nothing to be afraid of from our current president. And the worse may be yet to come.
The 2nd Battle of Guadalcanal; Now China is the Enemy
Activity by China in the Solomon Islands, looks like a repeat of Japanese efforts in World War Two. This is a real concern for the U.S and its allies.
Useful Idiots and Chinese Communist Propaganda
How Immigrant Chinese Scientists and American Useful Idiots Facilitate Chinese Communist Propaganda in the United States.
Rare-Earths; Reason For Our Long Stay in Afghanistan
The mastermind behind the 911 attacks was dead, avenging the horrific loss of 2,977 American lives lost on 911. That would be the cue for the US to pull up tent pegs in Afghanistan. Or was it? $3 Trillion? Wait? When did we know about these rare-earths?
After Roe Was Reversed
When SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade, that did not end abortion; it merely returned the issue to the states where it was before Roe in 1973.
Which is More Moral, War or Mind Control Slavery?
Scientists are stereotypically caricatured as wild-hair madmen. They are driven to discover solutions, to answer questions, to potentially push an idea beyond moral boundaries. Frankenstein’s monster is a bad idea.
Afghanistan: Price of Surrender
The Price of Surrender
In Afghanistan One Year Later – A world has changed and the United States is diminished as an international power.
Communist Chinese Political War Campaigns Exploit Social Media
The CCP is adapting its political warfare methods to exploit social media
Thoughts From The Past, by Citizen Writer: Joe Heaton
When I was a Plebe (freshman), I was getting onto a Greyhound bus. Before I got to the top of the steps, someone identified me as in the military. “Thank you for you service.” Wait? What? I have given no service. They had simultaneously identified me as affiliated with the military, and over-judged my contribution. …
Gen. Mark Milley’s Wildly Arrogant Resignation Letter to Trump Is Revealed
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley was appointed by former President Donald Trump in 2019 and remains in office under President Joe Biden. In a recently published excerpt from her forthcoming book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” New Yorker writer Susan Glasser recounts Milley’s service during the Trump …
Communist China’s 4-7 August 2022 Exercise Off Taiwan; Chinese Saber Rattling and Intimidation by Captain Carl O. Schuster, US Navy Retired
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) just conducted a multi-day coordinated “exercise” in six locations that effectively surrounded Taiwan, which Beijing claimed was in response to US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s brief visit to Taipei on 2 August.
Inflation Reduction Act, Manchin and Sinema. Hope I’m wrong. I’m not!
I keep hearing about a certain amount of funding in this “Inflation Fighting” bill, an amount that increases the IRS budget to the tune of 12 times its existing annual budget. What is very interesting about the bill is it funds what amounts to a military arm of the IRS. Thousands of IRS agents, if …
Thomas Paine
“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, …
WARNING: China Poised to Invade Taiwan’s Offshore Islands
Quemoy and Matsu, officially known as the Kinmen and Lienchiang Counties respectively, are groups of islands located directly off the coast of mainland Communist China, but are under the administration of the Republic of China, Taiwan. In the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the People’s Republic of China shelled …
War Is Peace And Other Democrat Sayings
No matter how much they spun, Humpty Dumpty’s men couldn’t Build Back Brandon’s Broken economy again. We’re in a recession.