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WEAPONS FOR HOME DEFENSE: WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

March 23, 2018 by

    Home defense begins in the home, but you knew that. The real question of weapons and home defense starts with location, location, location.   I met a Portland man who bought a former crack house. Customers who didn’t get the press report on the crack wire crawled through his windows for a year. […]

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MODERN MILITARY GENIUS MISTAKE

June 14, 2016 by

How does military genius work? Start with technology. Military genius understands the role of technology. They’re geniuses for a reason. And they study stuff. Military genius comes in two flavors, weapons and tactics. It doesn’t take a genius to understand the evolution of weapons. Tactics are harder. The knife wins hand to hand fighting. The […]

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WHY BOOMERS NEED MORE

August 20, 2015 by

Do Boomers Need More Than Anyone Else? It Looks That Way. What do you get the person who has everything? That’s a question that starts an avalanche of more questions, such as what is everything? No one has everything they want, even if every need is answered. Start with the basics of food, shelter, and […]

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DON’T MEAN NOTHING? OR EVERYTHING?

December 9, 2014 by

The Torture Report. All war anniversaries, from WWI, to Pearl Harbor, to closing the operational command in Afghanistan, feel the same. It’s all Vietnam. That war played out on the nightly news through junior high and high school for my classmates. It was the war older brothers were drafted for, the war that robbed another […]

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FURY: BRAD PITT GOES TO WAR…AGAIN

August 2, 2014 by

Taking A Shot At The Great American War Movie. World War II is the biggest war canvas for the biggest stories. It’s that big. War stories from every other conflict miss the moral certainty, the celebration, of wiping evil off the earth. There’s nothing like a Nazi, or an Imperial Japanese soldier, biting the dirt […]

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HOW TO EXPLAIN MODERN PROBLEMS TO THE GREATEST GENERATION

July 31, 2014 by

Boomers in the Sandwich Generation have a lot to cover. Wedged between the Greats from WWII and Millennials, baby boomers in combined households find one group over-informed by network news, and the other who understand world events from Comedy Central. The younger group has time to figure things out on their terms. To the older […]

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The Car, The War

October 23, 2013 by

What’s the difference between a mobile society and a mobile war? You find out when the warriors hang up their guns. It’s how they drive down their familiar town road after trailing an IED blast in Iraq. Drive faster? Slower? Don’t drive?

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No One Joins For The Death Benefit

October 10, 2013 by

Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force. All Carry The Death Benefit. Modern war doesn’t draft troops. Young men and women talk to recruiters and sign up. They sign up on the trust of the recruiter and their own research. It’s a deal that says if you fulfill your end, we’ll do the same. What’s the deal?

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D-Day Boomer

June 6, 2013 by

How do you explain D-Day? Or Do You Plug in the beginning of Saving Private Ryan and call it good? Say it was the Greatest Generation just doing what make them great? Every anniversary drives D-Day further away from American youth, including those in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. If they’re not boomers, they’re youths. […]

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