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Ed Timperlake
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June 27, 2025
Been there, saw that: the problem of satellite-based battle assessmentsThe 1990 Gulf War demonstrated that “cubicle commandos” and the media do not understand what’s happening on a battlefield.
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April 29, 2025
Fifty years since the fall of Saigon, a Vietnam War refugee approaches the CapitolThe Senate should clear Hung Cao to be undersecretary of the Navy.
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March 21, 2025
Deadly consequences when judges play presidentA D.C. judge wants to force President Trump to declassify information that could make for a candy-store offering to violent criminals.
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January 24, 2025
If this is war, so be itWhen I read about President Trump's war on cartels at the border, all I can think of is George Marshall's warning to President Roosevelt about invasions from the south.
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November 24, 2024
Escalation control: The challenge and opportunity for Trump 2.0Currently, thanks to the lack of leadership from Biden and European nations, Zelenskyy is holding our weapons and controlling the war. Trump must end that.
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October 17, 2024
SpaceX just changed everything for space launch and recoveryElon Musk is making America A-O.K. again.
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August 11, 2024
The media attacking JD Vance need to walk the walkCurrently, they’re talking the talk about military service, despite knowing nothing about it.
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July 17, 2024
The beginning of the end of lawfare—one hopesThe dismissal of the classified documents case may have seriously negative implications for the “get Trump” conspirators.
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June 29, 2024
Please do not shoot at the thermonuclear weapons!When it comes to Ukraine...what on Earth is the Biden administration thinking?
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January 15, 2024
Lloyd Austin and our government’s lack of accountabilityFollowing the Secretary of Defense’s disappearance, the military and Biden administration should be putting jobs on the chopping block…but they’re not.
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January 8, 2024
What would the iconic Forrest Gump drill instructor say about Lloyd Austin?What would a tough-as-nails military man from a fictional yesteryear think about the worst DEI hire in American history?
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December 19, 2023
In The Swamp Of Academia, Cornell’s President Has Taken A Principled StandWe’re very good at catching the many academics who fail in their moral obligations, so a leader who does the right thing deserves to be acknowledged.
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November 28, 2023
Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue: An Israeli all-female tank crew took the fight to the terroristsAn all-female tank crew responded to its tremendous contribution to Israel's war effort with self-effacing humility.
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November 5, 2023
Even President Eisenhower’s visionary brilliance wasn’t enoughIke knew that a day would come when people would forget or deny the Nazi’s evil but he couldn’t have imagined that, even with evidence, antisemitism would rise up again.
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June 24, 2023
US general officers being protected from embarrassment?The Army has launched an information war against U.S. citizens.
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June 13, 2023
Biden, Trump, and the emerging Democrat MAGA movementCould there be MAGA Democrats out there? Look at some of the new figures coming out...
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January 21, 2023
The Agent Orange precedent is helping the military come to terms with the potential health issues created by the COVID vaccine mandateNow all that Veterans' Affairs secretary McDonough has to do is state that there is the potential for adverse health effects on our troops from the mandatory vaccine to structure scientific epidemiological research to help all exposed to the vaccine.
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November 30, 2022
Here are some veterans' oversight issues the new GOP-led House should focus onCongressional oversight committees will have their hands full, but they should be able to reach a bipartisan consensus with Democrats on how to help veterans.
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October 5, 2022
The US Navy is taking Vladimir Putin very seriouslyFacing down the Russian threat of death to all Americans, we all should wish the 2nd Fleet Godspeed.
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September 25, 2022
Regarding Putin and his nuclear threats, think the unthinkable, and prepareVladimir Putin's threat to use nuclear weapons on the West highlights the need for civil defense.
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August 7, 2022
Now the truth begins to emergeWhen the media absconds from its duties, cinema and art fill the void.
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June 6, 2022
Biden administration breaks a sacred trust with America's veteransSadly, the tragically ironic saying about the Department of Veterans Affairs' operations is once again appropriate: "deny, delay, death."
