When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. —EDMUND BURKE
What’s this bit in Chinese that keeps popping up? he said. Xuĕ Lóng? It’s the codename for the operation. What does it mean? Xuĕ Lóng is a mythical Chinese creature said to bring darkness, cold, and d...
Their time was short, so Morrell spoke quickly. It is the stated policy of the United States government never to negotiate with terrorists. We all know it’s the nation’s first and most important comma...
The rain forests of the Congo Basin contained so much water that they caused their own weather system, and were known as the Lungs of Africa.
The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn’t win by thinking inside the box and following someone else’s rules....
The first thing Harvath removed was a sand-colored, modified Palafox 9mm SIG Sauer P226 pistol. It had bright green TRUGLO Tritium/Fiber-Optic Day/Night sights that allowed for fast target acquisition...
The best kind of nation was one where the government feared the people. When the government feared the people there was liberty. When the people feared the government, there was tyranny.
That wasn’t why he had accepted this job. He had accepted it because someone needed to be willing to stand up and do the right thing for the nation, no matter what the personal cost.
Scot Harvath wasn’t trying to hide. He expected to be seen. That was the plan. Be brief. Be bloody. Be gone. There would be handwringing by the Austrians, of course. But the politics of the assignment...
PC or not, Middle Eastern groups, including Abu Nidal’s, are not tacticians. They walk into nightclubs strapped with explosives, plant car bombs, spray crowded markets with machine-gun fire, and fly h...
Muslim students would go through a bunch of feel-good exercises and leave with the impression that without Islamic contributions to science, there would be no U.S. space program.
Hegelian dialectic—a psychological tool used to manipulate the masses. In this case, you create a problem, wait for the reaction, and then offer the solution. What people historically fail to realize,...
As a living organism, the Federal Government’s number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with.
As Ben Franklin was alleged to have said, those who would trade a little liberty for a little security deserve neither and will lose both.
We still live in a world where might makes right. The moment we lose sight of that rule and start shrinking from our duties as a nation, is when we’ll all need to begin trading in our minivans and bas...
Hunt you down and kill you myself. Chapter 18 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA The call from Philippe Roussard’s handler came in the middle of the night. Do you have everything in place? Roussard sat up in bed
Benjamin Franklin, that those who trade some of their liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. The wisdom of the founders never ceased to amaze him.
The funny thing about believing you can do no wrong is that you quickly begin doing nothing but wrong.