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Leave No One Behind
By Darin Gaub Understanding Personnel Recovery and Combat Search and Rescue in the military: it’s a national strategic mission and is resourced Continue Reading
Burning the Lifeboat to Boo the Captain
There is a species of American political actor who would oppose penicillin if Trump handed out the prescription. That is not principle. That is not Continue Reading
NY Is Starting to Run Out of Other Peoples’ Money
Margaret Thatcher said it years ago: socialism works—until you run out of other people’s money. New York may not call itself socialist, but the Continue Reading
America Runs on Fraud and Calls It Growth
Here's the first rule of modern American economics: if you can light taxpayer money on fire and warm three adjacent zip codes, somebody in a navy suit Continue Reading
Iran’s “’Tis Only a Fleshwound” Strategy
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned about lies. Monty Python warned about something else entirely—delusion. Oddly enough, the latter might be more Continue Reading
The Alibi Factory
The cleverest racket in public life is not corruption. Corruption is almost refreshingly honest. It leaves fingerprints, invoices, cousins on payroll, Continue Reading
Leave No One Behind: It’s OK That the Rest of the World Doesn’t Understand
There are a lot of things about the US military that don’t make sense from the outside looking in. Why we train the way we do.Why we push people to Continue Reading
Communism With Better Branding
For an ideology that allegedly died in disgrace, communism’s had a fantastic second act. Not a comeback exactly. More like a wardrobe change, a media Continue Reading
Once You Strike the Match, You Don’t Get to Lecture the Fire on Its Manners
There is a comforting lie we tell ourselves about violence: that it can be summoned, directed, and restrained according to our intentions. That we can Continue Reading
The Costume Shop for Moral Outrage
If you want to understand modern politics, stop looking at policy and start looking at costumes. Everyone is auditioning for the role of Continue Reading
Fayetteville and the War’s Last Days
By Cristóbal S. Berry-Cabán For seventeen years I lived a ten-minute walk from the site of the historic Fayetteville Arsenal, destroyed more than Continue Reading