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A Georgia auto-shop owner and former Army tank crewman who served in the early Iraq occupation, then came home to run his family's two-generation garage. He spent fifteen years with the waiting-room TV on Fox News before his own faith led him to see the nationalism he'd absorbed as the opposite of the discipleship his Bible asked for. He writes on war, strategy, and the military-industrial complex — quoting Sun Tzu and Eisenhower's farewell with the seriousness of a man who's had to use both.
Defense contractors are getting rich off a war your family pays for at the pump. Sunday, U.S. forces struck Iranian launch sites preparing to fire rockets loaded with naval mines into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran fired missiles at Jordan in return. Every one was intercepted. Pentagon called it a win. Gas went up three cents. Those interceptors run about $3.5 million apiece.…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READNow, I'm just a simple man, but I know what a parts counter looks like when somebody is being charged for something they didn't order. The statement the North Korean Foreign Ministry put out Aug. 31 is the diplomatic equivalent of a customer showing up with a bill in hand and saying, this is what's mine now, and you are going to call it what I call it. "The Trump…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READChristopher Harborne is buying Britain's defence policy with his defence-industry portfolio. I was under a transmission last Tuesday when a man I've changed oil for fifteen years came into the shop with his daughter. She needed steady…
2026-08-30 · 3 MIN READThe USS Abraham Lincoln slipped past Singapore in the dark early Sunday morning — spotted by Associated Press journalists on the Indonesian island of Batam, across the Singapore Strait, shortly after 1 a.m. local time — ending a…
2026-08-30 · 4 MIN READThe woman on the sewing line in the Toronto garment shop is stitching camouflage helmet covers for the Canadian military now. A few months ago she was stitching winter parkas. Same machines, same hands, different thread, and a question…
2026-08-27 · 5 MIN READRobert Gilman walked out of Russia this month after more than four years in a cell. He looked gaunt. He looked sickly. The man who looked at those pictures from his kitchen in this country is Harold Jezler. His wife Olga has been in a Russian cell since 2022. "You just look at the pictures and the guy is not in good shape," Harold said. "It's concerning for me and for all the…
2026-08-26 · 4 MIN READMonday's phone call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun was a coordination meeting. The thing being coordinated was the United States–South Korea alliance, twenty-eight thousand five hundred American troops stationed in Korea, a forward-deployed presence that has been the spine of Pacific defense since the 1953 armistice. The…
2026-08-26 · 4 MIN READGov. Jeff Landry asked for soldiers on Bourbon Street and kept them there for eight months. The line cooks, dishwashers, and hotel housekeepers who work those blocks walked past them on their way to clock in every shift. The last 120…
2026-08-25 · 4 MIN READTrump is abandoning the South Korean alliance to a nuclear North Korea. Now, I'm just a simple man, but when I read that the Marines just killed their biggest beach drill with South Korea, my first thought wasn't about deterrence theory.…
2026-08-24 · 5 MIN READTrump and the Pentagon are burning through America's arsenal on a war they cannot finish. Let me get to the parts counter before I get to the policy. A man came into my shop last week with a 2014 F-150. The transmission had gone out. He…
2026-08-21 · 4 MIN READTrump and Hegseth are killing people on boats and calling it drug interdiction. The latest strike was early Monday in the eastern Pacific. Two more dead. The count is past 210 now, across more than 60 strikes since this campaign started.…
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READTrump's Pentagon is turning the Philippines into a missile launchpad for a war with China. The sailors who spelled "Farewell Subic" in white paint on the carrier runway in March 1992 were wrong about one thing. They thought they meant it.…
2026-08-19 · 5 MIN READ
Trump's Pentagon is blackmailing universities into terminating their foreign research partnerships. The Department of Defense told thirty unnamed American universities on Monday that they have until August 31 to audit every collaboration…
2026-08-18 · 4 MIN READTrump gutted the exercises that keep South Korea safe — to please Kim Jong Un. That is the plain reading of what he posted Sunday from the White House, and it deserves plain words. He ordered the Pentagon to "substantially reduce" the…
2026-08-17 · 4 MIN READThe State Department got its receipt on Friday. Three months earlier, it had donated $2.3 million in military equipment to Niger's military junta. Kevin Rideout, the SIM International missionary kidnapped in Niamey on October 21, 2025, was…
2026-08-14 · 5 MIN READI want to start with where the minute comes from. The annual cost of running the American consulate in Medan, Indonesia — two American diplomats, an island of more than sixty million people, one of the busiest shipping lanes on earth —…
