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About Christopher Holshek

Christopher Holshek, Colonel (Retired), U.S. Army (Reserve) Civil Affairs, is a Senior Associate at the Project on National Security Reform.

The Pacific Coast – Builders and Artists

Following my return from Liberia and the wonderful family get-together in Simi Valley, on Monday the 7th of June, I was road bound again.  It was good to be back on the Harley after two weeks.  Southern California, however, was … Continue reading

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Liberia – From the Outside In

The day after taking in the Reagan Library, on the 24th of May, I took a flight from Burbank to Washington-Reagan via Dallas.  Two days later I joined 13 graduate students and the Director of the George Mason University Peace … Continue reading

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Simi Valley, CA – “Guns N’ Ideas”

U.S. 93 North into Nevada was thankfully smooth, with long stretches of straight road through expanses of desert less colorful and without the dramatic rock formations that typify Arizona.  Southern Nevada is more like New Mexico, but more brown than … Continue reading

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New Mexico and Arizona – Desert Brainstorms

If I had thought I had seen the worst of the windy weather along Interstate 10 in Louisiana and Texas, I was mistaken.  After a pleasant ride from Roswell and two days in Santa Fe, I headed down (losing about … Continue reading

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New Mexico Military Institute – “Old Post”

As I was making my way through West Texas, about 80 or so miles east of Fort Stockton, where I was to turn north on U.S. 285 that would take me to Roswell, NM and my alma mater, New Mexico … Continue reading

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