Foundational Weapons For A Modern War
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
A little over a year ago, I left my job of twenty years to write full time. My first book Beyond the Golden Hour was a success in many ways, but most especially in that it allowed me to begin a conversation with veterans from a variety of services. I was moved
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If you’ve ever flown into Alaska, the first thing you notice as you peer out the airplane windows are the mountains, row upon endless row of snow-peaked ruggedness. The best word to describe them is a word often overused to describe lesser things: majestic. Majestic should be reserved for the sort of