2026-08-13 · 6 MIN READTrump is stealing money from your kids and handing it to rich people overseas. He told America he was going to stop wasting taxpayer money abroad, so he shut down USAID and put most of its staff on indefinite leave and called it America…
2026-08-12 · 5 MIN READRussia and North Korea are sending soldiers to die for battlefield lessons. That is the human mechanism beneath this partnership. Governments trade troops, missiles, and ammunition for experience. The soldiers absorb the danger. Their…
2026-08-11 · 4 MIN READThe Trump administration is deporting the families of soldiers who serve this country. More than sixty lawmakers opened an investigation this week into whether the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security are coordinating to deport…
2026-08-10 · 5 MIN READThe United States abandoned 7,359 Korean War families for 76 years. Rick Downes was three years old when his father disappeared over North Korea. Donna Knox was born six weeks later. Their father, Air Force 2nd Lt. Harold W. Downes Jr.,…
2026-08-09 · 4 MIN READTrump and Kushner are building a military base in Gaza and calling it reconstruction. The Board of Peace, set up by the president in January to oversee rebuilding the strip, has issued its first construction award, though a board official…
2026-08-06 · 4 MIN READTrump and Rubio are dismantling American diplomacy and handing China the field. A consulate is not a polished storefront for diplomats. It is a working office where trade gets handled, visas get processed, local officials get known, and…
2026-08-05 · 4 MIN READSouth Korea's government is killing its EV industry while Chinese cars take the market. The damage starts with the people who make the parts. A battery plant can receive support while the finished vehicle using that battery loses support.…
2026-08-05 · 4 MIN READSouth Korea’s government is taxing its electric-vehicle industry into retreat. The government excluded finished electric vehicles from a new domestic production tax credit while phasing out consumer tax exemptions for electric and…
2026-08-04 · 3 MIN READPeople carried Richard Bong’s wingtip home one careful step at a time. The six-foot piece of aluminum came from Marge, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning flown by Bong, a Wisconsin pilot credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft during the…
2026-08-04 · 4 MIN READThe Trump administration is killing people in Iran and calling it a negotiation. When that does not work, it blames the other side for being unreasonable. Six months into a war the administration told us would be quick and clean, the…
2026-07-31 · 4 MIN READTrump and Netanyahu are selling a Gaza peace plan that does not exist outside of a press release. President Trump announced Thursday that Hamas has agreed to disarm and Israel will withdraw its forces under a phased arrangement. Yesterday…
2026-07-31 · 5 MIN READThe American military forced Korean civilians into bomb shelters on Thursday afternoon because it could not be bothered to tell the border guards a U.S. drone was coming. That is what happened near Cheorwon, a small city in Gangwon…
2026-07-31 · 4 MIN READNow, I'm just a simple man from Redemption Springs, Georgia, but I figure if I ran my shop the way the U.S. military ran a training exercise on the Korean Peninsula last Thursday, I would not have customers for long. A U.S. drone was…
2026-07-30 · 3 MIN READTrump and Hegseth are killing Iranian civilians and calling it retaliation. Last night's heavy strikes on Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets inside Iran killed three members of a family on Qeshm island — a father, a mother, and…
2026-07-30 · 6 MIN READNow, I'm just a simple man, but… when a White House that sent CENTCOM's Fifth Fleet into the Arabian Sea and authorized daily strikes against Iranian proxies tells you to watch the oil futures, you should watch the oil futures. They are…
2026-07-28 · 5 MIN READWestern governments spent thirty years hollowing out the war factories that defended them. The United States has one propellant factory. It was built before the Normandy landings, and no new one has been built since 1971. Europe has one…
2026-07-28 · 9 MIN READBoth parties, across six administrations, spent thirty-five years closing the factories that make the ammunition, and called it a peace dividend. The United States has one propellant factory left. It is a World War II-era plant in southern…
2026-07-27 · 6 MIN READTrump is waging economic war on Canada and calling it trade policy. Now, I’m just a simple man, but when a nation’s largest trading partner holds a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a bridge that took years to build and tells the Americans to…
2026-07-27 · 4 MIN READTrump promised peace. He delivered a war entering its sixth month, and the bill is landing on your kitchen table. Five months of strikes against Iran have cost nearly $40 billion. The Pentagon is coming back to Congress for another $67…
2026-07-27 · 5 MIN READXi freed one pastor and kept the boot on every family that prays. That is what happened on July 3, when Chinese authorities let Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri out of a detention center in southern China and put him on a plane to Los Angeles.…
