Let’s stop bullshitting ourselves: America’s foreign policy lumbers around the globe like a blackout town drunk—smashing windows, claiming it's a rescue mission, and wondering why no one wants the help. For the last 50+ years, we’ve worn the cape of “global leader”… [Read more…]
Let’s stop bullshitting ourselves: America’s foreign policy lumbers around the globe like a blackout town drunk—smashing windows, claiming it's a rescue mission, and wondering why no one wants the help. For the last 50+ years, we’ve worn the cape of “global leader” while setting half the world on fire—and now we’re shocked people don’t want to invite us to the barbecue. … [Read more…]
You know it's a bad poker night when you're bluffing with an IOU scribbled on a cocktail napkin and the other guy's holding aces. That's precisely where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky finds himself—trapped in a geopolitical dumpster fire, relying on U.S. goodwill that's as stable as a meth-fueled Diddy orgy. My first visit was in 2016 during the winter with my … [Read more…]
The unmitigated vitriol we are seeing at Harvard, Columbia, and over 500 other campuses world-wide since the unprovoked HAMAS October 7, 2023, massacre and subsequent Israeli military response in Gaza draws attention to these institution's failures to provide historical context, protect Jewish students, or provide the education for which they were established. Let’s start at … [Read more…]
Leonard Glenn Francis, better known as “Fat Leonard,” is appealing his 15-year prison sentence. He argues that his punishment is excessive. In a way, he’s right - at least when compared to the Navy officers who took his bribes, compromised national security, defrauded the American people, and walked away nearly untouched. Leonard may be behind bars, but the uncomfortable … [Read more…]
Pete Hegseth just tossed a live grenade into the Pentagon's upper echelon—and God bless him for it. Predictably, the manicured mainstream media jackals have lost their collective minds, feasting ravenously on every scrap of "Dung" they can find or fabricate. Take today's WSJ hit piece on Hegseth titled: Hegseth Faces Heat After New Signal Chat Emerges and Claim of Pentagon … [Read more…]
The Pope has popped smoke. He's cashed in his holy chips and exited stage left, leaving a turbulent Church teetering towards relevancy like a drunken sailor stumbling home from Fleet Week. His death today marks more than just another solemn Vatican event; it symbolizes the deepening existential crisis facing an institution that’s lost touch with the modern world quicker than … [Read more…]
In March 2025, the U.S. Air Force Academy announced that nearly 100 cadets were under investigation for cheating. It’s the latest in a growing pattern. Once rare and met with mass expulsions, large-scale cheating scandals at the academies have become alarmingly common, and the consequences have become increasingly lenient. The academies aren’t just struggling to prevent … [Read more…]
Combat is the single highest-risk life event known to mankind. So much so that as many as 96 percent of the men who stormed Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day of WWII were killed or wounded. And if you consider the mental state of the four percent who were not physical casualties… well, where did the percentage lie then? High-risk training is how the military attempts to … [Read more…]
The World Record Sniper Kill For a detailed analysis of the Mosul world record shot, see The Perfect Long-Range Kill and Science of the Long-Range Kill. The first deals with holdover, the second with stability and spin drift. This article continues with the Coriolis adjustment. In 2017, a pair of Canadian JTF2 sniper teams was operating from a firing position on the east … [Read more…]
The Abrams’ Smoothbore Sabot The American M1 Abrams is equipped with a 120mm smoothbore cannon. It fires armor-piercing discarding sabots with depleted uranium penetrators. This ammunition kills by penetrating enemy armor with kinetic energy. The penetrator is like a super-hard bolt that drills a hole in the enemy tank purely by the velocity and energy with which it arrives. … [Read more…]
Editor’s Note: In this final installment of our weekly column on the “Practice of Unconventional Warfare,” former Green Beret Curtis Fox delivers a hard-hitting critique of USASOC’s current structure and offers a bold roadmap for reform. With the return of strategic competition and rising global instability, this piece argues that Special Forces must urgently realign with their … [Read more…]
Information is a weapon. From the first time I fired a .22 rifle at camp the summer after second grade to my first read-in and access to classified information and then to advanced weapons training and combat deployments with various Naval Special Operations Forces (NAVSOF) elements, there was never a doubt that I was being entrusted with weapons that, when used improperly or … [Read more…]
