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 during the overall 20-hour operation alongside Kenyan security forces.

“Now and again we would hear a burst of automatic fire coming from elsewhere in the complex – each one a reminder that time was of the essence. We still had no idea where the gunmen were and how many people they might be killing. ‘Press on, push on,’ I muttered to myself…”

22 SAS Warrant Officer Christian Craighead’s book “One Man In: The Explosive Firsthand Account of the Lone Special-Ops Commando Who Fought Off a Major Terrorist Attack in Kenya” released today.

Shawn Ryan interviews him here.

Obi-Wan Nairobi for the win.

Thank goodness he is now an American citizen; he lives in Texas.

Buy the book.

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 1990s (the last official volume covers March–April 1979). This is the complete chronological collection of speeches, reports, articles, notes, and other documents.

Selected Works (Veprat e Zgjedhura / Obras Escogidas): 6 volumes. These were issued between 1974 and 1987 and translated into English and several other languages. They cover the period 1941–1984.

Massive Output: Hoxha was a prolific writer who published dozens of voluminous works, memoirs (such as With Stalin and The Anglo-American Threat to Albania), and multi-volume Selected Works documenting the Party of Labour’s trajectory from 1941 onward.

Revisionist Narrative: The texts are heavily dominated by the ideological objective of framing Albania as the world’s sole true Marxist-Leninist regime, systematically rewriting history to justify domestic purges and severe state paranoia.

Geopolitical Polemics: Successive volumes chart Hoxha’s ideological fallout and vitriolic denunciations of former allies—first Yugoslavia and Tito, then the Soviet Union under Khrushchev, and finally Mao’s China.

And don’t forget the jobs program to build 173,371 bunkers and fortified structures completed by 1983, out of a planned 221,143. This figure comes from Albanian military records and the Bunk’Art museum. Most of these were the small mushroom-shaped QZ bunkers (roughly 160,000+ of the iconic small domes). Later sources and a 2024 declassified map confirm the realized total stayed in the 173,000–180,000 range. The often-cited density of 5.7 bunkers per square kilometer matches the ~173,000 figure.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1988-03-01/artful-albanian-memoirs-enver-hoxha

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 atmospheric return since the 1950s. The US has not only spent tens of billions on failed offensive hypersonics (Dark Eagle, ARRW and HALO) but has no capability whatsoever to target terminally maneuvering inbound hypersonics.

Dark Eagle:

The Failures: An October 2021 test in Alaska failed when the rocket booster broke apart shortly after launch. Other tests were cancelled or delayed due to pre-flight check problems.

Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW):

The Failures: The missile suffered repeated test failures in 2021, 2022, and 2023. A March 2023 test failed to gather the needed data, and flights in August and October 2023 also stumbled.

Hypersonic Air-Launched Offensive (HALO):

The Failures: High costs and technical design limits caused major friction.

Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS):

The Failures: A July 2022 flight test in Hawaii failed after ignition because of an unexpected anomaly. An earlier test in October failed to leave the launch pad.

Do something.

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 of these turgid and long-winded novels.

So I would contend Marx is the leading fiction writer of all time.