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Military Whistleblowers : Warnings from America’s Finest, is a 3-Part Series where David Cloft explores the Military Industrial Complex. Today, Part I: Smedley Butler: The Marine Who Exposed War as a Business
Beneath the gleaming brass and West Point swagger was a man whose loyalty had clear limitations, especially when it came to the very troops who had bled for him.
The Pentagon isn’t focused on warfighting anymore. It’s obsessed with DEI quotas and social-engineering experiments. “Representation” is now more important than readiness.
The U.S. Army has lost its edge — not because of the troops, but because of the brass. There are now more general officers on active duty than there are infantry companies in the field. Think about that
How and why have China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran not only survived but advanced their strategic priorities at the expense of ours?
As an ORSA math geek, I was the Army’s personal calculator monkey. My job? Crunch the ROI on our advertising campaigns. Translation: I figured out if dropping $62+ million a year on slapping Army logos onto NASCAR stock cars was actually convincing anyone to trade their Budweiser for a Beretta.
Apparently the brainstorm du jour is to rebrand the Department of Defense back to the Department of War. Cute. Retro chic. What’s next — reviving the draft with bell bottoms?
In Washington, few topics guarantee funding quite like military suicide prevention. Stand up in a committee hearing and say you want to “save lives,” and the check practically writes itself.
Iran is running out of water. This is a route to foment an insurrection against the mullahs.
Since the All-Volunteer Force started in 1973, the Army decided the best way to fill ranks was… marketing. Not rigorous recruiting, not showing the realities of military life
Why the New .277 Fury May Be the Greatest Logistical Disaster Since the MRE Omelet The U.S. Army is rolling out its first major service rifle redesign since 1965—yes, you read that right. The M16/M4 platform has been around longer than disco, and just like disco, it still works surprisingly well if you know how …
The U.S. Air Force has been strutting around as its own branch since 1947, puffing out its chest like it invented flight. Hate to break it to the Pentagon empire-builders, but the Air Force was born out of the Army Air Forces
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, I said to myself a couple of weeks ago. The media told me that Donald Trump was taking over Washington in an authoritarian manner. Finally, I thought, he would lock Hillary up.
Something stinketh on The Plain above the Hudson. It’s Cultural Marxist black mold. A lot of institutional drywall must be ripped out to find all the rot.
On June 22nd, 2025, the United States and Israel attacked multiple Iranian nuclear facilities. The American attack, Operation Midnight Hammer, targeted three sites using submarine launched cruise missiles and B2 delivered MOAPs.
Helicopter moms? Bulldozer moms? Please. Douglas MacArthur had the original stealth bomber mom. While most West Point cadets sweated through inspections and hazing with nothing but their wits, MacArthur had his mother, Mary “Pinky” Hardy, living full-time at the Thayer Hotel, overlooking the Academy grounds.
“R-Day” is the day that each new class reports to become cadets. Kids come from all 50 states and certain allied countries to begin the crucible of Beast Barracks. Looking back, it is not all that much of a crucible compared to life, but it is enough to be transformative to 18-year old kids who have not yet lived life, or to 21-year old prior service sergeants who only think they have lived life up to that point.
It’s 2025, and somehow the U.S. Army is still doing it: jamming steel rods down the muzzles of rifles and pistols in the name of “safety.”
Once upon a time, the Army understood two things every Soldier needed in the field: nicotine and fire. Cigarettes were standard in rations for decades—until 1975, when someone in a suit decided “health concerns” mattered more than morale.
When I was in the U.S. Army in the 1960s, one of the most persistent exhortations from my superiors was: “The only good communist is a dead communist.”