Dakota Wood

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Dakota Wood is a senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense and editor of Heritage’s Index of U.S. Military Strength. Previously, he served for two decades in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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  • Our Military Is Weak. That Should Scare You.

    Dakota Wood
    Our government isn’t serious about defending the United States and its interests. In fact, it has fallen woefully short in carrying out this sacred obligation. I know this sounds harsh, but as we’ll see, the government’s own numbers prove the point. That our military is weak is not an indictment of the men and women…
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  • Pentagon’s ‘Clarification’ on Gender Pronouns? When You’re in a Hole, Quit Digging
    Cully Stimson

  • New Department of Defense Rule Neuters the Brave Men and Women Who Serve in the Armed Forces
    Cully Stimson

  • D-Day May Not Be an Official Holiday, but It Deserves Reverence Akin to That of Memorial Day
    Dakota Wood

  • In Praise of Americans Who Have Given Their All
    Dakota Wood

  • A Year After Russia Invaded Ukraine, What Does This War Teach Us?
    Dakota Wood

  • Attack of the Balloons! Inflated Peril or Real-World Danger?
    Dakota Wood

  • Marine Corps Marks 247 Years of Warfighting Innovation
    Dakota Wood

  • Why Putin’s Delusional Nuclear Gambit Can’t Be Dismissed Out of Hand
    Dakota Wood

  • Biden’s Fairy-Tale View of Land Mines Threatens the Lives of Our Armed Forces
    Dakota Wood

  • Caught Red-Handed: Critical Race Theory Taught at West Point
    Dakota Wood

  • 6 More Items on Our Christmas National Defense Wish List
    Thomas Spoehr

  • 7 Items on Our Christmas National Defense Wish List
    Thomas Spoehr

  • 5 Questions Congress Must Ask Austin, Milley, McKenzie About Afghanistan Pullout Debacle
    Thomas Spoehr

  • Critical Race Theory Will Destroy Our Military
    Dakota Wood

  • Woke Takeover of US Military Endangers Us All
    Mike Gonzalez
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