Foundational Weapons For A Modern War
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
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
There is a sticky film covering just about everything outside our house this summer. Run your hand along the metal railing of our front steps, and you’ll immediately wish you hadn’t. Lean up against one of the vehicles and you’ll feel the stickiness on your elbows. Every morning when you climb behind
Two weeks ago I was laying on the floor of my son’s room while reading him a bedtime story. We’d had wildfires all week, and the smoke outside was so thick it eliminated the horizon and even distorted our view of nearby trees. We had every window closed and the inside temperature