Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Part II — The Empire That Wouldn’t Quit (1878–1880, 1919) Most nations learn from pain. Empires just reload. Four decades later, London decided another Afghan “adjustment” was needed. The Russians were sniffing around again, and Britain wanted control of Kabul’s foreign policy. Cue Round Two, where British troops marched back into Afghanistan and once again …
They called it the Great Game — the 19th-century chess match between Britain and Russia for control of Central Asia. Somewhere between tea time and arrogance, the British decided Afghanistan would make a lovely buffer zone between their Indian colony and the advancing Russians.
You have to hand it to them—wars are incredibly efficient. They fix unemployment, erase debt, trim the population, spike GDP, and make the right people filthy rich. If you were a global leader addicted to fame, adrenaline, and taxpayer cash, you’d love war too.
Plans to deploy Tomahawks to Ukraine will only reveal America’s weakness.
So very, very many of the pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian demonstrators were decrying ‘genocide’ of the ‘Palestinians’ by Israel in the two-year-long war. They published all sorts of photos of places before-and-after the war. The same could have been done concerning Berlin and Dresden and Tokyo and Yokohama, because that’s what it takes to win wars. The …
Norway announced its recipient of the Nobel Prize yesterday. As peace broke out in the Middle East, the New York Post reported, “Gazans join Israelis in chanting Trump’s name over cease-fire: ‘Nobel Prize to Trump!’” President Donald John Trump earned the prize long before he ended the FAFO War that Palestinians began two years ago.
I entered the Army in July of 1993, before President Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” experiment. Back then, the military was still primarily about blowing holes in things, breaking enemy armies, and defending the Republic. Then slowly, like a frog in a pot, the Pentagon began feeding the social science laboratory every “good idea” — except the good ideas about how to win wars.
After over five years held as prisoner by Hamas, Israel Defense Force soldier Gilad Shalit reunites with his father. (Photo by Ori Shifrin / IDF Spokesperson’s Unit)One thing is clear: Israel has defeated, destroyed, demolished Hamas in every way but one: Hamas still has the hostages. Hamas says it has agreed to parts of the …
This week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth did something extraordinary: he swung a wrecking ball into the bloated bureaucracy and reminded 800 generals that their job is not to manage feelings — it’s to win wars.
Could you imagine the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth among our friends on the left if Donald Trump’s peace proposal led to a lasting peace in the Middle East, and he won the Nobel Peace Prize for it? Qatar tells US it can convince Hamas to disarm, accept Trump plan Sources told the …
Mister William was old when I interviewed him years ago. Ancient, actually. Mid-nineties. Bent and pale. “It was World War II,” William began. “I was in Italy…”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.”
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, …