Author: Guy D. McCardle

Behind vault doors and black budgets, there’s a Starbucks where the foam is classified, the espresso’s top secret, and even your cappuccino comes with plausible deniability.

Five hundred U.S. military trainers are now on the ground in Taiwan, forging a battle-ready force designed to slam the brakes on any Chinese move across the Strait.

On a beach better known for rum drinks and sunburns, the U.S. Air Force turned the sky into a booming love letter to American air dominance.

This isn’t immigration reform—it’s moral cowardice dressed up as national interest, tossing our Afghan brothers and sisters to the wolves after they carried our water through two decades of war.

Captain Kimberly Nicole Hampton was a trailblazer who, with unwavering courage and dedication, made the ultimate sacrifice while flying into danger, leaving behind a legacy of honor, leadership, and patriotism.

Memorial Day isn’t about mourning the dead so much as it’s about honoring them by living the kind of lives they died to protect—loud, grateful, and unapologetically free.

Staff Sergeant Ronald J. Shurer II did more than just save lives on a mountainside in Afghanistan—he showed the world what it looks like when courage, skill, and selflessness come together in one man.

As Trump wages war on Harvard, a would-be embassy bomber gets cuffed, Iran edges closer to weapons-grade uranium, and the CIA warns the real threat might already have a badge—welcome to today’s national security gauntlet.

The future of naval warfare just pulled up to the dock—sleek, silent, and ready to ruin someone’s day.

Exploring the shadowy depths of the CIA’s Special Activities Center and Global Response Staff, this piece unveils the pivotal yet largely unseen roles these units play in shaping global events and safeguarding American interests through clandestine operations and covert warfare.

Welcome to Sunday, May 25, 2025. In a weekend of geopolitical whiplash, Russia and Ukraine pulled off their largest prisoner swap yet, Kim Jong Un’s prized warship flopped like a beached whale, Syria’s new leader cozied up to Turkey just as sanctions lifted, and a jet crash in fog-choked San Diego tragically exposed the cost of failing airport systems.

Good evening. From a knife attack in Hamburg’s busiest train station to Trump’s unapologetically muscular West Point speech and the sudden rollback of U.S. sanctions on post-Assad Syria, this weekend reminded us that the world isn’t getting any quieter—it’s just shifting where the noise comes from.