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May 7, 2022
Amazing times: Even the socialists are upset with the Democrat leadershipThe far left is starting to criticize Nancy Pelosi and her statements on Ukraine.
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March 8, 2022
With a nuclear power at war, we must have complete clarity about eventsBecause the risks flowing from misunderstanding what's happening on the ground are so significant, world leaders and news editors must educate themselves.
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January 19, 2022
Rather be 'us' or 'them'?The election is going to come down to one thing for voters: Do we want to be 'us' or 'them.'
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January 14, 2022
The end of unknown COVID fear-mongeringActuarial tables are being created and will tell us a lot.
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December 25, 2021
Merry Christmas, America -- the veterans are comingAmerica is soon facing a great Christmas present. A record number of veterans, from all services, is trying to enter our real revolutionary political process: the 2022 mid-term elections.
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October 18, 2021
There is still time to turn Virginia completely redThe Loudoun County outrages perpetrated by Virginia's ruling Democrats are a potent game-changer in Virginia politics as election time approaches.
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October 14, 2021
The Scheller case: 'Fight On' on several levelsThe generals may win their court-martial against LTC Scheller, but they are sure to lose the hearts and minds of the public.
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October 7, 2021
In Virginia governor's race, all politics is localThe long lines and petty bureaucratic overreach going on at the Virginia DMV might just swinging the race to the GOP.
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September 30, 2021
Across-the-board failure at the highest level of our militaryIt is not often that a point like Lt. Col. Scheller's — that some of the most senior military leaders in charge are found wanting — is so quickly validated.
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September 28, 2021
Marine officer who questioned military leadership's handing of Afghanistan surrender reportedly imprisonedSo far, there is not even a hint of any accountability for the military leadership that handed over vital weapons and facilities, making the Taliban the best-armed terrorists in history. But for a critic, it is the brig.
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September 2, 2021
When it comes to Lt. Col. Scheller, our leadership class is going full SovietIt turns out that, in the modern era, all tyrannical rulers use the same tactics to destroy those who dare criticize them.
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August 31, 2021
When the Devil grabs you by the throatWe have just experienced the greatest political/military defeat in American history. It is a historic watershed moment of presidential ineptitude and piss-poor senior military judgment on a grand scale.
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August 28, 2021
Twenty-five minutes to infamyBiden's late appearance for his press conference about the Kabul bombing created a more dangerous situation than most people realize.
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August 18, 2021
It's time to hold the Intelligence Community to account for its abject failuresIt is now time to employ a major Intelligence Community term of art: we need a Damage Assessment, shining sunlight on the I.C. failure and the willfully blind acceptance of their bad intel by commanders.
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July 31, 2021
The Coming Battle For Taiwan And The Nobel Peace PrizeThose two things may have a connection that greatly benefits China even as it harms Taiwan.
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July 11, 2021
Will Terry McAuliffe turn Virginia red?His ties to the Clinton machine, with all its China dealings, ought to turn military voters in Virginia off.
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June 26, 2021
The Virginia governor's race could predict who takes the White House in 2024This off-year election should be getting people's attention.
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April 27, 2021
Virginia GOP foolishly and inexplicably disenfranchises Orthodox Jewish votersWhat the heck were they thinking?
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February 13, 2021
A lesson in humility and meritocracy, Marine styleInspiring lessons from the retired director of the oldest musical organization of any type in the United States
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January 15, 2021
Who's first in line for the COVID vaccines at the Department of Veterans' Affairs?Veterans or high-level bureaucrats?
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January 11, 2021
The beginning of Democrat WeltschmerzThe Gernan word for world-weariness will probably be a running theme with a coming Biden administration.
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January 6, 2021
Vaccine priorities: Why Americans have good reason to despise CongressThe VA is rationing vaccines to veterans while Congress and its staffers are jumping to the head of the line to get theirs.
