SOE Heroines: Female Spies Who Fought for the Liberation of France
Violette Szabo SOE agent memorial in front of Lambeth Palace. Photo: camerawalker. CC BY 3.0 DEED. Cropped Image. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by…
Napalm in the Vietnam War
My father told me that he once raced the family car, with my siblings and me to the beach at Vung Tau while the American military laid down some napalm…
Rogers’ Rangers: Leading the Way
Cropped painting of Rogers Rangers, “To Range the Woods”, New York, 1760. US Army Center for Military History Army Artist Team XXII. Rogers’ Rangers was a famous unit of colonial…
Aaron Bank: Father of the Green Berets
Aaron Bank standing alongside German defectors recruited for Operation Iron Cross in WW2. Bank is at left in the first rank Photo: US Army. De Oppresso Liber” — Motto of…
The Legacy of Antonin Scalia and the Intelligence Community
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia (2013). Photo: US Supreme Court Collection. Antonin Scalia, the late Supreme Court justice who died in 2016, was known for his originalist interpretation of the Constitution…
Bruce Dowding: The Aussie Hero of the French Resistance
An American officer and a French partisan in 1944. Photo: National Archives. “Throughout France, the Resistance had been of inestimable value in the campaign. Without their great assistance, the liberation…
Operation JAWBREAKER: How the CIA Laid the Groundwork for the War on Terror
Northern Alliance troops under General Dostum’s command in Mazar-e Sharif, December 2001. Photo SSGT Cecilo Ricardo, US Air Force Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but…
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Choose Life. Choose Sobriety. Choose Hope.
Choose Life. Choose Sobriety. Choose Hope. by Donavon L Riley The legacy of Vietnam was not confined to that country, but seeped into our home, leaving its indelible mark on…
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The Path of a Righteous Man: Embracing Faith & Virtue in a Decaying World
The Path of a Righteous Man: Embracing Faith & Virtue in a Decaying World by Donavon L Riley In a world encircled in the grip of godlessness and hedonistic decay,…
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Armoring Up: Spiritual Warfare in A Depraved Society
Look around, and what do we see? A world drowning in its own iniquities, clinging for safety and security to the words of politicians, money-gobbling corporations, and pharmaceutical giants who’s…