An Army Marches on its Lactation
By Ray Starmann Today, my former boss, a retired Army Intelligence officer sent me a copy of a memorandum...
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“Nothing to do with Islam” – Liberals just don’t get it
By Ray Starmann Last week’s shooting of a Philadelphia police officer by a crazed gunman, acting in the name...
The US Marines, KIA
By Ray Starmann It seems like it’s something new every day now. It seems like it’s something worse every...
Angela Merkel – Villain of the Year
By Ray Starmann “And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ,...
What do the Presidential Candidates really think of Obama?
By Ray Starmann Sanders – If you think Obama is left wing, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Wait until...
US Defense Watch Editor in Chief on the Todd Herman Show
Ray Starmann joined Todd Herman yesterday for an update on special training and treatment for female Ranger candidates.
Inside the ISIS workshop of death
By Steve Quayle and the Daily Mail Inside the jihadi workshop of death: How ISIS is developing driver-free vehicles...
Do you know the way to Moscow? – The Bernie Sanders Phenomenon
By Ray Starmann Do you know the way to San Jose I’ve been away so long I may go...
What do the world’s leaders really think of Obama?
By Ray Starmann Inside the minds of the world’s leaders; friendly, enemy and neutral… Putin – What this guy’s...
US Defense Watch Editor in Chief on the Todd Herman Show
By Ray Starmann I will be on the Todd Herman Show, KTTH, AM 770, Conservative Talk Radio in Seattle;...
Double Standards for Female Rangers
By Ray Starmann US Defense Watch has obtained new information concerning special training for female soldiers in preparation for...
The End of the Beginning – The Road to the White House
By Ray Starmann After the British victory at the Battle of the Second El Alamein in November of 1942,...
2016 – The Year of the Jackals
By Ray Starmann 2016 will be the Year of the Jackals… This is the year in which Obama’s foreign...
The Obama Diaries – A Year in Review
By Ray Starmann What if… President Obama had a diary? December 31, 2015 Dear Diary, It’s been quite a...
The State Department Follies
By Ray Starmann Yesterday, the State Department unveiled its greatest successes of 2015. The list of so-called “pivotal foreign...
The World According to Jeb
By Ray Starmann Zzz… The latest election poll has Jeb Bush running at a mere 3%, down from his...
Saving Jimmy Webb
By Ray Starmann What the heck is Jimmy Webb doing in the Democrat Party? As I said before in...
The Germans Lock and Load
By Soeren Kern and the Gatestone Institute The Germans, facing an influx of more than one million asylum seekers...
Bolsheviks vs. Delusional Crooks – Welcome to the Democrat Debate
By Ray Starmann Well, the Dems had another debate last night, if you can call it a debate. It...
The Future Trump – Putin Bromance
By Ray Starmann Donald Trump was on fire this week, stating that he would kill families of terrorists, a...
Is it safe?
By Ray Starmann Is it safe? Americans seem to be asking that question a lot these days. One is...
Where have you gone Ronald Reagan? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you…
By Ray Starmann President Reagan passed away on June 5, 2004. The Gipper has been gone for over a...
IS-MOSIS – The spread of ISIS across the globe
By Ray Starmann ISIS seems to be anywhere and everywhere these days. The organization of evil is spreading across...
OPERATION BOLO – Obama’s War on ISIS
By Ray Starmann BOLO – In the US military, a term denoting a screw up, a failure; i.e. “He...
Hey old lady where you going to?…US Army Ranger School
By Ray Starmann “Saw an old lady walking down the street She had a ruck on her back and...
The Obama Diaries – November 13, 2015 – December 12, 2015
By Ray Starmann If President Obama had a diary, the entries from the last few weeks might look something...
Honesty…is such a lonely word
By Ray Starmann Everyone in the White House and Pentagon is so untrue… The old Billy Joel hit from...
We Few, We Happy Few – The Band of Brothers Bonding is no Myth
By Ray Starmann One of Shakespeare’s most famous passages comes from actual history and the words of England’s King...
Weekend at BUD/S
By Ray Starmann It’s been a week since Ash Carter made his earth-shattering announcement authorizing women to serve in...
America’s Number One National Security Threat – The Democratic Party
By Ray Starmann The Democrats never seem to learn anything about national security. They view the world they want...
US Defense Watch Editor on the Todd Herman Show, KTTH, AM 770
Last Friday, I was on the Todd Herman Show in Seattle to discuss the ongoing Ranger School records scandal...
America’s New Day of Infamy
By Ray Starmann Seventy-four years ago, naval air forces of Japan attacked the US Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii....
They’re here!
By Ray Starmann The San Bernardino shootings were the worst domestic terror attack since 9-11 on US soil. The...
The Greatest Lie Ever Told – Female Rangers
By Ray Starmann Yesterday, Ash Carter jumped the shark and announced that women would now be authorized to serve...
It’s time for President Obama to face reality
By Ray Starmann What’s it going to take for President Obama to face reality? Yesterday, only hours after the...
Was it ISIS?
By Ray Starmann Today, America was struck by another mass shooting. But, this one was different. At least two...
The tiny pin pricks of war
By Ray Starmann Today, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced that 200 special operations troops are heading to Iraq....
The Obama Zone
By Ray Starmann You’re traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of narcissism and meekness, but of...
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,...
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...
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....
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 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,...
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 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 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,...
Does the Pentagon know that assumptions can be deadly?
By Ray Starmann There’s an old military maxim, which says, “Assumptions are the mother of all —-ups.” That ancient...
Runaway blimps
By Ray Starmann My interest in blimps really began in the mid-1970’s, when as a kid I listened to...
The Ranger School records cover up continues
By Ray Starmann The Ranger School records story refuses to die, as the Army continues to obstruct Congressman Steve...
The world is playing rope a dope with Obama
By Ray Starmann Obama is on the ropes, trying to bob and weave, but failing miserably as a litany...
Will the Germans fight for their country?
By Ray Starmann In Germany the migrant crisis continues unabated. The German population is growing more intolerant of the...
The Marines’ last stand
By Ray Starmann Leave it to the Marines to make the US military’s last stand. It’s the last stand...
The mad, mad, mad mind of Angela Merkel
By Ray Starmann The European migrant crisis continues to snowball at a rapid rate. In the center mass of...
Saving the US Army
By Ray Starmann The US Army is sick; sick in body, mind and spirit. No matter how many times...
What kind of US Army is this?
By Ray Starmann The Army is in serious trouble. Besieged with a myriad of readiness and morale issues, it...
It’s time to take off the gloves and deal a fatal blow to ISIS
By Ray Starmann For the last two years, the Islamic State, better known as ISIS or ISIL, has conquered...
Three things to note from the Delta Force raid in Iraq
By Ray Starmann There are several things to note concerning the Delta Force raid on the ISIS prison in...