What to make of Trump’s National Security Statement now?
As a recent retiree from a reserve component, I am routinely asked by relatives and acquaintances about the current conflict…
Strategy shift: Tehran is replacing nuclear blackmail with the Strait of Hormuz
The Iranian regime is trying to turn the Strait of Hormuz into what its nuclear program once provided: a permanent…
How to topple the Iranian regime
President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu pose the first credible existential threat to the Iranian regime since 1979. Yet the…
Why We Fight
Inspired by his service in the Prussian and Russian armies in the Napoleonic wars at the start of the 19th…
Is punk Iran feeling lucky?
One of my all-time favorite movie scenes is from Dirty Harry, the Clint Eastwood detective movie, where Harry Callahan (Eastwood)…