Tag Archives: defense

New SecDef on post – good or ???

Posted on January 25, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

The new Secretary of Defense has been (narrowly) confirmed by the Senate and is in office. Despite his many defects (as we all have), there is at least some hope that DoD will not be business as usual, and that … Continue reading →

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NATO? War drums beating louder…

Posted on December 20, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Do we need NATO? Do we want NATO? Is NATO a good thing? Today, in 2024? As Uncle Joe and various European and Brit leaders double down on supporting the corrupt tyranny of Ukraine against the corrupt tyranny of Russia, … Continue reading →

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Keeping up appearances – DC style

Posted on June 18, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

The United States Army has, in the brass-hats’ infinite wisdom, converted US Army Alaska (USARAK) into the latest reincarnation of the 11th Airborne Division. This is, we are told, because the Arctic Strategy is very important. But it won’t add … Continue reading →

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Technology for liberty – distributed (mesh) communications

Posted on October 7, 2021 by TPOL Nathan

As society continues to deteriorate and liberty is seemingly more on the defensive right now, we need to remember that technology is virtually always neutral. A tool can be used for good or for evil, and there are few exceptions … Continue reading →

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Military threats to the Fifty States: A nuclear attack

Posted on July 9, 2021 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton Back in the early 1970s, during one of the periodic flare-ups of tension in the Cold War, Reader’s Digest published a scare story. The major threat in the public eye at the time was Soviet ICBMs and … Continue reading →

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To arms! To arms!

Posted on June 25, 2021 by TPOL Nathan

The way I read it, Joe Biden has given his blessing to massive private, personal armament. Or, at least, admitted that he and the hoplophobes, hoploclasts, gun-grabbers and their ilk and allies are all dead wrong. We need weapons – … Continue reading →

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Second wave of the Lockdown and the Lockdown Rebellion

Posted on December 4, 2020 by TPOL Nathan

Whether this current situation is or is not a true “second wave” of this pandemic (as happened in 1918-1919), I’ll leave that for the medical people. (For now, at least.) But we are most certainly in the Second Wave of … Continue reading →

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The price of defense? (More on building a wall)

Posted on June 24, 2019 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton An interesting (if biased) question was asked on a forum recently. Why do we need Trump to build the wall when a private company already builds one cheaper and faster with crowdfunding while the Democrats and judges … Continue reading →

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Rebellion? Revolution?

Posted on April 23, 2018 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton I am hearing more and more signs of rebellion in many parts of the West – especially the rural farming and ranching areas. People are sick of being told what to do in the minutest detail by … Continue reading →

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Doomed, doomed, I say

Posted on December 8, 2017 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton An interesting article was posted at The American Conservative once again proclaiming the death of the American fleet carrier. To many of us, that comes as no news at all. The vulnerability of flattops has been known … Continue reading →

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