Shattering the Old Lie: General Patton’s War Wisdom and the True Duty of a Warrior

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.

Erwin Rommel: The Desert Fox, His Defeat by Patton, and His Tragic End

Few generals in history have commanded both the admiration of their enemies and the fear of their superiors quite like Erwin Rommel, the legendary “Desert Fox” of World War II. A master of mobile warfare, Rommel became Germany’s most celebrated general for his lightning-fast tactics in North Africa, where he routinely outmaneuvered larger Allied forces. …

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Can One of the Chest-Thumping Neocons Tell Me How They Intend to Actually Win the Wars They Are Pushing?

Elwood P Dowd is one of the liberal commenters on my good friend William Teach’s The Pirate’s Cove. The distinguished Mr Dowd is a Democrat and true hater of President Trump, and every so often, he gets me rolling in my response. He wrote: If Trump abandons Ukraine to Putin, the Baltics are likely to …

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Will any of the pro-#Hamas demonstrators rethink their positions following the brutal murders of Kfir and Ariel Bibas?

The Islamists know that hostages have value. From President Reagan trading arms for hostages held by Hezbollah in Lebanon, to the exchange of 1,027 ‘Palestinian’ terrorists — including Yahya Sinwar — for one captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit in October of 2011, the Islamic militants have realized that a few civilized Westerners have an outsized …

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