by Dave Patterson | Feb 17, 2023 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
It’s time the Defense Department focuses on the US military’s capability to sift information wheat from chaff. Increasingly more troublesome during modern warfare, the truth falls prey to the effective use of disinformation – the propaganda an enemy like...
by Dave Patterson | Feb 3, 2023 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
Keeping the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) out of Americans’ everyday affairs is becoming more challenging. We’ve seen Beijing-backed businesses purchase real estate and other US enterprises. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has...
by Dave Patterson | Jan 25, 2023 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
It was not that long ago that Liberty Nation took West Point to task for its efforts to emphasize a curriculum unrelated to the defense of national security. Now the academy is getting some notoriety for the fact that poet Edgar Allan Poe’s enigmatic and dark...
by Dave Patterson | Jan 24, 2023 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
Following a January 20 meeting of the NATO allies and friends of Ukraine at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III debriefed the press corps on the eighth in a series of Ukraine Defense Contact Group discussions. The conference had as its...
by Dave Patterson | Jan 13, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
It took an act of Congress, but the Department of Defense has finally ended the contentious vaccine mandate for all members of the military. Without that intervention, the Pentagon would still be throwing people out of the service for not being vaccinated. Many...