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What We Owe the Next Generation
There is a kind of conversation that has gone out of fashion in this country, and we are paying for its absence. It is the conversation older people used to [...]
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- Questions Vets May Wonder About After War June 7, 2026By Britta Reque-Dragicevic This first appeared in Britta’s blog, “Life After War” and is republished with the author’s permission. ___________________ Trevor sat down in the lunchroom with his colleagues. He’d been back at his civilian job for the last three months. Things were okay. Not great, but okay. It’d taken a while to get used […]Special Guest
- The Case for the A-10C June 7, 2026By Ivan F. Ingraham Editor’s Note: We’re republishing this piece because the A-10 debate is not over. The Air Force has slowed its retirement plan and extended some Warthog squadrons into 2030, but the service is still moving toward replacing the aircraft and the close air support culture built around it. Recent events have only […]Special Guest
- D-Day 2026 and the Patriotic Screensaver Industrial Complex June 6, 2026Today America will pause for the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, which means we’ll spend eight minutes pretending to understand sacrifice before returning to our sacred national hobbies of arguing with strangers, buying tactical cup holders, and treating history like a discontinued cable package. D-Day was June 6, 1944, when Allied forces landed on Normandy and […]Tammy Pondsmith
- One for the Airborne Ranger in the Sky June 6, 2026The name was once conceptual. It was a name from a list, one all but forgotten, from a time beyond anyone’s living memory. The name is beyond anyone’s emotional response and firsthand experience. Choosing a name of recent memory often brought a barrage of harassment. The pain of a name such as those expressed in […]Jake Smith
- Practice Goes Before Belief June 5, 2026“Fake it till you make it.” Most of us have heard the phrase, and most of us have probably lived it in one way or another. But there’s a deeper truth behind that cliché: belief doesn’t always come first. Often, it follows. Practice goes before belief. In the military, this principle is a way of […]Charles Faint
