Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.I entered the Air Force through ROTC and served for 20 years, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. I also taught for 15 years at both military and civilian colleges. As a retired military officer and as an...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. If you read the mainstream media, it would seem the answer to the Russia-Ukraine War, now about to enter its second year of mass death and widespread destruction, is weapons of various sorts. Western tanks...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.I never miss a Super Bowl, and this year’s game was close until its somewhat anti-climatic end. Of course, there’s always a winning team and a losing one, but perhaps the biggest winner remains the...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.Comrades, it has finally happened: I’ve been accused of being pro-Russia.I was accused because I advocate for diplomacy and a negotiated settlement to the Russia-Ukraine War. Generally, I’m...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.Good gawd, apparently another balloon fell victim to a missile launched from an F-22, this time over Alaska.Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a Chinese war...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.OK, so America used an ultra-expensive F-22 stealth interceptor to shoot down what may prove to be a common weather balloon that was “made in China.” But, dammit, we won! It was a perfect one-shot...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.U.S. foreign policy is a place where logic goes to die.Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, said yesterday that the quickest way to end the Russia-Ukraine War is "to give Ukraine a strong hand on the...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.My great nephew recently reported to the local MEPS (military entrance processing station) and took the oath of office. He’s enlisting in the Marine Corps and I wish him all the best.In November 2021, with him...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.I was bantering online with an old friend and fellow historian and I hit him with my best shot: history is un-American. If you think like an historian, and especially if you think America and its future actions...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.2022 has been the year of living dangerously. The Russia-Ukraine War escalated with no immediate end in sight. U.S. government officials, most notably the Democratic Party, have gotten behind Ukraine as if it’s...
