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If War Doesn’t Steal Our Lives or Humanity, It Certainly Taints It
Sometimes yesterday feels like today. Some memories haunt me. When I close my eyes, I can travel back in time and relive them all over again; like Continue Reading
Red Dirt and Resilience: A Soldier’s Fight Beyond the Battlefield
By Derick Bosley On March 9th, 2024, at 0615, I lay flat on my back, staring up at the bluest sky I had ever seen. The world around me was dead Continue Reading
Useless Geniuses: The Complement to Useful Idiots
There’s a term that gets thrown around a lot in political and military circles: useful idiot. I wrote about it here on The Havok Journal. Other Continue Reading
The Sapient Doctrine
Awareness. Discipline. Action. There is no shortage of people today willing to sell you a mindset. Open social media for five minutes and you will Continue Reading
In Pursuit of a Challenging Life Made Easy
By Chris Foley The circumstances that led to my experience with antidepressant medication are not unique to me. Rather, I’d wager these Continue Reading
The Bribe Faucet Is Drowning the Republic
America doesn’t have a polarization problem. America has a cash-register problem. The screaming, the tribal jerseys, the cable-news arsonists, the Continue Reading
When Ike Overtook Churchill
By Jonathan W. Jordan Editor’s Note: This excerpt and image from Ike and Winston by Jonathan W. Jordan are published with permission from Continue Reading
I’m a Ukrainian Soldier and AI Almost Cost Me My Life
By Alex H. Editor’s note: This essay is a first-person account from a Ukrainian servicemember. It is not medical advice. Readers experiencing Continue Reading
We Will All Laugh at Gilded Butterflies—In or Out of Uniform
There’s a line from Shakespeare that doesn’t get nearly the mileage it deserves in modern conversation: “We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.” It Continue Reading
What Rank Cannot Fix
I recently listened to Episode 294 of The Shawn Ryan Show, with former Delta Force commander Pete Blaber. It was an outstanding episode, but more than Continue Reading
Perennial Hearts
By Ryan Mimna Time heals all wounds. But it heals in its own way. What is to be said about unspoken thoughts? Time heals all wounds. That Continue Reading