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Israel Mideast Emergency Landing

Terrorism

October 13, 2026

Entebbe and the Genesis of U.S. National Counterterrorism

Appropriately, several fine articles have remembered this year’s 50th anniversary of the Israeli Defense Force’s successful rescue of more than one...

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U.S. Air Force

April 8, 2026

The 'Moral Imperative' Behind the Rescues in Iran

The writer gratefully acknowledges this powerful, clarifying phrase— moral imperative —as the title employed by noted air power historian, and a...

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U.S. Space Force

May 13, 2025

Disciplined Delusion and the Lohmeier Hearing

For a bit of ancient history, it was four years ago this month when Lt. Col.

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U.S. Space Force

April 9, 2025

The Decade+ Successes of SpaceX and U.S. Space Programs

In recent days, domestic terrorists have engaged in political violence against Elon Musk’s Tesla enterprise: torching cars, vandalizing dealerships,...

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Military Personnel

February 6, 2025

Army Posts, History, and the Recruiting Crisis

Since about 2023 nine U. S.

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US Afghanistan

Pentagon

December 21, 2024

Reducing Senior Officer Billet Bloat Requires Leadership

In December 1944, nearly a week into the Battle of the Bulge, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s utterly professional leadership succeeded – once he...

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Air Force Memorial

U.S. Air Force

November 16, 2024

Recommending Brig. Gen. Schwalier for the Air Force 'Plucking Board'

In the mid-1990s, Brig. Gen.

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Terrorism

October 23, 2024

November 2024: Forty-Five Years of Tehran-Tied Terrorism

On November 4, 1979, Iranian students among other Islamic (Shia) revolutionaries attacked and took over the U. S.

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Military Strategy

September 25, 2024

A Serious Pentagon Must Hold a 'Plucking Board'

On 1 September 1939 – the day Hitler invaded Poland to begin the Second World War – George C. Marshall officially took the reins as chief of staff of...

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Military History

February 28, 2024

Remembering the U.S. Colored Troops at the 1864 Battle of Olustee

This month marks 160 years since a relatively unrecognized, but noteworthy, battle between Union and Confederate forces in which black soldiers...

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