The Obama Zone
By Ray Starmann You’re traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of narcissism and meekness, but of...
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Putin…Our Once and Future Ally
By Ray Starmann We are at war, but life goes on in the US as if nothing is different....
All Glory is Fleeting – The Demise of the Warrior Ethos
By Ray Starmann The current situation in the world can only be described as precarious. ISIS and radical jihadis...
We were just following orders – The Joint Chiefs and the War with ISIS
By Ray Starmann Across the world, the War with ISIS is exploding; in Paris, Brussels, in the Middle East...
Rebels without a Cause – The Ungrateful Generation
By Ray Starmann In the last two weeks, the news has been inundated with stories concerning the Paris attacks,...
The Veteran’s Perspective – Valor Cannot Be Stolen
By Elmer Ellsworth and the Veteran’s Perspective We have been asked to provide the Veteran’s Perspective on the topic...
Peace for our time, President Obama?
By Ray Starmann On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain landed at Heston Aerodrome in England and...
Something is rotten at Fort Benning
By Ray Starmann US Defense Watch and other media outlets have been covering the Ranger School records story since...
Two bombs a day, doesn’t keep ISIS away
By Ray Starmann The news on ISIS this week has been fluid and multi-dimensional. ISIS has attacked in Paris...
Wars can’t be won by political correctness
By Ray Starmann It seems that the War with ISIS entered warp speed this week. From the attacks in...
GI Joe RIP – 1775 – 2015
By Ray Starmann Now, that you’re gone Joe, I just wanted to say thanks for everything you’ve done for...
Wanted: An American Churchill
By Ray Starmann ISIS is on a rampage of terror across the globe. They currently control an area the...
Operation Inherent Insanity – Obama’s Syrian Refugee Plan
By Ray Starmann ISIS has been busy in the last 24 hours. They diverted two Air France planes over...
The Veteran’s Perspective – Attacks in Paris Part II – What to do?
By Elmer Ellsworth and the Veteran’s Perspective As promised, today’s post is the Veterans’ Perspective on some broader thoughts...
Obama’s Phony War against ISIS
By Ray Starmann In the last two weeks, ISIS has blown a Russian airliner out of the sky over...
President Obama is AWOL
By Ray Starmann As Paris burns, Obama teeters on the edge of reality. As Paris burns, Obama worries about...
World War III – The free world vs. radical Islam
By Ray Starmann ISIS and radical Islam have declared war on anyone who believes in the cause of freedom....
The Veteran’s Perspective – On the Attacks in Paris
By Elmer Ellsworth and the Veteran’s Perspective A few words about the cowardly attacks in Paris …. As Veterans,...
Does the West have the will to fight ISIS?
By Ray Starmann There are a lot of things we don’t yet about the Paris attacks. We do know...
Operation Stonewall Jackson – Taking the fight to ISIS
By Ray Starmann Paris is under a curfew for the first time since 1944. Think about that. Not since...
The Veteran’s Perspective – What Does it Mean to Fight For Something?
By Elmer Ellsworth and the Veteran’s Perspective Today, I would like to share an experience that is common amongst...
The new Gulag Archipelago on our college campuses
By Ray Starmann The following article is not the standard USDW post concerning a defense issue. Nevertheless, I feel...
Land of the Lost – The Obama Administration vs. ISIS
By Ray Starmann After a year and a half of a failed, worthless, half-hearted air campaign and sporadic, dithering,...
The Desperate Hours – The Demise of the 106th Infantry Division during the opening, desperate hours of the Battle of the Bulge
By Ray Starmann Seventy-one years have passed since the Battle of the Bulge was fought. Yet, the truth about...
Their Name Liveth For Evermore
By Ray Starmann “Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.” Ecclesiasticus 44:14 They are...
The Veteran’s Perspective – Destroying the Myth of PTSD
By Elmer Ellsworth and the Veteran’s Perspective First, we must express our sincere gratitude and respect for all those...
The Veteran’s Perspective – Project Greenlight II – Supporting Veteran Employment
By Elmer Ellsworth and the Veteran’s Perspective We received considerable feedback on our article last week about Walmart’s Project...
Can the US Army win the next war?
By Morris Schaffer Word is starting to seep out, like water slowly exiting a crack in a dam that...
The solitary world of a vet
By Ray Starmann As Veterans’ Day approaches, it is important for those who have never served to take a...
Tell that to the Marines!
By Ray Starmann Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus doesn’t want to hear the truth. He doesn’t want to...
The Greatest Generation – Why America needs them more than ever
By Ray Starmann They were called Bob, Harry, Red, Leo, Dick and Mary. They trudged through the jungle on...
The Kool Aid Kings and Queens of the Pentagon
By Ray Starmann It seems nearly every day that the Pentagon is talking to the American people in double,...
Are “Support the troops” and “Thank you for your service” just empty phrases?
By Ray Starmann Since 9-11, and the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there has been an...
The Veteran’s Perspective – Election Day Snub
By Elmer Ellsworth Today is Election Day – to many it is just another day. But to Veterans it...
Where oh where have the Muslim migrants gone?
By Morris Schaffer Chaos continues to unfold in Germany as tens of thousands of undocumented Muslim migrants have reportedly...
The Veterans’ Perspective – Does Trump’s Plan to Fix the VA Trump the Existing VA Plan?
By Elmer Ellsworth Amongst the feedback from our article last week on Walmart’s Project Greenlight, we were asked if...
The SEALs must return to the shadows
By Ray Starmann The Navy SEALs have been everywhere in the media in the last few years: in films,...
The AWOL upper class
By Ray Starmann I had the rare privilege to grow up in a suburb of stately lawns, with large,...