2026-07-24 · 4 MIN READXi Jinping is trading human beings for diplomatic leverage and pocketing the receipts. The pastor is Ezra Jin Mingri, 57, and the publisher is Jimmy Lai, 77. One ate an In-N-Out hamburger in Los Angeles with his family the night before…
2026-07-23 · 8 MIN READThe Trump administration is killing American soldiers in an undeclared war against Iran. CENTCOM announced early Thursday that U.S. forces had conducted a twelfth consecutive night of strikes against Iranian military and maritime targets.…
2026-07-23 · 4 MIN READTrump is squeezing Canadian workers, and Carney gave away their leverage. Mark Carney spent sixteen months making concession after concession to Washington. He killed the digital-services tax that would have captured revenue from American…
2026-07-23 · 5 MIN READPeru is licensing the destruction of its own rainforest, and the Andean Court of Justice has finally been asked to rule on whether that violates the country's obligations under the trade bloc it belongs to. The case, admitted this week by…
2026-07-23 · 4 MIN READPeru's government built a formalization program that gives illegal miners legal cover, and it works. That is the plain substance behind the case the Andean Court of Justice has now admitted, the first time the regional trade bloc's…
2026-07-22 · 4 MIN READTrump launched a war in Iran in February. Four soldiers died in it. Tomorrow he will attend their dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base. Two Army soldiers killed in Iranian missile and drone strikes on a Jordanian base will be…
2026-07-22 · 5 MIN READThe government built this fight and called the veteran an extremist. Andrew Arrabaca, 43, served in the regular Army from 2001 to 2004 and the New York National Guard from 2004 to 2005. He left as a specialist. He never deployed. He went…
2026-07-21 · 5 MIN READThe country that failed Andrew Arrabaca now calls him an extremist. Andrew Arrabaca entered the Army in 2001. He was part of the post-9/11 cohort — the generation that served when the country was at war. He spent three years in the regular…
2026-07-20 · 6 MIN READTrump and Rubio are engineering a Lebanese civil war and calling it disarmament. Here is the plan, stripped of the language Washington wraps around it: train Lebanese soldiers to fight Hezbollah. Hand them off from the Israeli troops…
2026-07-20 · 5 MIN READCorporate America has spent forty years shifting the risk of retirement from the boardroom to the breakroom. A news story marveling over an employer that actually puts money into its workers' 401(k) accounts without requiring them to match…
2026-07-19 · 5 MIN READThe CIA and two White Houses traded America's AI crown jewels to the Emirates for a $500 million crypto payday. The operative sent to spy on it ended up brokering it. Now, I'm just a simple man who turns wrenches for a living, but if that…
2026-07-19 · 4 MIN READA police operation deploys officers trained for the beat they work, accountable to the community they patrol. An armed occupation puts thousands of troops from a dozen states on the streets of the nation's capital, armed and aimless, with…
2026-07-18 · 6 MIN READNow, I'm just a simple man, but the arithmetic here is plain enough. In 2025, the Trump administration shut down the United States Agency for International Development. Elon Musk, as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, said he…
2026-07-17 · 5 MIN READPete Hegseth is screening soldiers for testosterone while their communities eat cuts. The defense secretary announced Wednesday that the Department of Defense will test every soldier over thirty for testosterone deficiency. Annual health…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READIsrael is occupying southern Lebanon and calling it a security buffer. Families can't go home. Workers can't get back to their shops. Villages sit empty because a U.S.-brokered "process" has no timetable and no end date. Now, I'm just a…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READThe Pentagon rehearsed a permanent war to justify permanent contracts. The Combined Joint Sustainment Training that kicked off this week in Pohang and Hongcheon fielded 4,400 troops, 600 pieces of equipment, naval vessels, aircraft, and…
2026-07-15 · 3 MIN READTrump is occupying the nation's capital with armed troops the city's elected government didn't ask for, didn't approve, and doesn't want. That is what is happening. The rest is performance. Nearly five thousand National Guard troops from…
2026-07-15 · 5 MIN READTrump is bombing Iranian cities and charging the world to ship oil. Third consecutive night. Six cities. Bushehr, Chabahar, Jask, Konarak, Abu Musa, Bandar Abbas. Five-hour bombardment on Monday. U.S. Central Command says the strikes are…
2026-07-14 · 5 MIN READThe Air Force One story tells you everything you need to know about what this taskforce is actually for. The New York Times reported that the new Qatari-gifted aircraft lacked the advanced defensive countermeasures of the old plane,…
2026-07-13 · 6 MIN READThe United States kidnapped a Sinaloa cartel boss in Mexico and lied to its president. A woman brought a truck in last week for brakes. She runs a cleaning service over in Dalton, employs six women, sends money home to her mother in…
2026-07-13 · 7 MIN READMy friend Ray welds airframe sections at the BAE plant in Warton. He has been there twenty-three years. Three weeks ago he showed me a picture on his phone of his daughter, who has just turned seventeen and wants to go to nursing school,…