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December 20, 2020
The Attorney General cannot exonerate the CIAWhy does AG Bill Barr think the CIA, regarding spying on President Trump, 'stayed in its lane'?
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December 12, 2020
Dred Scott II: The second judicial civil war is now upon AmericaThe Supreme Court's refusal to take the Texas case is tantamount to its infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857.
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November 30, 2020
Assassinating Iran's chief nuclear weapon scientist Moshsen Fakrizadeh vs. assassinating Holocaust architect Reinhard HeydrichHistorical parallels in stopping truly evil individuals.
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November 10, 2020
The tide is already turning for President TrumpWhen the feds knock on the door of Democrat operatives engaged in election fraud, many will fold.
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November 7, 2020
Many reasons for optimism as Election 2020 rages onBelieve it or not, President Trump was prepared for Democrats' foul antics.
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October 21, 2020
Exposing how little football commentators know about our militaryJoe Buck and Troy Aikman were caught on hot mic mocking and complaining about a military flyover of an NFL game. Here's an education.
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September 16, 2020
Socialism the big unspoken reason why so many Latinos support TrumpMemories of the "colectivos" sound a lot like the activities wrought by Antifa.
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August 30, 2020
A cautionary warning about Chief Justice RobertsHillary Clinton has telegraphed the Democrats' strategy of getting the Roberts Court to decide the 2020 election. His fecklessness in handling the FISA Court is a danger sign.
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March 22, 2020
Media showing their inner 'Mean Girls' more and more each dayThe White House press corps threw a hissy fit when an outsider reporter asked the president a clever question.
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March 14, 2020
World War C has begun, and President Trump is fighting to winThe coronavirus and China need defeating. Trump is resolved to get it done.
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February 24, 2020
Sanders glosses over Cuba, hoping you've forgotten its aggressive historyOn the eve of the anniversary of the 1996 shoot-down of Brothers to the Rescue, Bernie Sanders praised the communist regime for its "free" health care. History shows that that vaunted dictatorship is not just oppressive, but aggressive.
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February 22, 2020
US Navy shows more proof Trump's not Putin's dupeIn just another day's work, President Trump nails the liberal media in a way all Americans can understand and accept.
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January 22, 2020
Could Chief Justice Roberts make it as a traffic court judge?What ever happened to the accused having the right to face his accuser?
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January 18, 2020
Searching for a defining quoteEach moment in American history finally settles into words that capture the event.
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January 15, 2020
Chief Justice Roberts: The unseen impeachment missileThe Senate and the president have much to be concerned about.
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January 7, 2020
Trump hitting Soleimani channels Teddy RooseveltLet Iran and other nations take heed.
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December 25, 2019
Christmas joy in the Age of TrumpRejoice, Deplorables, for finally, someone is looking out for you.
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December 18, 2019
Some new questions as FISA court malfeasance details come outHow does Chief Justice Roberts factor into all this?
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December 12, 2019
After that IG report, what now, Chief Justice Roberts?His FISA process abused, he will need to weigh in on that travesty well before he rules on impeachment.
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November 22, 2019
Chief Justice Roberts now dragged into Democrat impeachment processThe chief justice has just become a fact witness in the impeachment process because of Fiona Hill's testimony.
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November 17, 2019
Stop the madness before the Democrats destroy the ConstitutionThere is one huge constitutional issue for any Senate impeachment trial that our current lightweight elected pols have not considered.
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October 22, 2019
Laws against seditious conspiracy have real legal teethNews flash for all Deep State conspirators. It is found in US Code 2384
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October 8, 2019
How impeachment works: A Clinton impeachment veteran lays it outAttention, Nancy Pelosi: Icebergs ahead...
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August 31, 2019
Follow the money if the PLA kills the Hong Kong protestersFew understand how big an influence Hong Kong money is on the PRC
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August 10, 2019
Nadler’s phony ‘impeachment inquiry’ talk will run smack into the House Rules CommitteeChairman Jerry Nadler appears to be an intellectually limited man or at least he plays one on TV.
