April 28, 2024

Tulsi Gabbard as a role model for female military leadership

Memorial Day is approaching. The Memorial Day weekend will feature a painful ritual known as “the Murph”: To honor the fallen, run 1 mile, do 100 pullups, 200 pushups, and 300 squats, in body armor, if you have it. I teared up (no a...

December 25, 2023

An early Christmas gift to Argentina

Javier Milei’s new government has kept his outrageously optimistic promises. Within days of taking office, he basically dismantled Peronism, the socialist-fascist system crippling the nation since the end of World War II. He did it by decree...

July 19, 2023

Georgia’s Newest Republican is a True Social Justice Warrior

Just days ago, Georgia State Representative Mesha Mainor, representing a deep-blue Westside Atlanta district, switched parties from Democrat to Republican. She is Georgia’s first Black Republican woman state representative. Since then, she has ...

July 11, 2023

Sending cluster munitions to Ukraine makes sense

President Biden has proposed giving cluster bombs to Ukraine.  That is the clearest indicator that the summer counteroffensive has hit a wall.  NATO and the U.S. have given virtually everything possible to Ukraine, mountains of mu...

May 29, 2022

Georgia primary day, 2022

I worked the polls on Georgia’s Primary day. In our area, the Latino vote did not show up as they did in 2020.  Our precinct area in Gwinnett County is very diverse, with many recent immigrants, mostly Spanish speaking, from every part of ...

January 19, 2022

Wokeness Hits the Upper Echelons of the Air Force

A few days ago, I noticed a disturbing tweet by Representative Dan Crenshaw about preferential treatment and lowered standards in the Air Force Special Tactics selection course.  Having sufficient background to be fairly confident in my und...

August 16, 2021

Lessons to Learn from the Loss of Afghanistan

Kandahar is fallen.  Kabul, too.  To hear again those names is to bring back a lost youth a lifetime of operations overseas.  When I heard that Kandahar had fallen to the Taliban...I had a bad day.  I did not think ...

April 8, 2021

The new Georgia voting law is anything but ‘Jim Crow 2.0’

Stacey Abrams looked me straight in the face from her twitter video, smiled, and lied to me. She revealed her utter contempt for her opponents -- whom she has libeled as unregenerate racists, and her supporters, whom she believes too stupid to check ...

June 5, 2020

A Deliberately Bankrupted America

Why are the cities burning? African Americans have been a part of our history since our nation’s founding -- they fought for independence. They are found on the Supreme Court, in military leadership, as prominent mayors, Members of Congress, ac...

April 26, 2020

Promise and Peril in Georgia

Georgia’s reopening plan has been subject to blistering, bipartisan criticism. From President Trump’s uttering Governor Brian Kemp’s name in a very displeased tone during the daily press conference, to the mayor of Atlanta saying li...

January 10, 2020

Some worrisome aspects of the Iranian missile attack

A look at the damage from the Iranian missile attack on Al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq is sobering.  The Iranian missiles showed great precision inin their attacks, and this strike provided a robust test and warning of their capabilities....

October 27, 2018

What's missing in all the Khashoggi analysis

Many years ago, I worked in the Palestinian territories in the first years that the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat had control.  The situation was fluid enough that I could travel and make friends all over the area. During thi...

July 23, 2018

NATO's real problem

NATO's predicament is easily illustrated: the Russian 1st Guards Tank Army moved from Moscow to its western border region during exercises in 2017.  The unit had 50,000 soldiers, 500 tanks, 600 armored vehicles, and 300 artillery pieces...

August 23, 2017

Violence on campus: What would Robert E. Lee do?

With statues of Robert E. Lee being torn down all over, it's fair to wonder how he would have reacted to today's mob violence.  As it happens, we have some sense of how he might react to spontaneous racially tinged violence because after...

August 16, 2017

Trump gets it

The violence in Charlottesville, and the tearing down of Robert E. Lee's statue there and in Durham, has made me angry and unhappy.  I, like many Americans and Southerners of my generation, have seen the tremendous progress in racial harmony...