Author: Frumentarius

The administration’s Syria strategy has reached a critical point, and requires a re-assessment and re-focus.

The Medal of Honor’s selection process should not be clouded by base concerns and expediency. This nation’s highest military honor should not be tarnished.

What to make of this latest article in the New York Times, detailing the “secret history” of SEAL Team 6?

Yes, fights will erupt between the SOF active duty and veterans’ communities, but on the battlefield, that is all left behind, and we are all brothers.

The station phase starts slow, then ramps up into confusion, chaos, and crisis. Imagine a CIA officer in Moscow when communism fell. That about captures it.

Men and women like Adam served us all, and gave their all for us, and for that we are so grateful. However, we are even more grateful to their families, who continue to sacrifice every single day for all of us, in their loss, and will do so for the rest of their lives.

I wrote a column not too long ago that dealt with raising boys. I rather enjoyed writing it. It was like reminding myself of what I needed to do with my own children, as I strive on a daily basis to be a good father. It was almost like writing it to myself as a […]

Regardless of its growing pains, it is indisputable that the U.S. military’s tactical combat casualty care has saved many lives.

Hersh has shot off the proverbial target paper on this one. He ignores just how urgently the U.S. wanted to find and capture or kill Bin Laden.

All that remains is for us to survive the final, brutal, week-long exercise, followed by graduation. Not everyone will make it to become CIA case officers.

This heartbreaking loss of two SEALs is illustrative of the dangers of pushing oneself to the absolute physical limits of endurance and performance.

I had started the first phase of the CIA’s field tradecraft training. I had taken the proverbial pill, and seen the Matrix. My eyes had been opened.