Col. (Ret) Nate Slate: A Military Homecoming

Homecoming is the quiet recognition that we were never apart, that in the trials and the light alike we move within the same divine pulse binding my family, my service, and the turning of the galaxies.

The Somali Refugee Camp Rape

I sat in the dust between a surging sea of angry Somalis and a jumpy Yemeni garrison, gambling that a seated man looks less like a threat and that luck would buy enough time to keep everyone breathing.

Trump Gives CIA a Green Light for Ops in Venezuela

With CIA covert ops greenlit and Night Stalker rotors skimming the Caribbean, Washington is squeezing Maduro’s lifelines the way a dockhand cinches a hawser, while drug routes slither through the Lesser Antilles like eels in an oil slick.