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July 26, 2019
Why President Trump should be questioning the DoD 'cloud' contracting processA personal yarn about the joys of customer service at Amazon...
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July 17, 2019
President Trump just stopped a very bad ideaKeeping our jets out of the hands of the hardly friendly Turkish government and their very curious Chinese allies.
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July 10, 2019
Speaking of willies: In Epstein case, Bill Clinton is going to find himself politically expendableThe former president at the center of the Epstein scandal is going to find himself "fresh out of friends."
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June 27, 2019
The Venezuela endgamePresident Trump is playing the Russians, Chinese, and Cubans over Venezuela.
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May 23, 2019
President Trump leads the way in VenezuelaPresident Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize and did nothing as Venezuela spiraled into socialist ruin. President Trump simply took direct action by reaching out to President Putin with profound consequences for good.
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May 12, 2019
Pompeo’s Mission to Moscow could pave the way for Maduro to exit VenezuelaSometimes it really is "all about the money."
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May 9, 2019
While Trump tries to save Venezuela, Senate Democrats block his appointmentsThe nominated head of USAID for Latin America could really help if Democrats would just confirm him already.
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May 7, 2019
How Trump is turning around the failing efforts to oust MaduroA leader who truly lives "The Art of the Deal" has just personally engaged with Russia to guide Maduro out and acting president Guaidó fully in with a minimum loss of life.
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May 1, 2019
Still time to debate any US engagement in VenezuelaPresident Trump's deal-making skills are perfectly suited for this situation.
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April 26, 2019
Dorian Gray enters the race for presidentJoe Biden is a symbolic Dorian Gray, with a lot of hidden ugliness.
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April 1, 2019
General Flynn has been grievously wronged, and Defense Department archives may have the evidenceGeneral Michael Flynn was set up and sandbagged by rogue FBI agents while the national security director, Susan Rice, was orchestrating a domestic political intelligence operation of historic magnitude.
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March 27, 2019
The Incalculable Damage of the Russia HoaxHow the American media handed an information warfare victory to Vladimir Putin.
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March 14, 2019
A real doomsday bomb from President Putin?The Russian strongman threatens life on Earth.
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February 27, 2019
US air power scares the Russian bearA lasting phrase used by President Obama is actually appropriate in this situation: the Russians are getting all "wee-weed up."
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February 17, 2019
Meet Monica Witt, the traitorous Iran defector you never heard ofMonica Elfried Witt served in the U.S. Air Force, flying classified missions. She defected to Iran in 2013.
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February 10, 2019
Acting AG Matthew Whitaker: Football impresario, stomper of DemocratsWhitaker's athletics Friday against the Judiciary Committee's Dems are for the ages.
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February 3, 2019
In the wake of Northam, some truly hollow menDemocrats reveal "who they are" in their strange employment of principles around the multiple scandals of Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam.
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January 23, 2019
People who want to put kids in a wood chipper should maybe be on the no-fly listEspecially when those people produce kids' movies in Hollywood.
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January 17, 2019
Speaker Pelosi apparently forgot she also has a police forceMadame Speaker, please stop overlooking the Executive-Legislative security partnership supported by your own Capitol Police Force when playing politics. It is just petty and wrong.
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January 3, 2019
Does China's Admiral Luo Yuen understand that we shoot back?"We'll see how frightened America is."
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December 31, 2018
Mr. Chief Justice: What are you doing about the fraud on the FISA Court you supervise?Chief Justice Roberts already has involved himself in the Mueller probe. Why not take on the fraud against the FISA Court?
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December 11, 2018
Words have meaning, John BrennanHas former CIA director John Brennan just made a very public threat against the physical well-being of the president?
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December 8, 2018
No way out for Clinton, Inc. corruption this timeThe legal dodge they have counted on in the past won't work this time.
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December 5, 2018
Trump's Enemies: A Book for the AgesPrimary-source reporting, a good solid election timeline, and the case for Trump 2020 all in one.
