I was astonished in 2009 when I saw the cancellation of the Future Combat System contract to usher in the next generation of armored vehicles. The Army cancelled the billions-dollar program and got to witness the Army continuing to burns through tens of millions a week after cancellation to fulfill contract obligations with nothing to show for it but a big smoking hole where the money had been wasted for nothing. The XM1202 light tank was another ill considered blunder in the trail of tears that is the Sovietized and sclerotic acquisition system in the US Army and the DoD. The U.S. Army...

For those of you paying attention, the Institute has been far ahead of the curve in checking its bias and making a  bloody and dispassionate appraisal of Russian fighting abilities. The Coprophile Media has been in the the bag for the Ukrainians and had a tough time admitting what savvy observers knew from the beginning of the SMO, the Ukraine had no chance of winning. Now some members of the journalist class are waking up from their propaganda induced stupor to realize the Russians may be the deadliest land force on Earth. The writer at the Wall Street Journal aver: Americans think the...

This is the semiquincentennial anniversary of the "shots heard 'round the world" at Lexington Green on 19 April 1775. Some call this civil war the Revolutionary War. It was a civil war because when the alert muster activated and Paul Revere and his fellow horsemen were warning the countryside, Revere was saying "the regulars are out" because he was British that evening in the saddle. This extraordinary event set in train the events that finalized the Atlantic seaboard divorce from the London overlords. I have walked this road in Massachusetts. I published the "Three Strikes of the Match"...

“Domestic terrorism” was used to justify the administration’s censorship agenda targeting its political and social opponents.The First and Second Amendments were targeted, of course. In secret. All fifteen pages of this document are an Orwellian nightmare. Then the classified document also suggested attacks against firearms possession. Part of the plan: BAN so-called "ghost guns" PAY states to pass so-called "Red Flag" laws BAN so-called "assault weapons" BAN so-called "high capacity magazines" And remember this delightful list from the overlords on who were the bandits and wreckers of the...

The Houthis occupy the western on third of the map above of Yemen. A ground presence will not succeed, the Saudis and a coalition of nine nations have made no progress since their invasion in 2015. US involvement in this conflict directly will not end well. Officials: US 'open' to supporting a Yemen ground operation "Under Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden, the U.S. provided significant support to the Saudi-led coalition that fought a war to oust the Houthis from 2015 to 2022,” Sheline explained. “Even with a massive air campaign as well as a ground invasion led by the Saudis and UAE in...

Some genius will be able to determine what percentage of Israeli "aid" packages essentially never leave the DC/VA corridor. That handout of taxpayer funds to Israel coupled with Israel’s, and global, demand increasing for weapons in a period of instability, has been jet fuel for stock prices. Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest weapons firm and the manufacturer of the F-35 aircraft that Israel uses in its regular bombings of Gaza, at the close of trading on October 4, has produced a 54.86% percent total return in the one year following the October 7th attacks, outperforming the S&P 500...