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A native Californian, Colonel Eric “Ferris” Buer, USMC (Ret), spent his formative years in rural New England before graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University with a degree in economics. After accepting a commission from the Marine Corps, he was trained to fly attack helicopters. His deployments took him to the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He commanded in combat, served on the staff of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, as a professor of national security strategy at the National War College, and as an air group commanding officer. Eric is currently a senior executive for an aviation and training company. He is also a consultant and public speaker in the areas of military and commercial aviation and global conflict.
China’s People’s Liberation Army is no hollow paper tiger, but it is a politically shackled force whose missiles, drones, and cyber tools may impose brutal costs in a Taiwan fight even as its centralized leadership culture and lack of combat experience expose dangerous structural cracks beneath the parade-ground shine.
Amidst the shadowy web of proxies and patrons, Tehran’s gamble with its Axis of Resistance exposes both its strategic cunning and its Achilles’ heel, threading a precarious line between regional dominance and diplomatic isolation.
China’s collapsing birthrate is shrinking its workforce, distorting its military calculus, and compressing Beijing’s strategic timeline, creating a narrowing window in which demographic decline may push the regime toward riskier decisions abroad before its power irreversibly fades.
Xi’s sweeping purge of his own generals exposes a deeper truth: behind the parades and new hardware, China’s military remains politically shackled, combat-untested, and far less ready for a real war than its leadership wants the world to believe.
America’s enemies have built a coalition around one simple strategy: keep America divided, keep it distracted, and let our own dysfunction do the work their missiles and tanks cannot.
America’s undeclared war on drugs has killed more of our people than any foreign enemy since World War II, yet it remains a conflict fought in legal and political shadows where no one has to admit we are at war or explain how it ends.
Trump’s October Gaza plan feels like another lap in the same exhausted cycle, where Palestinian leaders refuse statehood, dodge disarmament, and turn ceasefires into reloads while civilians foot the bill.
Iran’s muted response to Operation Midnight Hammer shows a regime more concerned with survival and internal security than revolutionary posturing, revealing cracks in both its proxy network and its long-claimed mantle of regional power.
Putin’s overreach pushes the European Union toward NATO-style defense of Ukraine, forging deep ties that may outlast the war itself.
The quiet recalibration unfolding in Europe isn’t anti-American—it’s a sober hedge against a superpower that’s proven too erratic to count on.
Military supremacy might win battles, but it can’t untangle the centuries of blood, belief, and bitterness that fuel these wars—and that’s the hard truth no arsenal can fix.
When loyalty shifts from the Constitution to politics, our democracy trembles. The military oath must remain fiercely apolitical.
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