Freedom Chronicles, Vol. 4.20.26 Iran is the last remaining state following Mohammad’s command to conquer the infidel. In that regard, it is worth noting that on September 11, 1683, the army led by the Polish King, Jan Sobiesky, together with the Habsburg forces manning the fortress walls of Vienna, defeated the Islamic armies led [...]
The Freedom Chronicles 4.13.26 In response to our attack on Iran, we must try to determine what China will do. Now that Vice President Vance has walked out of the talks in Islamabad and Trump has announced a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, it will be important to observe what Iran’s benefactor, nuclear-armed China, [...]
The Freedom Chronicles 4.7.26 Winston Churchill is among the vast number of historians who have concluded that the war in Europe could have been prevented if Britain and France had acted to stop Hitler before he invaded Czechoslovakia. His building war machine and the speeches he delivered before adoring crowds made his intended conquest of [...]
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 [...]
