How free people fight, what it costs, and how they win.
Gregg Roman writes about the volunteers history keeps forgetting — the citizens who go when the state will not.
IDF veteran · Israeli Ministry of Defense · Advisor to Israel’s deputy foreign minister · Taught counterterrorism at West Point · Hundreds of media appearances a year
Free people fight. The fight has a price. This site keeps the count — across a doctrine, three histories, and a novel.
From the field
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This site is new, and it holds the whole count: two hundred twenty-two essays, the full broadcast and testimony record, five books carrying one argument. The Closing Window is out now; The Carthage Doctrine arrives in October. The Ledger opens soon.
Four ways in
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“I read thrillers.”
Start with the novel — propulsive spy fiction written from the inside.
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“I work in policy and national security.”
A real alternative to managed decline, argued by someone who has operated.
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“I read military history.”
The untold parallel history of American volunteers.
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“I care about Israel and the Jewish story.”
Heritage and sacrifice — the debt, kept honestly.
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The Closing Window
The people who were supposed to act wouldn’t. The people who could — did.
As protest sweeps Iran, a Washington think tank does what its government will not: the Meridian Institute is running live networks inside the country. Then the thirty-nine-day war ignites, and everyone at Meridian must weigh the cost of action against the price of standing by — knowing every name on the ledger is real. A thriller about the people who move when the state hesitates, and the count that never stops.
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