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Two powerful political-military leaders definitely thought that Russia's February 2022 armored and airborne invasion of Ukraine would end quickly. The two isolated elites believed Russia would seize Kyiv. Ukrainian forces would capitulate. NATO would confront oil-rich Russia's crack armored divisions on its Polish and Baltic eastern border.

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So the Great Destructive Intra-NATO War Over Greenland Sovereignty leftish European and American media swore for over a year that President Donald Trump's aggressive January 2025 rhetoric would ignite has ...

... ultimately produced a very good security deal for all three primary parties (Greenland, the U.S., Denmark). NATO and -- for that ...Read more

As I began a column examining the violent antics of ayatollah Iran's Houthi proxy army, news media were reporting that Saudi Arabia has asked Egypt to join its coalition to destroy the Houthis' military and gangster threat to the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.

Sketching the map helps explain the strategic security and ...Read more

Critics of the Trump administration's proposed Golden Dome strategic defense system fall into two camps. Camp One I'll call "The Perpetual Rejects." Label Camp Two "The Nervous Debtors."

In the 1980s, The Perpetual Rejects ridiculed President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, calling it "Star Wars." Perpetual Rejects argued SDI ...Read more

A quarter of a century has passed since Al Qaeda's hideous Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The 25th anniversary is an appropriate moment to reflect on that horror's historical impacts.

The morning of the attack, I was outlining a "futurist" column addressing new space-based weapons programs and the increasing militarization of space. My wife ...Read more

On Aug. 5, I wrote a column entitled "Scott Bessent's Money Ammo."

When I wrote that column, the secretary of Treasury had already fired several powerful economic rounds aimed at Iran's Islamic terrorist regime. But the tough guys in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps didn't flinch -- at least rhetorically.

Propagandists are similar to ...Read more

The end of August 2026 marks the fifth anniversary of this century's biggest American foreign policy disaster: The Biden Afghanistan Bugout of 2021.

Via satellite video, a global audience watched in real time the unfolding catastrophe at Kabul's Karzai International Airport.

What should have been an orderly withdrawal conducted by the U.S. ...Read more

In the last four months, several powerful actors have emerged on the U.S. political landscape. Their agendas could affect the November U.S. midterm elections and undermine America's war on Iran's terror regime.

Most notable, and undeniable, is the Islamist-Communist-Socialist Bund (ICSB).

ICSB stalwarts worship Hamas, the Palestinian terror ...Read more

"Money is ammo."

In Baghdad 2004, that military maxim reminded troops on patrol that spending $3 to buy Fanta sodas for Iraqi kids could produce more than photo smiles. GI largesse can encourage life-saving tips. The rattle-trap car around that corner there? Little man left it an hour ago. No. He's not from our neighborhood!

It isn't news ...Read more

As I write this column on July 28, news just broke that an Iranian ballistic missile surprise attack on U.S. forces in the Middle East has shattered the No Ayatollah Nuclear Weapons War's latest ceasefire.

The Pentagon reported air and missile defense forces in the war zone successfully intercepted every Iranian missile.

Why did the remnant ...Read more

On Feb. 17 of this year, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) temporarily closed the Strait of Hormuz -- or at least claimed that it had denied non-Iranian ships the right to pass through the Strait.

That day, I wrote a column arguing the size and composition of the forces the U.S. had deployed in the Middle East and "the Pentagon's ...Read more

"Every time they make a deal, they break it. They don't want to die. People don't want to die." -- President Donald Trump on July 14, responding to a question asked Fox News' reporter Trey Yingst.

The "they" Yingst asked about are Iranian negotiators, who supposedly represent the remnant regime.

Now go back to the first sentence's "break it,...Read more

During a press conference following his July 7 meeting with Turkey's President Recep Erdogan, U.S. President Donald Trump calmly raised a military technology issue that eight years ago triggered a major NATO alliance political quarrel.

Trump told the press gaggle his administration just might sell NATO member and reliable U.S. ally Turkey the...Read more