The world is full of extreme analogues, those things that are like us, but more extreme. If you’re smart, you can figure out how to use them. We use them all the […]
The Extreme Analogue
The Things You Learn About Terrorism, Fighting Terrorism.
I never lost much sleep over what happened to the people we hunted that were doing the types of things that made us hunt them. Chances are, if we came knocking at […]
Fifty
The average age of an American serviceman killed in Vietnam was 23 years old. In Iraq, it was 27. The average American lives to be about 80. The data for other conflicts […]
The Blank Check
“A veteran is someone who wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America for an amount up to and including their life.” That’s an unattributed quote that gets […]
An Open Apology to the Confederacy
I’d like to take a moment to apologize for something I did a few days ago. It was a foolish thing. I was rash. And I did something wrong. I went ahead […]
The Good and Strong: To the Class of ’17 from my Alma Mater
It’s all going to be over soon. You’ll be out on that clean, green field with the sun bearing down on you, bathing those crisp white uniforms in a blinding glare. You’ll […]
The Consequences of Democracy
“This is political Jihad perpetrated by the Democrats.” James Woods of 80’s movie character actor fame and more recent but less entertaining conservative tweet fame tweeted. He’s right. Though, I’ve been through […]
