As we have seen in Ukraine, drones currently work powerfully in favor of the defense.  The reason is simple: the attacker has to move while for the most part, the defender can remain in fortified positions (although his counterattack forces must still move).  This is nothing new; despite the claims of the airpower lobby, air attack has not been very successful against stationary ground forces.  In NATO’s war with Serbia over Kosovo, vast amounts of the most modern airports bombarded Serbian forces in Kosovo for weeks on end.  NATO claimed to have destroyed over a hundred Serbian tanks; the actual number, revealed when the Serbs withdrew, was thirteen.  The Serbian tanks were dug in and did not have to move.

Who won the debate between President Trump and Kamala Harris?  If the debate had been held as part of a college debating contest, the answer would have been Harris.  But that is not the situation here.  To evaluate this debate correctly, we need to put it in the right context.  That context was an opportunity for tens of millions of Americans to get their first look at Kamala Harris.

One of the most important issues to be decided in November’s election is whether we will remain a country with freedom of thought and expression or be subject to the dictates of cultural Marxism, with any dissent severely punished.

For those of  us familiar with the eastern front in World War II, seeing Kursk in the news is deja vu all over again.  Then, the battle was not just operational but strategic significance since it destroyed the reserve of German armored vehicles General Heinz Guderian had created with great effort.  Germany never managed to build up such a reserve again.

President Trump’s promise to “Make America Great Again” may mean more to someone my age than it does to young people. Why? Because I grew up in an America that was great, America in the 1950s. The 1950s was our last normal decade. Almost everyone, rich or poor, white or black, lived by standard middle class values. The country was safe, problems in school were running in the halls and talking in class, and entertainment meant “Father Knows Best” and “Leave it to Beaver.” “Gay” meant “happy” and blacks were “colored people” who were known for wonderful service not shooting each other. That America’s proudest achievement was a vast, blue-collar middle class. A guy with or often without a high school degree could get an industrial job that paid enough so he could get married, have kids and give his family a middle-class life on one income.

War’s latest thing is drones. Some see them as heralding a revolution in warfare. I see them as a problem different in quantity rather than quality, although I am mindful of the old Russian saying that quantity has a quality all its own.

Now to the fire swelling all around us as Washington fiddles. Fourth Generation, non-state forces are in the process of winning two wars, one highly important but no surprise, the other of small importance but a shocker.

Both in the United States and in Europe, one election issue stands so tall it puts all others in the shade. Will voters continue to allow the elites to force cultural Marxism down everyone’s throats, or will they rebel and vote for President Trump in America and parties such as National Rally in France and Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Germany? On that question hangs the fate of western civilization.

Russia and NATO are now on the escalatory ladder in Ukraine, and NATO, not Russia, is driving both parties upward. The latest escalation is a decision by the United States and, stupidly, Germany, to allow Ukraine to fire American and German made missiles into Russia itself. Currently, the permission applies only to the northern front in the vicinity of Kharkiv, but you can count on that limitation being lifted in another step upward on the ladder - a ladder that reaches all the way to nuclear war.

With the first of President Trump’s show trials over, he is now, as he said, a political prisoner.  Does anyone really believe he would have faced any of the four legal processes launched against him if he were a liberal Democrat?  We need only compare his treatment for retaining classified documents with that accorded to President Biden, or the kid-glove treatment Biden has received for making himself millions of dollars, to see the blatant double standard.

Several People have inquired why I have not written a column for TR in some time.  Let me assure them I am in good health and face no lack of material as our world speeds towards destruction.  The reason I have not written is that the TR website is being wholly revised and much improved.  That work should be done soon, and once it is I will fire more barrages at my usual target, folly.  I think readers will find the revisions to the website worth the wait.