Pete Hegseth Fat Shames Generals At A Time When Standards Matter
As Published in Daily Caller “It’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon leading commands around the country and the world,” said…
Charlie Kirk And The Pivotal Turning Point In Our Culture
Even before Charlie Kirk was pronounced dead by President Trump last Thursday at 4:40 EST, legacy media and liberal commentators were already speculating how to pin the civil…
Trump Begins to Drain the DC Swamp
Washington, D.C., is experiencing its first true transfer of power in 50 years. No state in America leans so liberal as the nation’s capital. Exhibit A: Washington voted for…
Kash Patel Is Already Making Beltway Bandits Sweat
Americans now know how deeply the deep state runs in Washington, D.C. The looming confirmation of Kash Patel will be the first reckoning at the FBI since the Church Committee’s…
Things Are Going From Bad To Worse For The Permanent Bureaucratic State
Do the Dems think rushing to the barricades to defend out-of-control spending will earn them the respect and admiration of the American public? Expect their approval ratings to…
Get to Church, Dems
Religious Americans overwhelmingly and decisively voted for Donald J. Trump, by 63 percent among Protestants and 59 percent among Catholics, according to a CNN exit poll. The…
Hegseth Will Be Confirmed
Democrats trotted out personal attacks: Hegseth drank too much at a party, he made a pass at a woman, he once went to a strip club. Oh, the horror. Can you imagine a soldier, home…
Common Sense Needs To Take Over In California — And Beyond
We need creative leaders who ask themselves “how would I handle a similar event?” and “what’s the next crisis most likely to hit my area of responsibility?” It’s a mode that seems…
Investigate The Real Radical Extremism
Your nation’s active and former military members are far more likely to save your life and property than take it. Sadly, you won’t hear that from our current commander-in-chief or…
Trump Driving Foreign Policy Blob Crazy By Daring To Put America First
Trump’s worldview is in many ways a revival of President James Monroe’s 1823 warning to other foreign powers not to meddle in America’s hemisphere — what became known as the…
Top Brass Is On The Run Ahead Of Trump’s Return
The hallways at the Pentagon are filled with a constellation of stars and the legions of staffers who support them. I’ve worked in both the Office of the Secretary of Defense and…
House Republicans Finally Putting The Squeeze On Bloated Pentagon Budget
The American public supports a strong military and is in favor of robust defense spending — but the rumor of a $600 Pentagon hammer still hits home. Taxpayers are furious that the…
Trump Brings Glimmer Of Hope For Peace In Europe
As the war in Ukraine rages onward, President-elect Donald Trump brings a glimmer of hope for peace in Europe this Christmas season. An end to the fighting hinges on three key…
Time To Make The US Navy The Fighting Force It Should Be
America’s mighty Navy is rusting away, hobbled by bureaucracy and woke regulations. From aging ships to soft fitness standards, the once-unbeatable fleet is losing its edge to a…
Playing with Fire in Ukraine
Western leaders keep touting Russia’s high death toll, which estimates now place at 600,000. To military strategists here in the United States, such a human cost is unimaginable.…
How To Get The DEI Out Of DOD
Military service is a calling. Faith, family and sacrifice lie at the core of why most people raise their right hand and pledge their lives to protect and defend the Constitution…
Trump Is Back And Foreign Leaders Are Taking Notice
Less than a week after the landslide election of former President Donald J. Trump, America’s enemies are running for cover. A Hamas spokesman told Newsweek it seeks an immediate…
Trump isn’t letting neocons off the hook
Trump is right: it’s all too easy to send other people to war. The irony of Donald Trump is that he is not just fighting against the radical left. He is in a vicious bar fight…
Calling Trump “Hitler” makes Kamala Harris look desperate
How long have Democrats been calling their Republican rivals “Hitler?” Former President Donald J. Trump was still in diapers on the eve of the 1948 election when President Harry…
Biden Needs To Stop Asking For A Ceasefire And A Two State Solution
But like a Bruce Springsteen song, the Biden-Harris administration continues to repeat itself calling for an Israeli cease-fire. In Dec. 2023, less than six weeks after Hamas’…
Kamala Isn’t Just Stupid, She’s Dangerous
Democrats seem genuinely surprised by the lackluster performance. The New York Times lamented her “verbal acrobatics” and “verbal jujitsu.” CNN took note that the veep was…
Israel’s Iron Fist
The hard truth remains: deterrence only works when your enemies believe you will act. Israel understands this. They know, as Israel’s fourth prime minister, Golda Meir, once said,…
Zelensky Jumps Into The Presidential Race With Support For Democrats
