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Book of the Day: D-Day: Time Patrol
‘Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.’ Winston
November 30, 2022
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‘Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.’ Winston
This Danish Movie from 2021 was titled in its home country as The Shadow In My Eye. It is a devastating movie about a real
I think of lost team-mates on this solemn day. Two in particular: Master Sergeant David Boltz and Chief Warrant Officer James O’Callaghan. Great soldiers, great
Today we remember fallen comrades. I think of two team-mates, Jim and Dave, who were KIA on deployments but didn’t know it until years later
It was one of the classics of the Cold War. The strange thing is, that the scenario is just as likely now. There are more
Today is the 144th Anniversary of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, or as the winners call it, the Battle of the Greasy Grass.
As I write this, the class of 2020 is marching single-file, social distanced, onto the Plain at West Point where their chairs are set far
Numbers are spiking in 21 states—reported numbers, which in many of those states is far below the real numbers. Most of the states are red
It was a good day, even while many, including my father, were still fighting in the Pacific Theater. Many historians have traced the origins of
Someone asked me if I was incensed when I saw that Trump had ordered the Academy to hold graduation so he could speak. Actually, I
That’s the way I pitched Nightstalkers. First three books only .99 all of February. When I was flying around with my team in black helicopters,
First interesting piece of trivia: William Tecumseh Sherman was the first president of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, which eventually became
And it wasn’t the Caine. I went to the Military Academy, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1802. Although Jefferson tended to be anti-military, he accepted
Most disasters require 7 things to go wrong; my rule of 7. Whether it be a plane crash or a military disaster. Pearl Harbor was
It began as nothing more than a routine training flight. At 2:10 p.m. on December 5, 1945, five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers took off from
This past week when my grandsons were visiting we went to the Worlds Fair Park here in Knoxville. Not far from the infamous Sunsphere, is
What is the unit that polices the ranks of elite, covert units? Stops operatives who are too dangerous for the police and, more importantly, know
For today, 10/21, only, this book is free on Kindle. I took what we did in Special Operations and built templates that anyone can use
We got our code word to conduct our war time assigned mission? We ran lots of training exercises in Special Forces. I don’t believe we
Many people consider the two the same, but I don’t. One is inward oriented, the other outward. At West Point we had to memorize quite
I recently saw this question posed on Quora and it made me think. Let me start by answering with my opinion, which is NO. But
Saw this question on Quora and it made me think. I went into Beast Barracks at West Point when I was seventeen and clueless. Then
I just had an interview features in the Big Thrill, the magazine for the International Thriller Writers. Click on the image below for the complete
Beginning today in 1948, the Berlin Airlift is a unique moment in history. When victors went to extraordinary lengths to extend a lifeline to a
Ah, when men were men and the sheep ran scared! Esquire ran a “10 Manliest War Movies” which I thought was a bit lacking; but
With over two million copies sold, the Green Beret series was my first and closest to me. I wrote six initially featuring Dave Riley, starting
I was giving a keynote at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference several years ago and I mentioned this book and movie and got blank stares.