I’m stunned by the amount of people who don’t understand that decisive violence is sometimes the highest form of mercy in war. I think I’ve found the real national security threat. It certainly isn’t climate change. It’s will.

Less than 1% of the population is Active Duty Military, less than 6% of the US population has ever served in our military, and only a percentage of those that have served have ever seen war. That means that roughly over 95% of the American population has no idea what war

TLDR maybe but I feel this should be said. I don’t have much time to write these days. I’m too busy doing something. But before I put my pen down tonight, I want to explain why I care so deeply about quality over quantity in the military, why inspirational leadership matters, and

Asymmetric Fear Threshold I realized something today about our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Something I’ve always known, but only now can fully articulate. We encountered what I’d call an asymmetric fear threshold. In the West, killing one or two induces shock and compliance.

A Confederacy of Fabulists Lately beleaguered CNN and MSNBC have brought in a number of former Obama-administration related officials or supporters to comment on DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s recent release of a trove of incriminating documents. The release highlights lame-duck President

Even after decades in uniform and a lifetime studying history, I’m still humbled by one thing: The kind of person who signs a blank check to the Constitution. Payable up to and including their life. In 2025, it’s easy to lose faith in America’s youth. But they’re still out

Let me explain the evolution of entitled feminine energy, and how it leads a civilization to ruin: 1. It starts by demanding that men be gentler. 2.Then it demands mercy for enemies, no matter their crimes. 3.Then it imposes rules of engagement in war so restrictive, you must be

Here is what happens in a nutshell: Some Gazan, or possibly just Arab somewhere randomly, films people running away with gunshots happening somewhere, yet you never see who is shooting. They are always shooting AKs too, which the IDF doesn’t use, which is why there is never

There is no right or left any longer…there never really was. It is all too muddled, with ideologies being smashed together or completely misidentified. Communism and socialism are on the “left,” but fascism and nazism were both created by lifelong leftists and then people said

Let’s set the record straight on Iraq’s “Weapons of Mass Destruction.” I knew guys personally who participated in the search and died from rare cancers because of it! Yes, WMDs were found in Iraq. But not the kind the CIA and Bush administration used to justify war. What was

Let’s once again make this crystal clear because even smart people are incredibly stupid about this: If you start a war with a superior power and kill thousands of their citizens, some of them in their own homes, and then take hundreds more hostage, you and your populace will be

The great sin of modern Western society is the conceit that all cultures are equally valid and valuable. A culture that rapes little boys and girls and treats women as chattel property as a normal course matter should be and must be condemned for its backwards, evil, inhuman

An apparent Brit has, as Brits will, made the claim that the US needs the UK to win a war. (1) Dabber Thoughts on X: "A crybaby’s worst nightmare cdrsalamander InfantryDort Name a war the US has won without UK support." / X I commented there but this is a more complete answer to the

General officers love contributing to liberal publications like the New York Times. “We are the media now,” so allow me an unfiltered firsthand response to recent articles: Recently retired General Patrick Donahoe Patrick Donahoe posted on X a Times article he captioned, “We

Why was LTG Sims denied a 4th star and promotion? According to Stu, he refused to cooperate with an investigation because there was a “lack of democrats” on the panel. He didn’t want to “politicize the military.” This is simultaneously an enormous revelation and insight into

Share widely: Defenderata (Copyright ©, 2017, Thomas P. Kratman) Go cautiously and armed amidst the Black Lives Matter demonstrations and riots and remember, whitey, that although their lives matter, yours does not. There are people with whom you cannot get along without

“The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any other appellation derived from local discriminations…Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate

My man…by a simple order, you executed an American citizen via drone abroad in 2011 … how about you sit this one out.

I mentioned in an earlier thread that Democrats play the long game and rely on incrementalism (the “slippery slope”) to achieve their nefarious aims. Let me give you some more hard truths about Democrats. Democrats will NEVER admit it (and will deny it) but they have the

I really don’t like it when racists, antisemites, xenophobes and/or all-around nutters follow me on X. I don’t like being associated with any of that. So, on this Labor Day, here is a compendium of twenty things about me (or things I believe) that I know are deeply unpopular in