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The National Interest: America’s Foreign Legions

Marriages of convenience don’t often end well.

This 5500 word feature in The National Interest started as a Facebook conversation with Milt Bearden, with whom I coauthored this. Milt, a CIA legend, won his war in Afghanistan. Mine seems to be limping to a sputtering end. Anyway, we have a long history of building partner forces and then kind of leaving them with little thought about what fruit that will bear. We need to. If we are to be a moral example for the world, how we treat others within it matters.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/america’s-foreign-legions-how-we-treat-our-proxies-defines-us-179277?fbclid=IwAR1ew5sQNACC_ZrikDd4LQE3hG0KehNuqiSTu1VH5YRKVUkDZj2ke5wx81M&page=0%2C3

Backcountry Journal: Duk’s Last Hunt

This is Duk. We are good friends.

I am a member of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, America’s fastest growing, youngest conservation group of outdoors folks. You should join. This story, about a duck hunt in public water, is really about being reborn as a later in life hunter after being away from it for decades. I have my friend Chris and his dog, Duk to thank.

You can download the file and read the story. I promise not to steal your identity and buy stuff at Best Buy.

The Wild Huntsman Podcast

After hearing David Joy and Bob Plott on this podcast, I reached out to the host Dave LaMere to tell him how much I enjoyed it. He had read one of my G&G stories and invited me on. That has led to several other opportunities and several other friends being on his show. I greatly appreciate the conversations he brings forth and the kindness he shows. I look forward to actually getting in the woods with Dave.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wild-huntsman/id1485186534?i=1000493517622

SOFLETE.com: The Dumbass Chronicles: Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Idiocy Volume One

That’s about how I saw my future in the Marine Corps in 1996.

I wrote this for SOFLETE.com because they have a strong following of young, male, military/first responder types who could hopefully learn from my foolishness. It got a pretty good response, with lots of laughs at my expense.

https://soflete.com/blogs/knowledge/the-dumbass-chronicles-lessons-learned-from-a-lifetime-of-idiocy

SOFlete.com: Podcast 81 with Dr. Rachel Lance

SOFlete podcasts are always fun, freeform, rambling affairs in which we go wherever the wave takes us. Herein we discuss the Civil War, submarines, social justice movements, the Confederate flag, cholera, and traumatic blast injuries. Enjoy!

https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=1238939513#episodeGuid=tag%3Asoundcloud%2C2010%3Atracks%2F855068323

SOFlete.com: 5 Books You Should Read Right Now: Corona Edition

This is some stock photo SOFlete found which is important because all my photos are now in some format I don’t understand and it makes me irrationally angry.

I really like writing these “5 Books” articles for SOFlete. I get to be me, recommend books I like (and that may not be on people’s radar), and help people find stuff to read. Win-Win-Win.

https://soflete.com/blogs/knowledge/five-books-you-should-read-this-summer-corona-edition?fbclid=IwAR1YirX3dEi4HiTl4h-GDxbBWZh-zK7cbRcxce1EUB-EBA7ad9VnGUw4iXc

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