Verdun with Drones: How the Future of War Looks Suspiciously Like 1916

We were promised glide paths into a frictionless era of war. Precision would replace mass. Networks would replace mud. Information dominance would compress decision cycles so tightly that victory would arrive before the coffee cooled. Instead, the war in Ukraine settled into trenches, minefields, artillery duels, and casualty math that feels uncomfortably familiar to anyone who’s ever read about 1916. The aesthetic is pure World War I, except now every trench has a charging cable.

World War III Watch: Maybe This Wasn’t the Best Idea

No, I don’t think this will result in World War III, despite my headline and stock illustration, but wars do not always turn out quite the way you expect. Der Führer certainly didn’t expect Germany to have been virtually destroyed, Hideki Tojo did not expect Japan to be utterly defeated and bombed to smoking ruins, …

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World War III Started With a Virus — Now It’s a Multi-Regional Fight and the U.S. Is Running All Four DIME Tools at Once

The modern battlefield isn’t just military anymore. It’s what the national security crowd calls DIME — Diplomacy, Intelligence, Military, and Economy — and right now the United States is fighting on all four fronts at the same time, in multiple regions, with fewer resources than it had even ten years ago. That’s not a conspiracy theory. That’s just what happens when a superpower tries to hold together a global order that is starting to come apart.

Is the new “Restore Britain” movement in the U.K. a blueprint for America?

We are squandering our country’s wealth to accommodate 10-15 million unskilled, unvetted, third-world intruders who were invited to surge America’s open borders by Joe Biden and his duplicitous Democrat underlings.

Living Behind Enemy Lines In Oregon, Tale #85: Lake Oswego Cinema Owner Succumbs To Stage Five Trump Derangement Syndrome

Living Behind Enemy Lines In Oregon, Tale #85: Lake Oswego Cinema Owner Succumbs To Stage Five Trump Derangement Syndrome

The only theater in the Portland suburb of Lake Oswego, population 39,599, lost its rights to screen “Melania” after their hatred of Trump supporters was displayed on their marquee: “To defeat your enemy. You must know them. Melania” and “Does Melania wear Prada? Find out on Friday!” 

The Destruction of the Military Pension: When ‘Obama Reform’ Meant Saving Money, Not Soldiers

Somewhere between speeches about “supporting the troops” and glossy recruiting commercials, the United States quietly decided that a guaranteed military pension was a little too generous. Not immoral. Not unfair. Just… expensive. And so, without much noise or public debate, the traditional 50% military retirement pension was downgraded, rebranded, and sold as “modernization.” Enter the …

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