Author: editor11122

My father served thirty-four years in the United States Army. When he finally realized I was determined to accept a commission, he sat me down and offered that piece of wisdom. He had others, equally memorable, equally brutal. But that one stayed with me. The great majority of flag officers cannot be trusted. I worked with many generals during my service as an officer and later as a career Senior Executive Service civilian. My father was correct. The system produces, in peacetime and in any condition short of total war, men who may look like leaders devoted to their trade…

while his son remains unpunished for his Burisma grift. Let me lay this out as clearly as I can, because the noise machine is running at full capacity and the truth is getting buried under an avalanche of propaganda. The Washington establishment is beating the drums for war with Russia over Ukraine. Every network is running graphics of troop movements. Every pundit is warning about an imminent invasion. Every politician is competing to sound toughest on Putin. It’s a familiar spectacle, one we’ve seen before—before Iraq, before Libya, before every disastrous intervention the permanent war party has cooked up in…

Every time dozens of mainland fighter jets scream into Taiwan’s air defense zone, Taipei scrambles its own aircraft. And every time, the world holds its breath, hoping a misunderstood signal doesn’t become a funeral pyre. The BBC frames it as a question of intentions: Is Beijing building toward invasion? Are the patriotic movies softening public opinion? Did Xi really promise Biden he wouldn’t do it? These are the wrong questions. The only question that matters—the one whispered in Situation Rooms and buried in presidential briefings—is this: Would the United States go to war with a nuclear-armed China over Taiwan? Not economic…

Patrick Armstrong’s September 2021 sitrep reads differently now than it did then. Written months before the tanks rolled, it captures a Russia that the Western media refuses to see—a country that is not decaying, not isolated, not on the verge of collapse, but quietly building, training, and preparing while the West obsesses over narratives. The exercises first. Zapad 2021, the annual strategic drill working its way around Russia’s compass points. Two hundred thousand troops, by the Russian count, though alarmists like Anne Applebaum inflated the numbers as they always do. The highlights were genuine military achievements: a night drop of…

1949. Two blocks from our house, I could catch the J car and ride it all the way downtown. Yellow cars. Red cars. Wiki, wiki, wiki through a city that worked. My father was stationed at the federal building in those years, and we lived in an Okie immigrant community just south of LA proper. I was a boy with a bicycle and a three-mile ride to school every morning, past streets that were clean and safe, through neighborhoods that didn’t lock their doors. Compton. Lynwood. South Gate. Say those names now and watch people flinch. But then? They were…

My wife and I rolled up our sleeves in April. Moderna, both of us. I’m eighty-one, she’s seventy-nine. We did what we were told, what the experts recommended, what seemed like the only sensible choice at the time. Protect ourselves. Protect each other. Do our part. We have been sick ever since. She’s had it easier than me. I ended up in the ICU on June second with a cerebral hemorrhage. They drilled into my skull, drained the blood, kept me for five days while machines beeped and nurses came and went with that particular expression they wear when they’re…

The tragic loss of 13 American service members at Abbey Gate is not merely the result of chaos; it is the predictable outcome of a deliberate conspiracy. It is highly probable that the Taliban and the Haqqani network—the very entities currently tasked with providing security in Kabul—facilitated the movement of the attackers. This incident underscores a fundamental truth about the battlefield: the alliance between jihadi factions—whether Taliban, ISIS-K, or Al-Qaeda—is stronger than the West’s desire to believe otherwise. While they may compete for territory, they remain united in their ultimate objective: the defeat of the kuffar (non-believers) and the murtad (Afghan apostates who resist…

Having stretched out rosy-rumped Doris across the bed in verdant flowers, I have now become immortal. For she, bestriding me midmost with her exquisite legs, achieved unswerving Cypris’ lengthy race. Her eyes gaze languidly, like leaves in the wind, while tossing all about, she trembled sanguine, until sacred wine poured out white strength from us both, and Doris languidly lay with relaxed limbs. This is a poem that would indeed cause a racket in certain quarters. Not because it is obscene—it is not. Not because it is exploitative—it is not that either. But because it refuses to submit to the…

The tweet lands like a punch to the gut, not because of its crudeness but because of its accuracy. We’re so fucking screwed. That’s the takeaway from watching our national security institutions transform themselves into diversity recruitment vehicles while the world burns. Let me be absolutely clear about my point, because I know how easy it is to be misunderstood on this subject. One’s sexuality should not matter. One’s skin color should not matter. What matters is whether the man or woman loves America and is willing to protect and defend the Constitution. Period. Full stop. I’ve served alongside men…