I received the commentary below from the son of a WW II Marine who was killed in action on Iwo Jima and who was awarded a Purple Heart and Navy Cross posthumously. He and I exchange emails on topics of interest—most often related to the military, social issues, politics, and …
In 1966, the year I returned from almost 4 years of active service with the U.S. Army Security Agency in West Germany, a new movie was released called “The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming.” Directed by Norman Jewison, the film centers on a Soviet submarine, the “Sprut,” that …
Dear Reader, Welcome back to our Saturday serialization of The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles (Book #2 in the Finding Billy Battles Trilogy). ForeignCorrespondent is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Book #2 takes Billy’s story to a …
It’s not easy watching the country I grew up in and served as a soldier doing its level best to self-destruct. But that is what is happening today as socialists and communists scamper like cockroaches from their dreary radical crevices into the bright electoral light of our 250-year-old constitutional republic. …
Dear Reader: Welcome back to our complimentary Saturday serialization of The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles (Book #2 in the Finding Billy Battles Trilogy). Book #2 takes Billy’s story to an even larger global stage. It leaves the violence of late 19th-century Kansas behind as Billy is thrust into the …
Dear Reader, Beginning in May 2025, many of you joined me on a weekly journey through the early, flinty life of William Fitzroy Raglan Battles in Book #1 of my trilogy. The response to Billy’s episodic memoirs was incredibly rewarding, and I’ve frequently been asked what happens next to the …
It’s time to evaluate how New York City’s first communist mayor is performing his job as commissar of the Big Apple’s five boroughs. If I were grading Zoran Mamdani’s first six and a half months in office, I would give him a D-minus. I cannot honestly say he has failed …
Dear Reader, Beginning in May 2025, many of you joined me on a weekly journey through the early, flinty life of William Fitzroy Raglan Battles in Book #1 of my trilogy. The response to Billy’s episodic memoirs was incredibly rewarding, and I’ve frequently been asked what happens next to the …
In its decision to reject President Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship by ruling that he does not have the power to unilaterally overturn the longstanding principle that guarantees citizenship to all children born in the United States, the Supreme Court is sanctioning the nation’s path to self-annihilation. How might …
In the 1960s, when I joined the U.S. Army, the communists that we opposed were in places like North Korea, China, the Soviet Union, Cuba, and, of course, Vietnam. That is no longer the case. Today, the communists we were once trained to kill are here within our borders, not …