Major Danny Sjursen is the author of Patriotic Dissent and Ghost Riders of Baghdad. Along with Chris Henrikson and Keagan Miller he hosts the podcast Fortress on a Hill. He is a veteran of the wars in Afghanistanand Iraq and a former history teacher at West Point. He joins Billy via Zoom to talk about his own history a bit. They also discuss Oliver Stone, Stalin, Staten Island and their mutual uneasy relationship with power.