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Dr. Mark Gullick was the guest on the latest episode of The Writers’ Bloc to discuss The Best Month Ever at Counter-Currents with host Nick Jeelvy, selecting the finest articles published in February 2022, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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Stephanie Gutmann
The Kinder, Gentler Military: How Political Correctness Affects our Ability to Win Wars
San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2000
About a year and a half prior to 9/11, I watched Stephanie Gutmann being interviewed on C-SPAN about her book, The Kinder, Gentler Military, which I then went on to read. What is remarkable about it is the opening sentence: (more…)
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Gregory Hood was host Greg Johnson’s guest on the last episode of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed destroying “their democracy” by running for office, voting, seceding, and building new communities — plus, of course, current events and your questions — and it is now available for download and online listening.
00:00:00 Destroying their democracy
00:04:00 Old man in Georgia yelling at clouds (more…)
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It’s been another trip around the Sun. Since nightfall occurs around 5 PM these days, it is time to sit by the fire and reflect upon the events of the last year while preparing for the next.
On the personal front, my usual New Year’s resolutions were successfully fulfilled. (more…)
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The four months that have passed since America’s debacle in Afghanistan have made it increasingly clear that this was a model that was successful from commanders and managers’ perspectives. It is therefore highly likely that it will be repeated on other battlefields. (more…)
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Joseph Ford Cotto, 1st Baron Cotto, GGGCR
Runaway Masters: A True Story of Slavery, Freedom, Triumph, and Tragedy beyond 1619 and 1776
Monee, Ill.: self-published, 2021
Some time ago I considered writing a white advocate-style article about one of America’s longest-running brush wars. My research centered on the outstanding book, History of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842 by John K. Mahon. I didn’t write the article because I thought that the conflict could only be packaged as ancient history, an old-style Indian War best memorialized in some campy Western film from the 1930s. (more…)
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
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We are now nearly a year into Senile Joe’s presidency, and something highly alarming has already happened: America has lost its power to deter. “Deterrence,” writes Victor Davis Hanson, “is the ancient ability to scare somebody off from hurting you, your friends, or your interests — without a major war.”
The Russians — not “the Russians” who hack elections, but the real live sons of Czar Alexander’s valiant army — are carrying out considerable military activity in Eastern Europe. (more…)
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Seven Days in May (1964)
Starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, & Martin Balsam
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Screenplay by Rod Serling
It is really easy to look back on the sensitive “Have you no decency, sir?” liberals of the early 1960s and dismiss their concerns. (more…)
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Colin Powell is dead. The media claims he is yet another victim of the ongoing COVID-19 plague. I won’t get into the whole vaccine morality play; once a person reaches his biblical three score and ten, diseases that are easily curable in young adults become deadly. (more…)
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I observed a fascinating dichotomy on an afternoon flight out of El Paso International Airport. A sizeable group of Afghan refugees, having just completed a stay on a nearby military base, filled the terminal; they were en route to their final destinations in name-your-city, USA. (more…)
Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller
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A persecuted Marine officer has become a folk hero to conservatives. Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller went viral in August after he publicly criticized military leaders over the debacle in Afghanistan. (more…)
