Author Archives: Douglas R. Satterfield
[February 9, 2024] My wife Nancy alerted me to a book titled “First Steps for Little Feet in Gospel Paths,” initially copyrighted in 1882 by Charles Foster. Her copy is dated 1913 with a handwritten inscription, “To Tommy from Aunt Jane and Uncle Maurice Easter – 1939.” Nancy wanted to share one of the short stories. I want… Read More »
[February 8, 2024] As a teenager, I saw that America was changing, sometimes fast and flashy like a county fair carousel and also slow and sleepy like a hound dog taking a nap on the front porch. My parents would tell us kids about the “good old days” when they walked miles to school and then had to… Read More »
[February 7, 2024] You may wonder why I’m writing about Nazi Ernst Udet, a man who oversaw the failure of the German Luftwaffe during the early years of WW2. I found that studying leadership failures is a fast-track way of learning to be better at what you do. But, more importantly, the lesson for senior leaders is to… Read More »
[February 6, 2024] Miracles do happen. I’d been delivering newspapers on my bicycle back in my old High School days, just a few blocks from where I lived, and standing next to a green-colored, early 1950s Studebaker Champion car was this older man who looked meaner than dirt and older than Moses. With his shirt sleeves rolled up,… Read More »
[February 5, 2024] A few days before the start of my Junior year in High School, me and a few of my best buddies sat around a large fire pit eating, drinking soda, and yakking it up about whatever we wanted. The conversation strayed to many topics, and most of all, we spoke of girls. All summer, we… Read More »
[February 4, 2024] The war of ideas is ON. Dr. Jordan Peterson, psychologist and bestselling author, just lost the appeal that ordered him to undergo “remedial social media training” because of what he believes. His “debauchery” was for tweeting his opinions, something Canada’s College of Psychologists of Ontario did not like. “Canada’s constitution guarantees freedom of conscience, religion,… Read More »
[February 3, 2024] Headlines read, “America and Iran step closure to the brink of war.” The question that’s answer puzzles senior military and political leaders today in America is whether our appeasement of Iran will lead to a war with Iran. The answer is yes. Political appeasement is dangerous, and history tells us that it often does not… Read More »
[February 2, 2024] Released Gaza hostage Mia Regev was kidnapped on October 7th by Hamas terrorists. Yesterday, she told U.N. ambassadors how she was treated in Gaza. At least some politicians are listening to her tale. Mia Regev has great strength of character to stand before the U.N. and tell her story. “They tore off my clothes. They… Read More »
[February 1, 2024] Earlier this week, large numbers of French farmers surrounded the city of Paris in protest of the EU’s Green Deal. Thousands of harvesters, tractors, trailers, and other farm vehicles blocked major highways in and out of Paris, Lyon, Limoges, and Toulouse. Like other farmers from Ireland and Germany, they are joining a Europe-wide fightback against… Read More »
[January 31, 2024] Here is a fact that all military personnel know: weak leadership always backfires and will get you killed. The unnecessary U.S. Soldier deaths in Jordan a few days ago in an outpost in Jordan, killed by an Iranian proxy using a drone, is due to weak political leadership in America. This is not my opinion;… Read More »