The Freedom Chronicles: 3.29.26 After its first month, the bombing campaign conducted against Iran by the United States and Israel has produced some unprecedented “firsts” in the history of human conflict. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth schooled the legacy press,” Twenty-seven days ago, Iran had a modern military. Never in recorded history has a nation’s [...]
The Freedom Chronicles 03.22.2026 On April 12, 1945, the day Eisenhauer’s Allied Forces liberated Buchenwald, a man who walked out of the German camp under his own power was asked by a reporter what he had learned from the experience. The survivor replied, “When someone says he wants to kill you, believe him.” Born four [...]
The Freedom Chronicals 03.16.2026 As we await the fall of the Iranian regime, some readers of history will see it as a biblical event. Others will see it as providential in this clash of civilizations. In my book Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I describe, after Mohammad’s death in 632, the incredibly rapid conquest of the [...]
The Freedom Chronicles, Vol. 3.8.26 Amid war news coming from the Middle East, there have been reports of Kurdish military units massing near the Iranian Northern border, preparing to invade the country. In response, retired CIA Director General David Petraeus has opined that there is no prospect of Kurdish forces defeating the Iranian regime, which [...]
The Freedom Chronicles, Vol. 3.2.26 The Greek historian Herodotus tells us that Cyrus succeeded to the Persian throne in 559 BC. After conquering numerous neighboring kingdoms, including Media, Bactria. Armenia and Lydia, he conquered Babylonia, whose holdings doubled the size of his empire and made him the sole ruler of what we now know as [...]
The Freedom Chronicles Shortly before our impending war with Islamist Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a speech to European leaders for the ages. Delivered before the Munich Security Conference, his address not only elicited a standing ovation, a response unlike any in the audience’s memory, but it also moved Europe toward a resolve [...]
While the world waits to see what Trump will do about China’s close ally, Iran, it is important to note that Chairman Xi continues to purge his military. Last week, he purged the country’s most senior general, who is accused of leaking information about the country’s nuclear-weapons program to the U.S. and accepting bribes for [...]
As massive crowds of demonstrators fill the streets of Iranian cities, among the buildings on fire are mosques. Why? In my book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I detail how Persia, the Middle East, and North Africa became Muslim lands. They fell due to brutal conquest. The Persian Sasanian Empire, which ruled the lands [...]
One of the New Year's gifts given to those of us who wish to retain our freedoms is the anti-regime riots that have erupted across Iran. The significance of these riots cannot be overstated. The regime is a junior partner inside the Axis of Evil, dominated by Russia and China. They are the most regime-threatening [...]
On Christmas Day, the United States laid down the gauntlet for 2026. If you are an anti-Western, anti-freedom terrorist in ISIS, or Al Qaeda, or Boko Haram, if you are bringing drugs into the US mainland or killing and kidnapping Christians in Burkina Faso, Africa, satellites guided by our counterintelligence operatives will find you and [...]
