Ronald Winter Books
Has our country, and by extension, much of the world, gone completely crazy? There was always turmoil, I understand that, but frankly I have never seen anything like what exists today.
We have been fighting terrorism for decades, a bit of a tip-toe approach in the 1990s, far more aggressively since 2001. America’s military has defeated terrorist forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and throughout the ‘caliphate’ that ISIS claimed jurisdiction over more recently. Yet, each time our forces win militarily, the bureaucrats and politicians undo what the military accomplishes.
As illustrated in Victory Betrayed, Operation Dewey Canyon American armed forces have successfully fought generations of enemies on foreign fields, only to be undermined by domestic enemies here at home. Operation Dewey Canyon was one of the myriad successful free-world operations in Vietnam, yet our troops were betrayed from the beginning by asinine Rules of Engagement that prevented us from blocking the Ho Chi Minh Trail and denying the communists their vital resupply and reinforcement routes.
While patriotic Americans put their lives on the line, self-anointed “elitists” toy with futures, fortunes, and lives. As we see in The Hypocrite, A Celestial Murder Mystery, these arrogant egotists exist across the spectrum of American society. And let’s not forget our elderly. With tens of thousands of nursing home residents dying – allegedly from coronavirus – anti-euthanasia forces globally are questioning government response to and explanations for this ‘pandemic.’ Granny Snatching, How a 92-Year-Old Widow Fought the Courts and Her Family to Win Her Freedom opens a true-life window into a world where money means far more than family, and ‘elder care’ is a euphemism for ‘lock them up!’
As shown in Masters of the Art, A Fighting Marine’s Memoir of Vietnam, which has been selling in hardcover and paperback since 1989, America’s warriors have been performing magnificently to defend our country, but have been vilified by a hostile media since the end of WWII. Free-world forces, led by the US, have killed tens of thousands of vicious villains in the War on Terror, hundreds of thousands in the Korean War, and more than a million in Vietnam. Yet, in each war the US State Department, backed by Congress and the media, puts enemy supply lines and facilities off-limits to US troops, permitting unrestricted resupply and reinforcement. Bureaucrats have concocted such a maze of contradictory rules and regulations that our troops face as much danger in battle from ‘legal eagles’ anxious to put convictions on their records, as from enemy forces shooting at them with bullets, rockets, and bombs.
Today’s armed forces have to wait for a person to start shooting at them before they can take action! We have military personnel sitting in prisons because they stopped the raping of little boys on American bases! And like the bureaucrats and politicians of yesterday, today's State Department seems to think America’s military is some sort of charity, not the front line defenders of our Constitution and our freedom.
Are we a nation that deserves to inherit all that our predecessors and ancestors fought, bled, sacrificed, and died for, or have we become a nation of sheep? It is easy to identify the problems facing us. The question is, what are we going to do about it?
About the Author
Ronald Winter is the author of four books including the just-released Victory Betrayed, Operation Dewey Canyon, US Marines in Vietnam, a non-fiction account of the last major, and extraordinarily successful, Marine battle of the Vietnam War. He also has written a novel, The Hypocrite, A Celestial Murder Mystery; the non-fiction Masters of the Art, A Fighting Marine’s Memoir of Vietnam, published by Random House; and Granny Snatching, How a 92-year-Old Widow Fought the Courts and Her Family to Win Her Freedom.
Winter joined the Marine Corps in January 1966 serving four years on active duty, including a 13-month tour in Vietnam as a helicopter crewman and avionics technician. While in Vietnam, Winter flew more than 300 missions as an aerial gunner and was awarded 15 Air Medals, and Combat Aircrew wings with three stars, in addition to the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and numerous other decorations.
After completing his enlistment, Winter returned to college, earning undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and English Literature. He then spent nearly 20 years as a print journalist including stints as a reporter, investigative reporter, supervising editor, and columnist, earning numerous awards for investigative reporting.
He has worked as an adjunct professor of communications and public speaking, runs an event management business with his wife specializing in military reunions, is a certified personal trainer, and an amateur competitive powerlifter. He works as a media relations specialist for public relations, advertising, and marketing firms.