As Turkish troops push further into Northern Syria, intent on fulfilling their long-term goal of creating a buffer zone against Kurdish separatists on Turkey’s southern border, the spin machine in DC, NYC, Jerusalem and Moscow cranks up to full speed, pushing the narrative that Putin is now in control of the Syrian sandbox and holds all the cards. That may be very true, but it is also irrelevant…

If there was ever an example of the reason why the Founders included the Second Amendment in the Constitution of the United States, the greatest document ever devised to protect the liberty of human beings, the current spectacle of the Democrat Marxist power grab in America is it…

There have been multiple airstrikes against Iranian militia targets in Syria and Iraq over the last several months by “unidentified” aircraft. The attacks seem to be aimed at destroying the “Iranian land bridge” that the precipitous President Obama pullout of American forces from Iraq enabled…

My recent column, Losing their way, service academies put our security at risk, generated much argument on both sides — I’m glad it did. The subjects highlighted in the column need to be discussed; I am in a position to force this ‘conversation’, so I will continue to do so…

A few years ago after my 30-year reunion at the U.S. Air Force Academy, I wrote several articles regarding the changes at our nation’s service academies — changes not for the better. One couldn’t help but be shocked by the lack of discipline, the lowering of standards, and the destruction of traditions that had held officer trainees in good standing for decades, if not centuries…

I spoke to several elderly Russian emigres this week while traveling abroad. They all had come to the West prior to the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. They now live in the United States and return to the motherland occasionally to visit family and old friends. They all had a very similar story to tell…