2026-07-07 · 5 MIN READRaytheon is selling the 5% NATO deal back to Europe and calling it burden-sharing. I want to walk through this the way I walk a customer through an estimate, because that is the only way I know how to think about a deal. The announcement…
2026-07-07 · 9 MIN READThe Trump administration is breaking the Western alliance and calling it burden-sharing. I want to tell you what that costs. Not in NATO budgets or geopolitical analysis — in the life of the family down the road from my shop. A mother…
2026-07-06 · 4 MIN READThe Trump State Department is broadcasting hostile-state propaganda against a NATO ally. Sarah Rogers, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, a desk created in 1999 to build institutional bridges, now used to burn them, stood in…
2026-06-26 · 7 MIN READThe Army is leasing sovereign land to private mining companies to process toxic minerals on base, bypassing the environmental oversight the rest of us live under. The Army has signed long-term leases with Titan Mining, EnergyX, Ioneer, and…
2026-06-25 · 5 MIN READPentagon blacklisted another round of Chinese tech firms this week, adding Alibaba, Baidu, and others to its list of companies with alleged Chinese military ties. Beijing fired back within hours: the commerce ministry placed ten U.S.…
2026-06-22 · 5 MIN READTrump and Hegseth are killing people on boats and calling it drug interdiction. The United States military attacked a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing three men. The Pentagon says they were narcoterrorists. It is…
2026-06-19 · 5 MIN READJD Vance went on “The View” Tuesday to sell a book. He came to promote “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” and when the panel pulled him into the Iran war he tried to steer the conversation back. “I’m here to sell books,” he said.…
2026-06-17 · 3 MIN READThe United States is starving North Korean civilians to death in the name of denuclearization. This past Friday, officials from Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo gathered in Tokyo for a routine trilateral meeting on North Korean affairs. They…
2026-06-13 · 4 MIN READChina kidnaps an American journalist and calls it national security. Min Zin's name didn't make the communiqué from the Trump-Xi summit last month. He is a Burmese-born U.S. citizen who fled one junta only to be swallowed by another…
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READStarmer and the Treasury are starving British troops while the geopolitical map fractures. John Healey just resigned as defence secretary, handing back the keys because he could no longer sign off on the arithmetic that British forces will…
2026-06-11 · 4 MIN READThe United States is killing Indian sailors and calling it a blockade. On Wednesday night, a U.S. aircraft fired precision munitions into the engine room of the Palau-flagged oil tanker M/T Settebello in the Gulf of Oman after the vessel,…
2026-06-11 · 4 MIN READTrump has destroyed the American alliance system. Not battered it, not strained it — demolished it in the operating theater where it matters most: the minds of the Europeans we used to call allies. A new European Council on Foreign…
2026-06-10 · 5 MIN READTrump and Putin are killing people and calling it strategy. The Wall Street Journal, surveying the wreckage of two great-power wars, concludes that the strong are learning they have limits. What the piece actually documents is something…
2026-06-10 · 6 MIN READTrump is killing people in the Persian Gulf and calling it a peace deal. The president stood at JFK airport on Monday night after watching the NBA Finals and told reporters that an Apache attack helicopter had crashed near the Strait of…
2026-06-09 · 6 MIN READPentagon officials are branding civilian companies as military adversaries to secure permanent defense funding. The Section 1260H registry, a Pentagon tracking list that formally marks foreign commercial entities as defense contributors,…
2026-06-09 · 4 MIN READGermany killed Europe's joint stealth fighter yesterday over a corporate turf war. Airbus and Dassault let it die. The Future Combat Air System was the only serious attempt by European nations to design and build a modern fighter together.…
2026-06-08 · 6 MIN READMoraff, Fan, and Katz did not stumble on a candidate. They selected him. They showed up at his house before dawn because the machine runs on a simple formula: find a combat veteran with a compelling biography, package him as an authentic…
2026-06-07 · 6 MIN READIsrael is murdering Lebanese army officers to scuttle the ceasefire it just agreed to. The airstrike that killed a brigadier general, a captain, and another soldier on a road near Nabatiyeh on Saturday was not an accident, not a tragic…
2026-06-06 · 6 MIN READTrump is committing war crimes in the Persian Gulf and calling it a blockade. On Friday, U.S. forces shot down four Iranian drones headed for the Strait, then struck coastal radar sites; Iran answered with seven ballistic missiles. That…
2026-06-06 · 7 MIN READThe transnational brokerage network that keeps Putin's war-gods airborne in Western-built Bombardiers and Gulfstreams is not a loophole. It is the system functioning precisely as designed. European aircraft managers acquire secondhand jets…
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