Galen Fries

About the author

Galen Fries is a United States Army and Army National Guard veteran with thirty years of service, including deployments in support of Operations Desert Shield/Storm and Iraqi Freedom III. A Forward Artillery Observer, he also served on pre-deployment training teams and is a certified instructor in mental resilience, land navigation, small arms, and fire support techniques. Following his military career, Fries trained students in electrical, plumbing, and carpentry disciplines at Clover Park Technical College. A lifelong prepper and advocate for self-reliance, he is the author of Up To Speed: A Prepper’s Guide and is currently working on a military fiction novel exploring survival, morality, and human resilience in the aftermath of collapse.

BOOK REVIEW: If You Read One Book This Year, Make It Factfulness

Factfulness is a powerful, data‑driven argument that the world is far better and more stable than fear‑ridden media and instinctive thinking make it seem, and that adopting a fact‑based worldview is the key to clearer, less panicked decision‑making in an age of hype and hysteria.

DARPA Blackjack: Proving Resilient Military Space at Commercial Scale

DARPA’s Blackjack program demonstrates how low-cost, proliferated satellites in low Earth orbit can deliver resilient military space capabilities by leveraging commercial technology, autonomy, and distributed architectures instead of relying on a few vulnerable high-value systems.

Book Review: ARISEN, Operators Volume III – Brothers

BROTHERS rips Yaël Sion out of the warm, so‑called safety of the team, strips her down past rank, résumé, and operator ego, and dares you to suck it up and ride shotgun while she bleeds, breaks, and still brings unholy hell to the world that cut her loose.