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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.
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.
President Trump has the opportunity to do in Venezuela what Dubya could not do in Iraq—depose a dictator without a war.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
these are Hamas fanatics, who can, and will, and already have tried to continue the war. From The Jerusalem Post:
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.
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.
Use of force without direct Congressional authorization is often problematic. But that doesn’t make it illegal or unconstitutional.
After World War I, the victorious allies, with the blessings of the newly formed United Nations, carved up the Ottoman Empire creating the independent nations of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel.
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.