Published in The Wall Street Journal (print edition), November 19, 2014, under the heading “The Face of Battle: Can Women Endure Its Horrors” – Letters to the Editor (WSJ http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=The+Face+of+Battle%3A+Can+Women+Endure+Its+Horrors&mod=DNH_S). The question not being asked or meaningfully addressed in the rush to … Continued
Colonel John C. McKay, (United States Marine Corps, retired) lives today in Sacramento, California. He is a Churchillian of long standing, having read Churchill’s joyous book My Early Life (A Roving Commission in the USA) in the early 1950s when … Continued
Published in The Times Literary Supplement (print edition), June 24, 2016, under the heading “The Battle of New Orleans” – Letters to the Editor (TLS http://www.the-tls.co.uk/). Sir, – Clare Pettitt writes in her review of Stephanie Barczewski’s Heroic Failure and the British (June 10) … Continued
Blue-Eyed Boy: A Memoir, Robert Timberg, Penguin Press, 384 pages As George Orwell observed, “Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any … Continued
Originally Posted on USNI Blog November 29, 2011. Like Karl Marlantes I was a rifle platoon commander in Vietnam, 1968-69, albeit with the 1st Marine Division. Like Karl Marlantes I was wounded twice, albeit I lost my left …Continued