In 1942, Franklin Roosevelt wrote Winston Churchill a letter with one of the most arrogant lines of the entire war: "I think I can personally handle Stalin better than either your Foreign Office or my State Department." He meant it. And three years later at Yalta, the world paid for it. Roosevelt's whole strategy toward Stalin was to make him like him. His former ambassador to Moscow later said FDR told him that if he gave Stalin everything he could and asked for nothing back, Stalin would respond in kind and wouldn't try to annex anything. He was talking about a man who had just starved...

After years of fighting with the sclerotic and loathsome UK Ministry of Defense to clear his manuscript for publication, the hero of the 2019 Nairobi terrorist attack has finally been able to get his book out. This is a pristine example of military power in a single man being used to achieve a singular good. During the 2019 DusitD2 hotel complex terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya, former Special Air Service (SAS) operator Christian Craighead helped rescue and evacuate hundreds of people with estimates generally ranging from more than 100 directly aided up to hundreds or over 700 people saved...

Why don’t the US communist fan-girls and drones advocate for reading these tomes? Hoxha should make the Mamdanis and other Marxoid dullards swoon with infatuation. Enver Hoxha’s multi-volume published works—comprising his Selected Works, memoirs, reports, and political diaries issued by the 8 Nëntori Publishing House in Tirana during and after his rule—are propagandistic primary sources that function as historical artifacts of Albania's Stalinist isolation rather than objective accounts. Collected Works (Vepra): 70 volumes in Albanian. Publication began in 1968 and continued into the early...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) spends one third of one percent of the DoW budget on missile defense of the homeland. One third of one percent. Approx ten billion dollars. On defense. The grunt math of defending against incoming munitions will always require more missiles sent aloft against single incoming munitions. The Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) has less than fifty interceptors in Alaska and the west coast and maintains no layered missile defense of the homeland. The salvo competition is relentless and ruthless. A gentle reminder: ICBMs and IRBMs have been hypersonic on...

  Agatha Christie is widely regarded as the most successful fiction author of all time, with over two billion copies of her detective novels sold worldwide but I would suggest Karl Marx was the most successful fiction author of all time. Overall, Marx’ complete collected works fill fifty volumes (including articles, letters, and drafts), he authored roughly fifteen primary independent works or major book projects, many of which were left unfinished or published after he became a good communist. And, we know the communist country printing presses produced hundreds of millions of copies...

Stay tuned. I’m not sure there has been a more incompetent regional military power as the Saudis since Italy in WWII. They have the 8th largest military budget in the world. The Saudis pour billions into their military for the very best state-of-the-art equipment which makes the result even more comical. Their whole army is designed for vibes and aura farming. They’re the opposite of the Italians. Italy had terrible production, equipment and leadership, but actually fought bravely, whereas the Saudis are given all the equipment and advisors they could dream of and still fail. Mind you, the...

The F35 is a disaster and I have written about it endlessly here. The drama continues. But the F-35A remains the cheapest and least complex variant of the three. The F-35B—the short takeoff and vertical landing variant flown by the Marine Corps—is the most expensive and complicated, given its unique swiveling engine nozzle and hovering capabilities. And the F-35C, flown by both the Marine Corps and the Navy, is closer in price to the F-35B and has bigger wings than the F-35A to help with carrier landings, as well as folding wingtips to help with storage in close quarters. The revelation of...