ACRU Commentary

LTC Allen West Visits Will Cain Show to Comment on Constitutional Military Actions

ACRU Executive Director Allen West visits the Will Cain Show to set the record straight on constitutional military actions. In politics, depending on who is in charge, the same actions just might be deemed constitutional or unconstitutional, depending on one's political opinions. Colonel West points out several recent examples of political hypocrisy to make the point. 

By |2026-01-09T16:44:19-05:00January 9, 2026|ABW OpEd, ACRU Commentary, Uncategorized|

America’s 21st Century National Security Strategy

"A Nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through the alleys, and heard in the very halls of government itself."

By |2025-12-16T16:15:13-05:00December 16, 2025|ABW OpEd, ACRU Commentary|

If We Care About Lawfare, Start With the DEI and Woke Requirements Being Imposed by State Judge Pickers

The Left’s relentless campaign of woke lawfare has been on my mind recently. As I wrote this fall in these very pages, “we are in the midst of a wave of lawfare against anything that resists the Left: the Trump Administration, industries that have refused to bend the knee to progressive policy preferences, and individuals who dare disagree or speak up against the Left’s worldview.”

By |2025-12-06T13:50:23-05:00December 6, 2025|ACRU Commentary|

The Party of No Responsibility

I learned an important maxim from my service in the Army: "Leaders take responsibility, they never take credit.” It is time that America stops selecting imbecilic, irresponsible charlatans as elected officials. It is time for the adults to step up, as responsible adults, and do what is necessary to lead this Nation. It starts with telling the American people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear, or being gimme-crats.

By |2025-12-03T14:32:19-05:00December 3, 2025|ABW OpEd, ACRU Commentary|

Sympathy for the Devil

How does the United States deal with non-state, non-uniform unlawful combatants? Those who are part of a defined state's armed services, who wear a common uniform, and openly carry their weapons and arms are recognized by the Law of Land Warfare as "lawful combatants.” And, as lawful combatants, they are afforded what is termed "combatant privilege.” Go back and read about the Geneva Convention protections. However, non-state, non-uniform belligerents on the battlefield, terrorists, are not afforded combatant privilege because they are unlawful combatants.

By |2025-12-03T14:27:44-05:00December 3, 2025|ACRU Commentary, Colonel's Constitutional Brief|
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