Category: Military

The M7 started life as the heavy new kid in the squad, but once soldiers had their say and engineers listened, it grew into a rifle worth carrying.

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.

If the fall of Maduro means one less outpost for Moscow in our hemisphere, I will not pretend to be conflicted about it, because I have seen what his patrons do to men whose only crime was fighting back.

Flight rules tighten, Trump defends strike, and regional tensions surge worldwide. Here’s your Tuesday morning brief, December 9, 2025.

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.

The Trump administration’s self-branded hard-nosed realism is in practice performative isolationism that abandons allies, emboldens authoritarians, and trades American leadership for short-term political theatrics.

Based on a lifetime in uniform, I believe these boat strike missions are illegal, immoral, strategically hollow, and a betrayal of the ethical standards that should govern American military power.

He crawled through the jungle on willpower alone, proving that character can outlast bone, muscle, and even the certainty of death.

Three quick hits this evening: Lockheed just fired up a new Huntsville hypersonics lab to speed Army strike programs, Benin swatted down a coup attempt when most of the army stayed loyal, and back in D.C. Pete Hegseth is catching shrapnel for allegedly pushing Yemen strike details over Signal like OPSEC is optional.

The last time a rising power gambled on a surprise strike to shove America out of the Pacific, it torched an anchored fleet, killed 2,403 Americans, and rewired the world order overnight.

When we order troops to carry out morally questionable strikes, we don’t just risk the target, we plant moral injury that spreads through the force, wrecks morale and trust in leadership, and creates long-term damage to the institution unless we face it honestly and care for our people.

USTRANSCOM and the transportation troops behind it are the combat enablers who move SOF and conventional troops, plus their gear, fuel, ammo, and wounded across air, sea, and ground under real threat. Every infil, resupply, and exfil depends on them.