Foundational Weapons For A Modern War
This tale begins on Sunday, November 11th, 1990. My sister, stepbrother, and I sat on the sofa watching the greatest single-game performance by a linebacker in NFL history. Derrick Thomas of the Kansas City Chiefs kept sacking Seattle’s quarterback Dave Krieg as the day progressed. We expected the first sack, also the
It can be argued that the United States has been at war with Islamic jihadists since the mid-1970’s. That ongoing conflict has cost many American lives in a number of countries all over the globe, often including innocent civilians. There is no greater cause for war than to protect the lives of
I have a friend who is a National Guardsman, and we shared small talk at work over the course of many years. One day I asked him if he ever deployed to Iraq, as so many others in my state had. He went on to tell me how he would have been
I recently watched the Ken Burns documentary Vietnam. I went in expecting to see a leftist slant on the history of the Vietnam War and that was pretty much what I got. Ken Burns is a product of his culture and Vietnam is the the pivotal event on which many worldviews were
This is part of an ongoing series on war movies and great lessons we can learn from them. Today we will be taking a look at a scene from what I consider one of the greatest war films ever made: Saving Private Ryan. Setting: The Second World War France, 1944. D-Day +
This is part of an ongoing series on war movies and great lessons we can learn from them. Today, we take a look at a scene from Gettysburg (1993). Setting: American Civil War July 3rd, 1863 After two days of battle near the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, both the Union army (under
I love war movies. Watching war movies has taught me a lot about history, military tactics, politics, sociology; depending on the movie, some of these things were laughably inaccurate, and some were spot-on. But the thing I’ve always been most fascinated by in the war movie genre is not the fighting, rather