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Evening Brief: Medal of Honor Pay Boosted as Gaza Ceasefire Frays and Taliban Inherit U.S. War Gear

Medal of Honor recipients just got their pension bumped finally putting real weight behind the nation’s highest award. Meanwhile, the Gaza ceasefire is barely holding as clashes flare around the unmarked Yellow Line, and a final Afghanistan watchdog report says the U.S. left billions of arms and equipment in the hands of the Taliban.

By Galen Fries
Evening Brief: Medal of Honor Pay Boosted as Gaza Ceasefire Frays and Taliban Inherit U.S. War Gear Sgt.Maj. John L. Canley. Image Credit: Cpl. Daisha Ramirez
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Jimi Hendrix Was a Paratrooper: What the 101st Taught a Guitar Legend About Mastery

Reflecting on how Jimi Hendrix’s time as a 101st Airborne paratrooper instilled in him the discipline, fear management, and humility that later fueled his relentless pursuit of musical mastery and redefined what a guitar could do.

By Tegan Broadwater
Jimi Hendrix Was a Paratrooper: What the 101st Taught a Guitar Legend About Mastery On New Year's Eve 1969, at the Fillmore East, Hendrix dedicated "Machine Gun" to the soldiers fighting in Vietnam. Not against them. To them. Image: Image by the Author

The Bolduc Brief: Accountability for War Crimes – The Case of the Boat Strikes

If the bombing of that vessel is ultimately judged to have targeted civilians or used grossly disproportionate force, then everyone in the chain of command, from the trigger-puller up to President Trump and his Pentagon leadership, must answer for it as a potential war crime rather than dismiss it as routine business of war.

By Donald Bolduc
The Bolduc Brief: Accountability for War Crimes – The Case of the Boat Strikes Brigadier General (Ret.) Donald C. Bolduc, former U.S. Army Special Forces Commander. Image Credit: US Army

Frozen in the Ardennes: How the Bulge Turned Quiet Foxholes into a Meat Grinder

In December 1944, Hitler’s last gamble slammed into a “quiet” Ardennes sector, forcing green grunts and hard paratroopers to share frozen holes, man-handle 57s into ambush lanes, outlast Skorzeny’s chaos, and bleed the German offensive dry in the snow.

By Galen Fries
Frozen in the Ardennes: How the Bulge Turned Quiet Foxholes into a Meat Grinder American troops in a snow-filled trench during the Battle of the Bulge. Image Credit: John Florea The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock

Morning Brief: Axis, Algorithms, and a Hammer: How Great‑Power Games, AI, and Insider Threats Are Shaping the Next Fight

Russia is helping China sharpen its options for a potential Taiwan fight while U.S. lawmakers race to lock down advanced AI chips that could power Beijing’s next-generation weapons and surveillance tools. At the same time, a hammer fight in a Ranger compound at JBLM shows how insider threats and violent extremists can turn sensitive U.S. military gear into their own private arsenal, underscoring why physical security still matters as much as high-end tech.

By Galen Fries
Morning Brief: Axis, Algorithms, and a Hammer: How Great‑Power Games, AI, and Insider Threats Are Shaping the Next Fight Chinese soldiers march during a military parade in Beijing, China, earlier this month. Image Credit: Kremlin Press Office
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