Imagine if during the presidential election of 1940, Winston Churchill came to the United States and criticized the Republican candidate running against President Franklin D.…
Biden Stumbles Towards World War III
What Trump made clear — and ABC blithely ignored — is that the Biden administration is risking a world war over Ukraine. The last time we got this close to the use of nuclear…
Harris-Walz Insult Service Members — Again
It is staggering to consider that the sitting vice president of the United States doesn’t know or care that thousands of American troops remain in a war zone. It is also shameful,…
Trump Vs. The Washington Foreign Policy Blob
Critics of Trump’s foreign policy hate his tough talk. They mock his ALL CAPS proclamations. They rolled their eyes when he warned North Korea it would be “met with fire, fury and…
Kamala Harris Reminded Americans She Plans To Carry On The Biden Legacy
Our founders clearly defined the number one job of the federal government: to “provide for the common defense.” Sadly, there were no questions in CNN’s 20-minute infomercial about…
The Party of War
When I first went to work on the Hill, I was shocked at how rarely anyone asked: “Is this in the best interest of national security?” Or: “How will this benefit the American…
Trump Rallies Prove Average Citizens Remain Engaged — With A Thirst For Truth
America, which spent most of the 20th century fighting the lock-step propaganda of Pravda and the Kremlin’s vozhds, now finds itself on the precipice of electing a woman who…
Tim Walz Has Stolen Valor
What so offends his fellow veterans, despite his 24 years of National Guard service, is that Walz claims to be a warrior but never deployed to war. There’s an expression for that…
JD Vance Is Right: It’s Time To Stop Libs From Brainwashing Our Kids Into Becoming Little Marxists
Flack is always heaviest when you’re over the target: Vance is right. The left is indeed trying to brainwash our children. Worse, the far left wants to take our children.…
Once Again, Biden Doesn’t Have A Strategy For Ukraine. Where’s The Money Going?
When the law to give Ukraine another $61 billion made its way through Congress back in April, lawmakers appropriated the money with strings attached. One big string was section…
Biden Still Has The Nuclear Codes
Our enemies likewise know America’s commander-in-chief is no longer at the wheel if in fact he ever truly helmed our ship of state. Events such as the secretary of defense…
Trump Reveals What A Sane National Security Policy Would Actually Look Like
When I began my career in journalism in the 1990s, I kept Donald Trump’s number handy in case I needed a good quote. The brash New Yorker always had just the right turn of phrase…
Biden May Help Create A Generation Of New Republicans
The president’s condition didn’t surprise Republicans because we have been sending each other memes for years — Biden lost on stage and falling off a bike; Biden being led away by…
Biden’s Most Shocking Lie
For a commander-in-chief to forget the troops who have given their last full measure of devotion on his watch is unconscionable. In August 2021, trying to fulfill Biden’s foolish…
Europeans Aren’t Concerned About Threat Of Russia Invading Continent After Ukraine
Ukraine has revealed many of NATO’s weakness. These led a professor of war studies at the University of Warwick, Anthony King, to remark that Europe has “systematically…
Biden Needs To Learn From JFK’s Handling Of The Cuban Missile Crisis
Today, few Americans grasp how closely the Biden administration is dancing to outright war with the world’s largest nuclear power. Biden’s national security team continues to…
Lessons from Normandy
Thursday’s 80th anniversary of D-Day likely marked the final major ceremony to be attended by survivors of the Juno, Omaha, Gold, Utah, and Sword beach landings. Precious few…
The Left Have Stuck Their Claws Into The Military — But House GOP Is Fighting Back
House Republicans are fighting to keep the military about breaking things and killing people, what they call a “focus on lethality.” Most of their efforts will likely get stripped…
Joe Biden’s Gaza Pier Washed Away — Along With $320 Million In Taxpayer Dollars
That a temporary pier built in the open ocean broke up in a storm should not shock anyone who has ever looked at the sea or watched the Weather Channel. Sailors since the days of…
Remember the Fallen on Memorial Day
As an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, I have buried 173 fellow service members. Some have died young, like Joshua Kaleb Watson, an ensign just out of Annapolis, shot by an…
Biden’s Inflationary Agenda Is Squeezing Out Military Funding
President Biden kicked off the discussion for 2025 by presenting the weakest presidential budget request in living memory. Our commander-in-chief asked Congress for $849.8…
America Is Really Bad At Foreign Interventions. Why Does Biden Think Ukraine Will Be Any Different?
