Grant Newsham is a senior research fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies and a retired United States Marine Officer. He was the first US Marine liaison officer to the Japan Ground Self Defense force and was instrumental in promoting the JSDF’s initial moves towards an amphibious capability.

TODAY’S TOPICS:

* The road ahead in Hong Kong

* Is this out of the Communist playbook?

* Will the world react or will it continue to look the other way in order to do business in China?

Click on this link to watch the “Bible Baptist Church Covid-19 Event Reopening Press Conference” with their Pastor Charles Clark III and several other pastors (to include his father at the end). The pastors address local media about their decision to reopen for services in defiance of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s stay-at-home orders.

TODAY’S TOPICS:

* The concept of the “Residual Force” in Afghanistan — thoughts?

* Are we still “cautiously pessimistic” on the future of Afghanistan?

* Will the US Navy really fire if an Iranian Navy boat comes within 100 meters of a US Naval vessel?

The video of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is HERE (it’s the second video)

The outstanding New York Post opinion column by by David Marcus is HERE

Mike Ettore – Executive Leadership Coach at Fidelis Leadership Group joined me for the third episode of a ten-part series we’ll do on his recently published book entitled “TRUST BASED LEADERSHIP — Marine Corps Leadership Concepts for Today’s Business Leaders” — great insight from a guy who has written an incredible book on leadership that can be used by ANY leader to become a better leader faster.  In this episode we discuss the things that gave us confidence as kids to lead — it’s an awesome discussion.

You can find Mike’s book HERE.

I’m not one for chartering the “black helicopter” but I know bullshit when I see it and Susan Rice’s “cover your administration’s ass” memo is exactly that.  She wrote that KNOWING that the Trump Administration would find out what the Obama Administration had done… all of it predicated on false/unverified reports which begs the question — where was the Acting Attorney General (Sally Yates) in all of this?  WTF?!

Joe Galloway earned his spurs as a award winning newspaper reporter during the Vietnam War. His New York Times best-selling book, co-written with LTG Hal Moore, USA (ret), “We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young: Ia Drang—The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam” is considered a classic in military history.  He joined ALL MARINE RADIO to discuss his career and his newly released book entitled “They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of our Vietnam Veterans” as well as his thoughts on the Ken Burns documentary “The Vietnam War” (which Joe consulted on) and finally, watching the nation disregard the lessons learned in Vietnam and go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bronze Star with Combat “V” device:  On May 1, 1998, Galloway was decorated with the Bronze Star with “V” Device.[1] The medal was in recognition of his heroism on November 15, 1965, during the Battle of Ia Drang,[3] the first major battle by U.S. and North Vietnamese troops in the Vietnam War. Galloway was present as a journalist. During the fighting, he risked his own safety to assist wounded soldiers. His actions are depicted in the film We Were Soldiers in which he is portrayed by actor Barry Pepper.

More about Joseph L. Galloway

Joseph L. Galloway, one of America’s premier war and foreign correspondents for half a century, recently retired as the senior military correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers. Before that he held an assignment as a special consultant to General Colin Powell at the State Department.

He is the co-author of the 2020 book They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans with Marvin J. Wolf, published by Nelson Books. They Were Soldiers features 49 interviews with Vietnam Veterans from all walks of life and focuses on the contributions they made to America after they returned home. It makes a strong case that the men and women who participated in the Vietnam War were every bit the equal to their “Greatest Generation” parents–and that they were certainly the greatest of their generation.

Early in 2013, Galloway was sworn into service as a special consultant to the Vietnam War 50th Anniversary Commemoration project run by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He was also a permanent consultant to Ken Burns’ Florentine Films project to make a documentary history of the Vietnam War which was initially broadcast in 2017 on PBS.

Galloway, a native of Refugio, Texas, spent 22 years as a foreign and war correspondent and bureau chief for United Press International, and 20 years as a senior editor and senior writer for U.S. News & World Report magazine. He joined Knight Ridder in the fall of 2002.

During the course of 15 years of foreign postings–including assignments in Japan, Indonesia, India, Singapore and three years as UPI bureau chief in Moscow in the former Soviet Union–Galloway served four tours as a war correspondent in Vietnam and also covered the 1971 India-Pakistan War and half a dozen other combat op...

Alex Hollings is a long-time contributor on ALL MARINE RADIO as well as an Editor at SANDBOX.COM — he joined us  this morning to discuss:

* The US Navy and UFO’s… what’s that all about?

* The US Space Force’s X37B lifted off again…

* DOD & Covid -19 — Chinese military planners are taking notes about the US military response to Covid-19 — what needs to change?