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The Bizarre Illogic of Terrorists
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, as I anticipated an activation of my Air National Guard unit, I saw a photo of a pro-al Qaeda demonstrator in Pakistan. He held a sign that said: The World is Red With Muslim Blood. I wanted to ask him, “Where? Shed by whom?” I’d like to ask a similar…
Read MoreNew Thriller, THE WARRIORS, Marks 20th Anniversary of Deadly Conflict in Bosnia
Twenty years ago, Sarajevo burned. From 1992 to 1995, the Bosnian capital endured one of the worst sieges of modern warfare. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of other significant events from the Bosnian war, as well. In 1993, the United Nations declared a number of “safe areas,” including the town of Srebrenica. Two years…
Read MoreA Very Short Short Story About Iraq (with apologies to Ernest Hemingway)
You’re flying along on a combat airlift mission over the Sunni Triangle. External lights off, plane blacked out, night-vision goggles on. Baghdad fell just days ago. Just a few miles from Saddam International Airport–it has yet to be renamed–a burst of tracer fire comes up off the left wing. Needles spearing up into the night.…
Read MoreSemper fi!
Researching a Novel
On a Writer’s Digest blog, I share a few thoughts about researching a novel. (You can travel the world, or you can do research right at home. Just depends on your budget, schedule, and needs.) To read more, click here.
Read MoreJapanese editions!
Scenes from a deployment
The Jim Bohannon Show
Many thanks to Jim Bohannon for the opportunity to speak with him last night on his radio program. Click here to listen to that edition of The Jim Bohannon Show. Enjoyed chatting with him about my new novel, THE RENEGADES. (My segment begins about forty minutes into the audio file. You can slide the play bar…
Read MorePTSD Awareness
Today, June 27, is a national day of awareness about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Please remember that for many troops, their war does not end when they return home. “American Thinker” interviewed me and some other folks for an article on the subject.
Read MoreA little research…
In my military career, I’ve always been a flyboy–never an infantryman, and certainly never any kind of special operator. But some of the characters in my novels are trigger-pullers, and to write them accurately, I have to do a little research. To that end, I recently took a great long-range rifle course at Storm Mountain…
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