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Col. Bill Connor

– Col. Bill Connor is a retired U.S. Army Infantry officer, attorney, and founding partner of NATIONAL DEFENSE CONSULTANTS, LLC. While in the Army, Connor logged multiple deployments to the Middle East, and he has commanded both light Infantry and Ranger training companies. From 2007 through 2008 he was deployed to Afghanistan where he became the senior U.S. military adviser in Helmand Province. Since the start of the October 2023 war in Israel, he has provided analysis to NEWSMAX.

Most Recent Articles by Col. Bill Connor:

Ominous drop in “Happiness” among Young Americans cannot stand

The 2024 Gallup Poll of “happiness” by country portends an ominous downward trend in the United States. Until recent years, the United States consistently ranked in the top 10 “happiest” countries in the world. In the last couple of years, that ranking dipped below 10 but not by much. Last year, for example, Gallup ranked the U.S. at number 15.

Astonishingly, this year that number came all the way down to 23. Even more concerning was the burgeoning and ahistoric “age” gap shown in the survey. According to Gallup, Americans 60-and-over still rank in the top 10 in the world, while those under 30 ranked all the way down at a dismal 62. Based on these trends, we can expect the numbers to continue to plummet unless we discover the reason for such youth unhappiness and find a way to turn it around.

- Wednesday, March 27, 2024


The Progressive Steamroller through American Institutions is Destroying Trust

The 2023 Gallup Poll of trust in American institutions has been generally ignored by mainstream media, yet its findings are the most important story of the time. In illuminating the historically low trust in American institutions, Gallup showed the enormity of the trend over the past few decades.

- Tuesday, February 27, 2024

The Left’s Growing Attacks on Truth

After Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report was published describing President Biden’s violations of proper handling of classified material, Biden decided to publicly attack Hur. More specifically, Hur’s observations of Biden’s poor memory and age-related lack of mental acuity. This was despite the inclusion of Biden’s poor memory and mental clarity as justification not to prosecute him.

- Friday, February 16, 2024

Democrat Party at it again with Gaslighting on Immigration

At a campaign event in South Carolina, President Joe Biden provided the latest round of Democrat gaslighting: “A bipartisan bill would be good for America and help fix our broken immigration system and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here, and Congress needs to get it done, It’ll also give me as president, the emergency authority to shut down the border until it could get back under control. If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.”

- Saturday, February 10, 2024

New Progressive Left is becoming a death cult while decrying benign Conservative “Microagressions”

Only five days after the horrific atrocities of the Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis, Wake Forest University Professor Laura Mullen joined countless other University professors and students in justifying the murders, rapes, torture.

According to the Winston-Salem Journal, Mullen posted on X the now deleted tweet: “So it’s kind of a Duh, but if you turn me out of my house, plow my olive groves under and confine what’s left of my family to the small impoverished state you run as an open-air prison, I could be tempted to shoot up your dance party, yeah, even knowing you will scorch the Earth.”
- Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Progressive radicalism is bringing about self-destruction at Harvard and beyond

As most Americans are now aware, Harvard President Claudine Gay finally stepped down due to the multiple issues she brought on herself. She will continue as a professor with her roughly $900,000 per year salary, and continue on the faculty. Despite the soft landing, Gay has already begun lashing out at an alleged vast conservative conspiracy.

- Wednesday, January 17, 2024


U.S. National Interest Demands our supporting Israel against Hamas

Since the Oct. 7 massacre and rape of over 1,200 Israelis by Hamas, Israel has been attempting to both free the over 200 kidnapped hostages and destroy Hamas. Because Hamas retreated back into Gaza after the mayhem and embedded itself among the civilian population, Israel has been forced to fight within those civilian areas.

- Saturday, December 16, 2023

Progressive national self-loathing is an existential threat to the republic

A recent article in Foreign Policy by Sajjan M. Gohel, international security director at the Asia-Pacific Foundation, best describes a disturbing zeitgeist among Western youth: “For several days last week, U.S. media was saturated with stories about how al Qaeda’s 2002 ‘Letter to the American People’ had apparently gone viral on TikTok and other social media platforms. 