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November 25, 2018
History shows President Trump fully understands posse comitatusIt has been reported that there was a robust WH debate over the scope of empowering the US Military to assist in border protection, as the issue of posse comitatus was being discussed
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November 17, 2018
Just try behaving like Acosta in a federal courtroomJudge Kelly did not give the President of the United States the same rights and honor currently afforded all judges throughout America.
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November 14, 2018
One of the most ignorant anti-Trump Stories yetA former Naval aviator, Marine pilot explains why the helicopter trip to the American cemetery in France was aborted.
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November 11, 2018
Why get captured in fighting the last war of the Florida recount process?What's happening in Florida today is nothing like what occurred with Bush-Gore 2000.
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October 6, 2018
If Christine Ford's lawyer needs a lawyer, the fat lady's singingPure desperation and panic as the Kavanaugh vote approaches.
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October 4, 2018
High school antics 1964 – and The WarAs Democrats yell about the collective guilt of men throughout the Kavanaugh debacle, remember the wartime contributions and sacrifices of those same men under that very Democratic Party's leaders.
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September 30, 2018
Democrats ask for the FBI and now they’d better be prepared for the consequencesIn the course of the FBI's hurry-up full field effort, very interesting heretofore hidden information previously posted on social media sites will be captured and reviewed via the awesome power of computer forensic tools of our 21st Century Surveillance State
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September 19, 2018
Professor Ford: Be careful what you wish forI’ve been through the process of Senate advise-and-consent confirmation, including an FBI background investigation. Do the Democrats so anxious to demand an FBI investigation really want to open Pandora's box?
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September 11, 2018
Mister Chief Justice: You have a major problemFISA Court judges are unique in American history and are the wholly owned responsibility of Chief Justice John Roberts, who alone appoints them. The sacred social contract of his stewardship in owning the FISC-appointed judges means that the buck stops with the chief justice.
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August 25, 2018
The Washington scandal volcano is rumblingIn D.C., when the gods are angered, the P.R. volcano needs human sacrifices. Will it swallow up President Trump?
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August 17, 2018
Did James Clapper meet with Bruce and Nellie Ohr?The spies were spied, and questions must be asked under oath.
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July 23, 2018
A new day is dawning at the Department of Veterans AffairsWith a new secretary coming on board and laws and procedures on veterans' side when they engage with the Department of Veterans Affairs, in this age of President Trump.
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July 18, 2018
Trump and Putin take steps to save livesAn old Cold War incident underlines the importance of the Trump-Putin summit.
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July 14, 2018
Seriously: Call in the Secret Service to investigate Special Agent StrzokThis is a fanatical and dangerous man.
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June 25, 2018
What to do when anti-Trump zealots cross the line into violence or even chargeable menacingA modest proposal.
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June 16, 2018
A necessary question for IG Horowitz when he testifies MondayPolitics ultimately will take a back seat to fact-based evidence that will eventually put a lot of individuals in jail.
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June 15, 2018
A former IG investigator looks at the DOJ IG reportHaving been an I.G. investigator and author of a very inclusive report, I know the format. It is extremely critical to the integrity of the report to be as inclusive as necessary in compiling all relevant information. Yet some things are missing.
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June 8, 2018
'Investigation of the investigators' beginsMichael Caputo, the former Trump campaign staffer whose finances were almost ruined by Robert Mueller's investigators into the phony Russiagate and who said "God d--- you to hell" to the Senate Intelligence Committee, must be feeling vindicated this morning.
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April 25, 2018
Media launching smear campaign against Trump's physicianHere is a man who has served three presidents with distinction, including Obama. And the media have the long knives out.
