Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. As a retired U.S. military officer, I'm appalled at the notion of "peace through strength." You may as well say "war is peace." Peace is achieved through dialogue. Diplomacy. Engagement. A spirit of good will....
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. We’re #1 (once again) in selling weapons! Amazingly, the USA now accounts for 43% of the world’s trade in deadly weaponry. No country beats more plowshares into swords and pruning hooks into spears than...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Arguably the biggest problem in America today is that the government remains on a wartime footing. The possibility of America being a normal country in normal times, at peace, is simply never mentioned. In...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I recently ordered a few items from Amazon. Random stuff like a shower caddy, an iPhone case, and lamp sockets. It won’t surprise you to learn they were all “Made in China.” I ordered some clothes from a fancy...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Readers here have heard of Ray McGovern’s MICIMATT, the military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-media-academe-think-tank complex. It’s gargantuan and lubricated with enormous sums of money. Consider...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is America’s Director of National Intelligence. Here’s a part of the ceremony, with President Trump’s introduction: What struck me in watching the short ceremony was Trump’s...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. President Donald Trump says he’s ready to tackle the Pentagon, which has failed seven audits in a row. He says America might save “trillions” after effective audits. Will it happen? The Pentagon budget...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I was reading a memoir by a combat veteran today who served in Afghanistan and he had this to say: "I remember watching the movie Saving Private Ryan with him [my dad] and all I wanted after that was to be a...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Now it's take and take and takeover, takeover It's all take and never give All these trumped up towers They're just golden showers Where are people supposed to live? Don Henley, “Gimme What You Got” (1989)...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. As Elon Musk runs amok in the U.S. government, claiming to work for government efficiency, I’ve yet to see him tackle the elephant in the room: the Pentagon budget. That budget, nominally at $900 billion,...
