A New Gaza by LTG Tom McInerney, USAF (Ret) & MG Paul E Vallely US Army (Ret)
President Trump was right that Gaza is a very valuable property that must be turned into a modern, economic development zone for Arabs, Israel, and others.
Warfare
Two Allies, Two Cartridges, and One Very Big Logistics Headache
By WWI, the Allies were in a strange position: the British were firing .311-inch .303, the Americans .308-inch .30-06. Same side, different bullets.
We Were Warned in 1994… And We Still Didn’t Learn
Remember 1994? Ebola. Marburg. Deadly hemorrhagic fevers that liquefy organs, ooze blood from every orifice, and generally make a bad day look like a picnic.
Army XM7 – If It Ain’t Broke, The Army Will Fix It Anyway
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 …
Bring the Flyboys Home: Why It’s Time to Put the Air Force Back in the Army
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
Battle Damage Assessment For Operations Midnight Hammer And Rising Lion
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.
My War Against Communism: Was it all for Naught?
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.”
Do the Left Really Hate Donald Trump So Much That They’d Rather See More and More Blood Flowing Than the President Get Some Credit for Stopping a War?
Our good friends on the left — and I include the recent neoconservatives, who are not really conservative in very much among the left — are up in arms that the wicked, evil, hated President Donald Trump is trying to get at least a ceasefire, and possibly a lasting peace agreement, between Russia and Ukraine, …
Trump. Leader of the free world.
On Monday, Zelensky and European leaders flew to Washington to get the terms of agreement for an armistice between Russia and Ukraine after 3 years of war. The details need to be ironed out. Zelensky and Putin will meet head-to-head and then the will go to see the principal—aka Donald Trump—at a time and place to be determined.
The Moustache Wants More War!
If there’s anything consistent in this world today, it that former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs John Bolton loves wars in which Other People have to fight. Mr Bolton, who chose to avoid service personally in the Vietnam War, a war he supported, wants the war between Russia and Ukraine to …
We Don’t Know How the Summit Turned Out, But Our Neocons Are Hoping For Failure!
Our good friends on the left are just up in arms over President Trump’s meeting with Soviet Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in Alaska, ostensibly to discuss some way to end the Russo-Ukrainian War, which has been raging — well, maybe raging isn’t the right word; how about plodding along? — for 3½ years now. …
The 12 Days of Resilience with COL Nick Rowe: Day 9
Nobody understood how to navigate the endless battle to control what and how we think better than COL James N. “Nick” Rowe, who spent five years as a prisoner of the Viet Cong.
Warped Speed: A Novella (Chapter 8)
In, “Warped Speed,” retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Dave Cloft brings us a 12 part novella about how he sees one possible future of modern warfare. Today, Chapter 8: The Sanctuary
Ultimate Unifier
With AI, news media and truths of each party claiming hoaxes, lies, concealed evidence, government secrecy and both sides twisting and spinning everything – we have become accustomed to believing – or not – what we wish.
Make America Normal Again
A former Hollywood big name thinks America is “Abby-Normal” right now. I beg to disagree.
Warped Speed: A Novella (Chapter 6)
In, “Warped Speed,” retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Dave Cloft brings us a 12 part novella about how he sees one possible future of modern warfare. Today, Chapter 6: The Breach
Warped Speed: A Novella (Chapter 5)
In, “Warped Speed,” retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Dave Cloft brings us a 12 part novella about how he sees one possible future of modern warfare. Today, Chapter 5: Patterns in the Noise
August 10th
On August 10, 1961 the military began using a defoliant in the deltas and jungles of Vietnam. It ‘s intended use was to eliminate the forest cover and crops for the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese.
Warped Speed: A Novella (Chapter 4)
In, “Warped Speed,” retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Dave Cloft brings us a 12 part novella about how he sees one possible future of modern warfare. Today, Chapter 4: “The Campfire”
Thoughts on Nagasaki Day
My mother served as a WAC — Women’s Army Corps — in General Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters in Tokyo during the Korean War, and she came to know the Japanese people, inasmuch as that was possible for a white woman who didn’t speak Japanese, in the early 1950s. She met and married my father there, so …