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• Rebellion is Born when Rulers Forget They Are Meant to Serve June 8, 2026
  History is full of uprisings, revolutions, and rebellions—and almost all of them share the same root cause: rulers who forget their duty is to serve the people, not themselves. When I was in graduate school, one of the things we studied was Ted Robert Gurr’s seminal work, Why Men Rebel. It was the first time […]
  Charles Faint
• The Veteran Transition Landscape Is Changing. Here’s What That Means, and Where It’s Going Next. June 8, 2026
  By Reggie Mills, Meagan Thrift, Alex Genovese, and Adrianne Huls For years, the national conversation about veteran transition focused on one question: How do we help people leave the military? Today, the question needs to be different. Increasingly, the men and women who serve our nation are asking something more important, and much deeper: How […]
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• I Want Him to Keep It June 8, 2026
  Friday was the May festival at Tamarack Waldorf School. It was a good day for it, sunny and warm. In the past, seeing as we live in Wisconsin, there have been May celebrations at the school when the weather was rainy, windy, and cold. That sort of thing makes the gatherings less than festive. However, […]
  Frank Pauc
• Questions Vets May Wonder About After War June 7, 2026
  By 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 […]
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• The Case for the A-10C June 7, 2026
  By 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 […]
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