Leadership Is The Difference
Reagan, Obama and Trump all faced crisis. Leadership is the difference.
Warfare
Department of War: The1947 Worst Rebrand in U.S. History (From Hero to Zero)
“Defense” sounds noble. It sounds like you’re protecting your kids. It sounds like you’re holding the line. It sounds like Mom, apple pie, and a golden retriever that would never bite anybody unless it absolutely had to.
Simo Häyhä: The White Death and His Mastery of Northern Warfare
Whether or not President Trump is able to acquire Greenland, there is the possibility of a conflict between China-Russia on one side, and the U.S. on the other, in order to control scarce resources. Today, Dave Cloft examines what that might look like from the eyes of a Winter Warfare Legend.
Trump Threatens War… Against NATO
President Trump has done something even the evil Putin hasn’t done… directly threaten a NATO country with military action.
Brains, Grit, and Improvised Survival: The Real Weapons of War
The deeper truth is that real combat resourcefulness has nothing to do with sabotage myths and everything to do with decision-making under pressure. Soldiers improvise because the battlefield demands it, not because they’re trying to outsmart physics.
PsyWar / Spiritual Warfare: How Wars Are Won Without Firing a Shot
Most people think war looks like explosions, uniforms, and some guy yelling into a radio while things burn. That’s Hollywood.
Real wars—the ones that stick—are usually won before anyone pulls a trigger.
Frozen Battlefields and Hard Men: The 10 Lessons of Arctic Warfare From Antiquity to 2025
Arctic warfare has always been the great equalizer. It humbles superpowers, burns through armies, and rewards only the few who understand that in the North, the environment is the real four-star general.
Winning a Venezuelan war without a fight; Paying off Maduro could save lives, save money and solve the Ukraine problem.
President Trump has the opportunity to do in Venezuela what Dubya could not do in Iraq—depose a dictator without a war.
Wouldn’t it be great if the Europeans could offer a real peace plan that didn’t threaten to start World War III?
Our good European friends in NATO are very, very concerned that President Trump is going to negotiate a peace deal, or at least a ceasefire, between Russian President Vladimir Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy that won’t be as favorable to Ukraine as they’d like, or, more accurately, too favorable to Russia. However, the European …
Make Money Not War; My reaction to the headline was the opposite to the one the Wall Street Journal intended.
I have long held that the reason the Arabs stopped fighting Israel was the Arabs were losing money and prestige. Wars are expensive and unless you have a surplus of military-age men that you want to get rid of, you don’t go to war.
Will Vlad and Volod kiss and make up?
Great wars always seem to hinge on obscure places. The end of the Putin War on Ukraine—or at least a cease fire—may rest upon Zaporizhzhia a metropolis of 700,000 people. Just because you may not have heard of it before does not make it unimportant.
So Many People Tell Us to Fight, Fight, Fight for Ukraine Who Never Go to Ukraine Themselves to Fight
We noted, on Saturday, that the proposed peace plan is “a horrible deal for Ukraine, no doubt about that. But it does one thing: it stops the killing! It would be very dispassionate to suggest that Ukraine should keep on fighting, and its people keep on dying, if there were any reasonable prospect that they …
The Forgotten Genocide: When the World Looked Away from Christian Armenia
Author’s Note: Tradition holds that the Armenian Church was founded by two of Jesus’ apostles — Thaddeus (also known as Jude Thaddeus) and Bartholomew — who preached the Gospel in Armenia during the 1st century A.D. While Americans scroll, rage, and “fight” spiritual wars on social media, a real one ended quietly in the mountains …
No — The Crusades Were Not a Good Thing, and Modern Calls for Holy War Are Not Biblical or Constitutional
The real danger isn’t Christians defending their families or forming lawful militias. The danger is people confusing holy war rhetoric with biblical responsibility and constitutional order.
The Trump-Haters and The Neocons Want to See the Fruitless Fighting in Ukraine Go On and On and On
If there is one thing that The Philadelphia Inquirer’s ‘Worldview’ columnist has been adamant on is arming Ukraine to fight the evil Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Russia. But even she couldn’t hide the fact that after 3½ years of war, Ukraine is starting to lose. As Ukraine falters, Trump tries to hand the country to …
How One General Serves Two Masters — And Somehow Doesn’t Get Court-Martialed for It
Here’s a fun riddle: what do you call a man who works for the President of the United States and thirty-one other heads of state — all at once — and can’t tick off any of them? Answer: The SACEUR.
The Savagery We Forgot: Bosnia’s War Didn’t Fade — We Just Stopped Looking
America has the attention span of a goldfish on an energy drink. If a war isn’t trending, isn’t hashtagged, or doesn’t have a Marvel movie tie-in, it simply evaporates from public memory. And so we forgot Bosnia.
Poor, poor #Hamas terrorists, trapped in their own tunnels
these are Hamas fanatics, who can, and will, and already have tried to continue the war. From The Jerusalem Post:
The Old Lie: A U.S. Combat Veteran Reflects on Empire
The old lie will always sound poetic. It always has. But maybe, this Veterans Day, we can start telling a new truth: The most noble act of service isn’t dying for empire — it’s living for liberty, for truth, and for the people God entrusted us to protect.
Barbed Wire Lessons – What WWII POW Camps Teach Us About the Next Great War
During World War II, America quietly became a warden to over 425,000 prisoners of war—mostly Germans, Italians, and a few thousand Japanese. They arrived in Liberty ships and railcars, scattered to more than 700 camps across 46 states.