Charles van Heck's Woodhull Journal

Marine Corps Base Quantico Virginia

  • 11 November, Part Three: The Reverberating Gunshot

    “’Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans,” Bismarck predicted would ignite the next war. The assassination of the Austrian heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by Serbian nationalists on June 28, 1914, satisfied his condition.’” So wrote Barbara W. Tuchman in her book The Guns of August. On 28 July, one month later, Austria-Hungry declared war

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  • 11 November, Part Two: Oath and Loyalty

    On Tuesday, 30 September, the U.S. senior military leadership gathered at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, to hear Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump deliver remarks. The meeting struck both civilian and military personnel as rather odd. What was the assembly about exactly? Larry Wilkerson, a retired colonel and former chief of

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