- Thursday, November 30, 2023

The ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood drives Hamas atrocities and must end

After the horrendous attacks against Israeli civilians October 7, Israel made its first declaration of war in a half century. Israel’s previous declared wars: the Israeli War of Independence in 1948-49, the 1956 “Suez war,” the 1967 “Six Day War,” and the 1973 “Yom Kippur” War, were against Arab nations driven by nationalism and/or Arab Nationalism (“Bathiism”).

- Saturday, November 18, 2023

Hamas demands for destruction of Israel have been joined by those progressives ignorant of history

Since the October 7 Hamas massacre of over 1,400 Israeli civilians (with hundreds taken hostage back to Gaza) the Hamas propaganda arm has moved into high gear.

Despite Hamas being responsible for the current war with Israel and continuing to endanger civilians by hiding amongst them, pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli rallies have been held in various parts of Western Europe and “blue” United States.

- Saturday, November 11, 2023

Israel’s wisdom and persistence after declaring war on the evil of Hamas

Following the heinous murderous attacks by Hamas against Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, Israel declared war for the first time in half a century. The last Israeli war declaration came when Egypt conducted a sneak attack on Israel on Yom Kippur in 1973, crossing the Suez Canal into Israeli controlled Sinai. Likewise, the Oct. 7 attack came on the 50th anniversary of the ‘73 war and on Sukkot, the festival honoring of God for His protection of the Hebrew people during the 40 years they spent in the Wilderness.

- Friday, November 3, 2023

Using diplomatic, informational, military, and economic elements of national power for Israel and ourselves

The October 7 Hamas attack against Israel is a day that will live in infamy for the Israeli people and its primary ally, the United States. In perspective, the Israeli death toll of over a thousand civilians in a population of less than 10-million would be the equivalent of almost 40,000 Americans being brutally slaughtered in their homes.

Pearl Harbor involved the killing of less than 2,000 members of the military on a U.S. territory in the Pacific, and yet brought America to total war seeking unconditional surrender of its enemies.

- Monday, October 23, 2023

Muslim Brotherhood’s dehumanizing of Jews festered and led to slaughter

Most Americans have now learned the extent of the atrocities committed by Hamas, and many are in shock and disbelief. Civilian women and children murdered in their homes and even burned alive. Reports of decapitation of babies. Women raped and murdered and desecrated or taken hostage with children. A peaceful gathering of young people turned into hundreds slaughtered.

- Saturday, October 21, 2023

Ugly media bias against the military must be countered

With recent national polls showing the lowest levels-ever of public trust in the media, columnist Georgie Anne Geyer's recent piece, "America's Security begins with Questions," reads with a bit of irony.
- Tuesday, March 14, 2017

ISRAEL DOES NOT DESERVE A LECTURE FROM JOHN KERRY

The day after betraying Israel with abstention in the unfair UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements, John Kerry attacked Israel directly.  In addition to a number of cutting slights, Kerry admonished Israel stating that Israel can be either a "Democracy or a Jewish state, but not both."
- Thursday, January 5, 2017

Media Elite still doesn't get why Trump won the election

Like many of my fellow Republicans and evangelicals, I was not initially enthusiastic about Donald Trump as the GOP nominee. Many of us had issues with Trump's seeming inconsistency over key conservative values; like his support of continued taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood. The division among Republicans and evangelicals over Donald Trump was stark.
- Wednesday, November 16, 2016

RESPECT FOR THE AMERICAN FLAG

Pres. Theodore Roosevelt once said, "There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag." Indeed. But with the start of the 2016 National Football League (NFL) season, Americans have become witness to a shockingly disgraceful – and in some quarters, mimicked – display of disloyalty.
- Thursday, October 6, 2016

IS AMERICA LOSING ITS MANHOOD?

Witnessing the myriad problems facing America, the shock and confusion as to what's happening to this great nation is overwhelming. From San Bernadino to Orlando, we have experienced multiple "lone wolf" Jihadist attacks by Americans against Americans on our home soil.
- Tuesday, July 12, 2016

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