[February 12, 2024] The dating game. It sure has changed over the past decade, and if you’ve not been paying attention, then you’ve missed some fantastic debates among men and women. Rich Cooper “is an entrepreneur, private equity investor, content creator … and high performance coach.” He often discusses “red flags” for women and I have a list… 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 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 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 »
[January 30, 2024] Several years ago, I wrote that the United Nations was not worth the cost because it has failed to uphold its mission: to prevent war. I wrote my War College thesis with this very headline, and my conclusion then, as it is now, is the same. There is no place for the UN within a… Read More »
[January 22, 2024] I heard about sovereign citizens while watching crime videos. They often show up in popular traffic stop videos because they claim they are exempt from state or federal law. Of course, that makes for an entertaining video, as they are often dragged out of their vehicle and arrested. According to the FBI, sovereign citizens are… Read More »
[January 20, 2024] A good friend, a Vietnam Veteran, passed a story along to me yesterday. I was about a U.S. Navy jet pilot in Vietnam who was shot down, captured and spent six years in a Communist Vietnamese prison. His name is Charles Plumb, and he wrote about by asking, who’s packing your parachute? One day, this… Read More »
[January 19, 2024] Unclassified information from many sources inside and near the Russian Federation has increased concern in the West about Russia’s imminent collapse. But is it true that it is about to implode? While the collapse or implosion of any state is difficult to predict with reasonable accuracy, there are indications we can look at to help… Read More »