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April 9, 2018
A ‘Strategic Pause’ to Fix the Department of Veterans AffairsPresident Trump and his Secretary-Designee Admiral Jackson have, in my professional judgment, a one-time generational opportunity to finally "fix" the Department of Veterans Affairs
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March 6, 2018
Anti-military posturing surfaces hard with Burlington, Vermont vote todayThe "Save Our Skies" movement seems to have a real animus against the Air National Guard with this ballot initiative.
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January 6, 2018
Another shrink breaks ethics rules by diagnosing Trump secondhand as insaneEven the American Psychological Association says mental health diagnoses without an examination are not kosher. Congress doesn't seem to care.
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October 29, 2017
Mueller facing a historic legal blowbackThe Uranium One scandal has teeth, and it's coming back to bite Robert Mueller.
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October 21, 2017
The long history of Russians trying to bribe Clinton, Inc.The efforts by the Russian mob to bribe the Clintons goes back to 1996.
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December 17, 2014
Information War: Not Quiet on the Hollywood FrontSony Pictures is fighting hacking the absolutely wrong way.
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November 28, 2014
Chuck Hagel is not yet gone, and will not be forgottenRevenge in the Senate confirmation hearings for his successor? How the trap could be sprung.
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May 28, 2014
Hillary's Chinese Espionage ProblemIf she runs for president, Hillary Clinton will open a door.
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November 5, 2012
Barack Æthelred ObamaThe New York Times is now allowing the President's team to try and throw the US Military under the very crowded pile of people and institutions squashed by his reelection bus.
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November 4, 2012
Obama Lost the Battle of BenghaziHollywood is trying to really embellish President's Obama role in the SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Benghazi reveals a man personally paralyzed in action during a battle in which Americans were attacked, overrun and killed.
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August 31, 2012
The Greatest Piece of Performance Art in American Political HistoryEastwood wows convention.
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December 1, 2011
Medal of Honor recipient continues to demonstrate courageA very public fight has broken out because a US Marine made a stand.
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August 18, 2011
What About the Enlisted Ranks?The recent announcement from the Defense Business Board about changing the retirement promise to members of the Armed Forces brought class warfare to the military ranks.
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April 18, 2011
Hope is not a StrategyPlatitudes, bromides, spin, TOTUS, and tweets will not hack it.
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April 5, 2011
The Children's CrusadeRussian PM Putin was being kind in calling our Libya engagement a "crusade."
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March 25, 2011
Crusaders at WorkA much honored, even legendary term from history, "Crusaders", has fallen by the wayside in this era of political correctness and American engagements in Middle East wars.
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August 21, 2010
Clinton Administration's Chickens Come Home to RoostA very real clear and present danger to America and our Pacific Rim allies has its roots in the state-of-the-art military technology stolen by China in the late 20th century.
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July 2, 2010
Obama Let the Immediate Drive Out the Important in the McChrystal AffairThose cheering President Obama's decisiveness in relieving General McCrystal missed a much bigger picture: the very real possibility of a coming military clash over Iran's quest for nukes.
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January 30, 2010
The Great Game in the 21st CenturyChina sends out a trial balloon that it "mulls setting up military bases in Pakistan."
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December 22, 2009
Other Consequences of ClimategateSerious environmental issues have been festering in spite of billions spent on murky models.
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July 19, 2009
F-22 to Japan and Israel: A debt of HonorThe F-22 is the ultimate deterrent aircraft. Two of our allies faced with mortal threats need it, but may be denied access, thanks to a foolish Obama administration decision.
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July 5, 2009
WaPo shows Nixon how it's doneKatharine Weymouth, publisher of the Washington Post, has written an apology to readers. If only Richard Nixon had known the proper Post-approved etiquette for handling such matters, the nation might have been spared considerable trauma.
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June 29, 2009
The Mullahs and the Tiananmen OptionThe key is to watch how far the Iranian rulers will go in following what the PLA did in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square. It will get very ugly, I think.
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May 26, 2009
The First War In CyberspaceCyberwar is now a fact of life in 21st Century wars. Actual and potential enemies of America already know the dimensions of Cyberwar and have moved into full combat.