Another USN ship disaster in the offing. Contrary to what one would first think, this is tangential to the "IED* recruiting crisis." This is due to a separate recruiting crisis in Military Sealift Command (MSC) caused by the extreme workloads the civilian mariners who...
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Ukrainian Commanders Blame Poorly Trained Soldiers for Donbas Losses
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 22, 2024 | News
As Kiev attempts to bask in triumph over its territorial gains inside of Russia, its forces are losing territory along the Eastern front lines in Ukraine. Ukrainian military commanders say the reason for the losses is poorly trained soldiers; many are even afraid to...

How Taiwan Became an Issue
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Given that official Washington seems increasingly determined to fight Beijing over Taiwan, concerned Americans are right to wonder: how did the question of Taiwan come to be of such purported importance to these global powers? While several closer islands, such as the...
Broken: The American Shipbuilding Crisis
by Bill Buppert | Aug 22, 2024 | Blog
USS The Sullivans sinking in New York in 2022. Over the decades, the destroyers have fallen into various states of disrepair. In April 2022, The Sullivans suffered a hull breach and partially sank at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park in Buffalo,...
News Roundup 8/22/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 22, 2024 | News Roundup
Ukraine Moscow Says It Repelled ‘One of the Largest’ Ukrainian Drone Attacks AWC Ukraine Says It’s Using US-Provided HIMARS Inside Russia AWC China US Vows To Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea After Latest Collision AWC Israel Hostage Talks at Impasse...
Israeli Intel Chief Takes Responsibility for Oct 7 Failures in Resignation Speech
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 21, 2024 | News
In his final speech as the chief of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva said he accepted responsibility for his role in the failure to warn about the October 7 Hamas attack. Nearly 1,200 people were killed during the rampage, including...
Surprise! Ukrainian Aid is Mismanaged
by Bill Buppert | Aug 21, 2024 | Blog
One discovers that war-making by the West after WWII around the world started to see a trend that Smedley Butler would knowingly nod at as the sophisticated money-laundering complex to provide weapons and assistance in hundreds of conflicts.The tracking and auditing...
The Cost of Kursk
by Ted Snider | Aug 21, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The bold and surprising incursion across the border into the Kursk region of Russia has won Ukraine the temporary possession of several Russian villages and a few hundred square miles of Russian territory. But the strategically cheap Russian land may have been bought...
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Another Notch in the Spine
The following is the first draft of a short story for a collection I am working on. I hope you enjoy it. Cheers! --Patrick On the morning of my first kill, I woke up before Mom had come to get me. I gazed up at the concrete ceiling, where the night before, Dad helped...
Never Let Me Go
Recently Patrick Macfarlane, my fellow, fellow at this dear Institute discussed on his Vital Dissent podcast the Kazuo Ishiguro novel, Never Let Me Go. In his books Ishiguro frequently covers memories, relationships and the human condition. Never Let Me Go, is a...
RIP Ozzy
Kyle joins me to discuss what Ozzy means to modern music, and my trip to NOLA. ALP
Based on a true story…or not.
Based on a true story, allegedly. Or maybe not. (Warning, violent content) Fourteen years ago. Give or take. He read the text message, an address. He understood where it led. The previous nights conversation with two off duty cops had been as direct as the message. He...
New Episode of The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Dave DeCamp: The Escalating Ukraine Proxy War
The intertwining of military aid, global alliances, and political positioning takes center stage as Dave DeCamp, news editor at AntiWar.com, joins Kyle Anzalone to unpack the most pressing foreign policy developments happening beneath mainstream headlines. Trump's...
Bryan Caplan and Me
I sat down recently for a chat with my old friend Bryan Caplan.
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