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…
Praying Violently: Using The Imprecatory Psalms in Spiritual Warfare
Praying Violently: Using The Imprecatory Psalms in Spiritual Warfare by Donavon L Riley In the spiritual battles that we engage in against the evil one, his angels, and his allies,…
The Virtue of Temperance: Insights from Stoicism and Bushido
The Virtue of Temperance: Insights from Stoicism and Bushido by Donavon L Riley In a world often characterized by excess and indulgence, the virtues of temperance and self-control stand as…
Why You Should Write Poetry
Why You Should Write Poetry By Donavon L Riley In the often harsh, unforgiving day to day experiences of our existence, life-altering, often devastating events become the jagged stones that…
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…
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Praying Down Evil: The Christian’s Battle Cry
Praying Down Evil: The Christian’s Battle Cry By Donavon L Riley In the relentless battle-space of spiritual warfare, where the fires of sin and temptation constantly threaten to burn down…
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…
Breaking Free from Dependencies: Insights from Stoicism and Bushido
Breaking Free from Dependencies: Insights from Stoicism and Bushido By Donavon L Riley In the intricate and often bewildering landscape of human existence, dependencies and addictions can swiftly evolve from…