by Susan Katz Keating “There’s a certain sound…” The song stuck with him for years afterwards. He was being marched to his execution in the jungles of Vietnam, and had been ordered to carry a radio to pick up “Radio Hanoi,” but he secretly dialed in to a station that …

by Bobby Dee “Buford was just sitting there with the little kid. Just brought him up from the horse pasture and brought him over to the gate and was just hanging out with him.” A two-year-old boy who vanished from his home Monday afternoon was found safe the following morning …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating The case of Tamerlan Tsarnaev is a grim lesson in what happens when the security safety net has holes. Long before the smoke cleared on Boylston Street in April 2013, long before the manhunt in Watertown gripped the nation, warnings had come in. They arrived not …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating What next? Will the protest movement form nationwide soviets? Will they establish a Cheka, to punish and eliminate “enemies of the people?”  It started with petty acts of vandalism that could be dismissed as random mischief. But the anti-Tesla movement has grown into something far more …

No music, no narration, just the sounds of men as they navigate the rappel wall. These U.S. Marines tackle the wall during a jungle exercise at the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Okinawa, Japan. The week-long course teaches Marines survival skills and increases proficiency in fighting in a jungle environment. This …

On March 15, U.S. Central Command launched a series of operations consisting of precision strikes against Iran-backed Houthi targets across Yemen. The strikes are to defend American interests, deter enemies, and restore freedom of navigation. Watch an airstrike launch, below. President Donald Trump announced the strikes on Saturday. “Today, I …

In the remote backcountry, where smugglers and lost souls increasingly are part of the landscape, bad scenes have become as common as stray clouds. by Susan Katz Keating The cowboys were out on the range on a Texas morning, fixing fences that were cut down the previous night by intruders. …

This in from CENTCOM: A formation in an undisclosed location. Here’s an interesting formation. Two U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress long-range strategic bombers, along with two F-15E Strike Eagles and two Iraqi Air Force F-16IQ Vipers, take flight over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility on Feb. 17, 2025. …

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COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating The SVR did not respond to a request to explain what a cranberry movie is. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has taken a swipe at the Central Intelligence Agency’s spy recruitment videos, and has created its own counter-video, asking “true American patriots” to reach out and touch …