Thoughts on John McCain
John McCain Copyright by John T. Reed (Article first written in 2008, updated 2009) John McCain emerged from the Florida primary on 1/29/08 as the frontrunner for the Republican presidential...
Trump comments about McCain being captured
Copyright John T. Reed Regarding Trump’s comments about McCain not being a war hero for getting captured. McCain said essentially the same thing. I saw him introduced once on TV...
John T. Reed’s review of The Cost of Loyalty by Tim Bakken
I got my copy of West Point whistleblower Tim Bakken’s book The Cost of Loyalty. He was a law professor at West Point for 20 years and because of his...
John T. Reed’s comments on headline news stories
.Girl flag football players should not be trying to stop the banned-131-years-ago flying wedge play . On passing the football at the high school and lower levels.The math geniuses who...
Comments on American Sniper movie
Copyright John T. Reed 2015I decided to see American Sniper after all. I went with a West Point classmate with whom I like to see war movies. We see stuff...
Articles on military matters
Some of these have been converted to the Shopify format—my current web site with my photo at the top left. Others are still in the old web site. For...
The general who lied about Pat Tillman gets promoted to military’s highest rank and made head of Afghanistan
Tillman cover-up general promoted Copyright by John T. Reed I ripped General Stanley McChrystal up one side and down the other in recent years for his lying and covering up...
Cruz was born in Canada and therefore may not be a ‘natural-born’ citizen
Copyright 2015 by John T. Reed This is a Focobook post and subsequent comments. As I previously noted—and we had all the arguments submitted as comments—Ted Cruz is not a...
Choose Congress from the phone book
October 14th, 2010 by John T. Reed William F. Buckley, Jr. famously said, I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than...
Wounded warriors
Copyright John T. Reed The “wounded warrior” thing is getting on my nerves. I am going to criticize some of them and those who proselytize for them in part and...
Copyright 2010 by John T. ReedChoose Congress from the phone bookOctober 14th, 2010 by John T. Reed, Updated 3/21/15William F. Buckley, Jr. famously said,I would rather be governed by the...
‘Elite’ military units: Army Airborne (paratroopers)
Copyright John T. Reed I graduated from U.S. Army Airborne School in December, 1968. I was a platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne Division in the summer of 1969 before...
Is the U.S. military as good at producing leaders as it says?
Copyright 2008 by John T. Reed I recently received an email from a young West Point graduate who had gotten out of the Army and was working at a household...
Should there be a military draft?
Should there be a military draft? Absolutely. Actually, I think a better question is whether anyone should be allowed into the military by any other means. This article has changed...
Does hedging against hyperinflation make you a kook?
Copyright 2012 by John T. ReedThis is a second installment in a discussion of angry emails I got from some of my book buyers when I sent them an email...
I Love a Man in Uniform by Lily Burana
John T. Reed’s review of I love a Man in Uniform One of my West Point classmates told me he read a positive review of Lily Burana’s I Love a...
Index for How to Spot Dishonest Arguments
Index Symbols 4th Amendment 34 9/11 61, 7 12-needle biopsy 45 13, Prop 33 18 USC §1001 59 20/20 hindsight 65 25th Amendment 72 25-unit apartment complex 81 30-year 70, 4 60...
