Dick Cheney has Died at 84: The Passing of a Commander in the Shadows
Cheney was the quiet hand on the throttle who turned a superpower into a perpetual hunting party where the quarry was fear and the bag was the Constitution.
Cheney was the quiet hand on the throttle who turned a superpower into a perpetual hunting party where the quarry was fear and the bag was the Constitution.
Forged by colonial lines that ignored its people, Nigeria now strains under insurgency, corruption, and oil politics as the military grinds on multiple fronts and voices like Ojy Okpe refuse to look away.
On a moonlit run into North Vietnam on November 21, 1970, Bull Simons and 56 Green Berets hit Son Tay with surgical violence, found the cells empty, and left the nearby Secondary School littered with bodies that looked a lot more like Chinese advisors than local NVA, a truth the official record preferred to bury.
On a winter day over Oschersleben, James H. Howard turned a lone P-51 into a brick wall for the Luftwaffe, riding nerves of steel and dead-eye gunnery to shove a sky full of Fortresses home.
Unless honest government acts, AI will serve a New Nobility of monopolists and dark money, turning democracy into pay to play and the rest of us into serfs.
He didn’t chase glory; he ran toward gunfire because that’s where his brothers were, and that’s where duty called.
Flying low and hard over the Somme on April 21, 1918, the Red Baron chased a green Camel into Australian guns until Sergeant Cedric Popkin’s cool 200 round burst sent a single .303 round through his heart and the legend hit the beet field eight seconds later.
There is one human race, and until America confronts the living legacy of state sanctioned racism with honest education, equal law, and everyday compassion, we will keep mistaking skin tone for character.
Special Operations favors the one who thinks under fire, starts before he is told, and pulls others with him.
From Waikiki surf to Red Beach fire, Francis Brown Wai fused Chinese Hawaiian roots, Punahou grit, and UCLA discipline into a calm, relentless charge that broke the deadlock on Leyte.
Batman made it look cool, but the real Skyhook riders were the kind of men who trusted a steel wire, a balloon, and a pilot’s nerve more than luck or legend.
At 250, the U.S. Navy is a knife-fighting, carrier-slinging, storm-eating fleet that shows up in the dark, punches holes in tyranny, and sails home grinning when the shooting is done.