America holds a long list of failed interventions based on bad intelligence: Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Panama, Haiti, Serbia, Grenada, Iran, South Vietnam, Congo, Cuba, Guatemala,…
This Boondoggle Shows Why We Must Reform The Pentagon’s Acquisition Process
You might think the largest procurement program at the Department of Defense would also be the best run. Instead, the Lightning II, also called the F-35, remains one of the…
The Ukraine Blame Game Begins
Instead of punishing the Biden administration’s staggering incompetence and fiduciary malfeasance, it seems Congress will reward it, bringing the Ukraine grab bag to $185 billion…
US Navy Personnel Need To Be Refocused On A Warrior Ethos—Starting With The Basics
The past seven years haven’t made the job of being a ship commander in the Western Pacific any easier. Seventh Fleet’s area of responsibility sprawls over 36 maritime countries…
Biden’s Two-State Solution For Israel: Michigan And Nevada
The blind religion of today’s modern American progressive deems strength immoral and whiteness a sin. Likewise industry and wealth are the products of a corrupt patriarchy, and…
Red China is Watching
Today, the Chinese Communist Party spends billions tracking and monitoring their own people with facial recognition, social scores, and a growing web of dystopian devices and…
Trump or Biden: Who War it Better?
In December, the International Atomic Energy Agency issued a report that Iran has obtained enough nuclear material, that if enriched, could make three nuclear weapons in a matter…
The Stench of Ukraine Corruption is Wafting Westward
In early 2014, while American politicians like John McCain were over-promising Ukrainians, “America is with you,” Hunter Biden joined the board of the Ukrainian oil and gas…
The Military Does An About-Face After Woke Garbage Tanks Recruiting
Now, after two years of plummeting recruiting and a true readiness emergency, the Army has not only taken to showing white male warriors, but it’s even asking back soldiers kicked…
Don’t Ask Israel To Pull Its Punches
As published in the Daily Caller: Saturday’s coordinated Hamas assault on Israel was the worst terror attack on a Western power since 9-11. With hundreds of Israelis dead,…
America’s Military Is Finally Getting Some Form Of Congressional Oversight
As published by the Daily Caller: Some cast last week’s confirmation of three top military officers by the U.S. Senate as a loss for Democrats and a win for conservative…
Daily Caller: Two Years After Afghanistan—a Personal Story
As published in the Daily Caller: North of Kabul, high in the Hindu Kush mountains, sits Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley. At 8,000 feet up, Panjshir successfully resisted the…
Daily Caller: Joe Biden Has Wrecked Our Military Like A Cheap Rental Car
When the next president strides into the oval office on January 20, 2025, the new commander-in-chief will get the keys to a wrecked Department of Defense, with cigarette holes in…
Daily Caller: This Lawmaker is Exposing a Dirty Little Senate Secret
What Tuberville’s moves threaten to reveal is that senators don’t actually evaluate our nation’s military leaders. Nor do most of their staff. For decades, the Senate has simply…