Expert Analysis

A 2025 relook at Michael Hastings’ fatal crash that respects the lack of proof for assassination while explaining how modern connected-car technology makes certain “what if” scenarios technically plausible.

America has always been a beautiful, loud, half-broken experiment run by argumentative primates, and the only reason it keeps surviving its own dumpster fires is because enough people keep choosing the hard option, speaking up when power tells them to shut up.

Skelton’s Pledge reminds us that in an age of division and political churn, our strength still comes from individual duty joined to unity, civic accountability, and a shared commitment to liberty and justice for all.

Two weapons, one mission set, one ballistic brain: the M7 and M250 were built to fight as a paired system so squads can put accurate, sustained 6.8×51mm fire where it counts and keep constant pressure on the enemy.

Ammo was life in Prairie Fire, because when the NVA hit hard and the sky went quiet for hours, the only thing standing between ST Idaho and getting overrun was what we could carry, shoot, and keep running in the dark.

Read the entertaining account of a former Delta Force member describing the interaction between the two elite units.

Out on the dark water where the rules get thin and the trigger gets heavy, Southern Spear is less a drug bust than a deliberate message: if you run narco-terror cargo under a cartel flag, the United States will hunt you down and end the problem at sea, not in court.

Trump’s National Security Strategy isn’t isolationism, it’s a hard pivot toward a narrower, transactional worldview where borders and identity politics drive the threat picture, “Western civilization” becomes a tribal banner, and allies are left wondering if they’re partners or just the next line item to be renegotiated.

Hard-nosed realism that trades away our commitment to democracy in favor of cutting deals with dictators is not strength; it is strategic blindness that will cost America both credibility and security.

The difference between a team that thrives in misery and one that falls apart in comfort is almost never talent; it is the leader’s courage to listen, adapt, and put their people first.

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.

From a beach town built on smoothies and Muay Thai camps, I am watching two neighbors drag a century of bad maps, criminal economies, and political ego back to the edge of a shooting war.