President Donald Trump ,military parade Political Cartoon
WHY TOP SECRET TO THIS DAY?
A campaign is not over when the battle ends, but when the enemy ceases to learn from it
To preserve the myth of clean war…public imagination thrives on glory, not the messy compromises of sabotage and espionage. Keeping units classified protects the illusion of honor, even when the reality is ruthless.
A parade is not merely for spectacle , no.. it is to remind a nation what loyalty looks like in formation.
Power lies in mystery , not visibility.
Today, America parades its uniforms, its banners, and its legends. But among them march phantoms .. battalions whose names were never spoken, whose actions remain sealed in vaults deeper than memory.
They fought where maps do not reach and bled for victories history was forbidden to record.
Some victories are too unorthodox for public virtue.
It is the glory of a republic to reward its heroes. But it is the habit of empires to bury them under ‘classified’ stamps and blank pages. Still, they march in this political cartoon… not for recognition, but because they were ordered, and they obeyed.
That, ma fren, is the essence of command.
A general chooses which events to preserve and which to bury. Victory gives you that right
Honor them, even if you may never know who they are. The invisible legions , they win wars history is not allowed to remember.
They moved undetected behind enemy lines for days, gathering intel that made the raids possible. Their missions were covert and intelligence-based sometimes involving impersonation, betrayal, or psychological warfare. Unlike other units, they often operated unofficially ..no insignia, no media coverage, no official deployment records at the time. GHOST ARMIES.
The people demand noble victories. The state requires real ones.
Primum non nocere
Like the Alamo Scouts , no unit patches, no fanfare, and no survivors left behind. They didn’t wait for history to notice. They just got it done.
Alamo Scouts. Executors of “do or die missions”, these men completed top secret missions
Because history is written with a scalpel, not a drum
To deny the enemy understanding —-even in retrospect.
In war, one must do what is necessary but not all necessity can survive daylight
They were so effective so brutally effective that Washington couldn’t handle it. It embarrassed the bureaucracy.
The best day ever
The visible army is for the people. The invisible one is for the enemy
Keeping a unit classified forever isn’t just for wartime secrecy … it’s to prevent future adversaries from decoding your doctrine.
HE DONE IT.
Why so many classified military units that go unseen?
Because some sacrifices cannot be acknowledged.
A state cannot weep for the men it sent to disappear
Not all soldiers are remembered. Some are used like a dagger in the dark sharp, silent, and never mentioned again.
It is the providence of war that some hands remain hidden, though their service burns brighter than any parade
The tree of liberty may sometimes be watered by shadows so long as those shadows are accountable
Let them be secret now, but not secret forever –for a Republic must know its defenders,… lest it forget its soul.
You don’t hide the past to protect history .. you hide it so the next war can still be won
They fought in silence so we could speak in freedom. Their names may be lost, their orders locked in vaults — but their courage is carved into the foundation of the AMERICAN Republic. No medal. No mention. Only the liberty they helped preserve.
While armies clashed on the field, they moved through shadows letters in invisible ink, steps in silence. They won no medals, yet saved a revolution
From the DETACHMENT A to the Ghost Army, history’s sharpest units came in silence and disappeared without credit but not without consequence.
Examples
The Culper Spy Ring was a clandestine network established by General George Washington during the Revolutionary War to gather intelligence on British activities in New York City and surrounding areas. It was a crucial component of Washington’s efforts to undermine the British occupation and gain a strategic advantage. Washington knew he couldn’t beat the British without knowing their movements, reinforcements, and intentions.
If captured, they would be hanged immediately as spies.
Their true names and roles were kept hidden from the public and even the Continental Congress.
The full identity of some ring members wasn’t confirmed until the 20th century.
He believed that quiet loyalty, even without glory, was the highest service a patriot could offer.
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WHY Military Units STILL CLASSIFIED TODAY?
What the people do not see, the politicians cannot interfere with
Because the Senate cannot control what it cannot name.
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Why Keeping the Past Classified Protects the Future
History is a playbook. If you publish yours, your rivals train with it.
The present may still depend on the classified past
Every successful mission, tactic, or operation becomes a lesson plan for your enemies —– unless you keep it secret. By hiding past victories, you deny them the data they need to build countermeasures in future.
War evolves slowly. What worked once may work again … if they haven’t studied it.
A shadow, once studied, becomes a map. That is why some shadows are never named
Because surprise is more decisive than strength. The greatest victories are those the enemy never sees coming
Because fear of the unknown weakens the enemy
A rumor of ten invisible legions can rout more men than the clash of one
The Republic needs her victories, not her sins
A general tells the story he needs the people to believe , not the one that happened..
To be up with The Times and to be a part of the future I decided to see if AI could do this political cartoon better than me. I am not fighting the future, but embracing it so I can be taken along. See if it could help me.
To keep up with the times and be a part of the future, I asked AI to draw this political cartoon like I described it. To see if it was better or I could improve my cartoon before posting.
This looks really nice…I especially like the blacked out eyes, it’s got a striking effect. But I don’t think I can use it in a cartoon out of respect for the soldiers. I’d rather not depict them with black eyes, I gave some of them sunglasses .
What are they saying, its all spelled wrong.
AND HERE COMES THE LEGEN WORLY WAR u Unit Whooe Ag Are so Secket, Even Thet B Know what they DID?
COME ON!
Also, I’m not sure what the paper Trump is holding is supposed to say. And who’s “Fabioe”? It is supposed to be a military parade 2025 program.. I later changed this on my cartoon, and put in on their banner. I changed the banner to this too.
The line from the soldiers wasn’t meant to come from them directly…it was supposed to be from a narrator over a loudspeaker.
It’s honestly a little creepy how the AI got the exact uniform and helmet designs. I called it a WW2 FUSION. I love designing uniforms.
Even weirder, it rendered everything in pencil…the same medium I’d already planned to use for this political cartoon. It’s like it read my mind. Pretty eerie. I had it set up I was going to do the whole thing in pencil, but changed my mind. I had it all set up to be in pencil.
And the design behind Trump, I has already used this design, but scrapped it later. Before I asked AI for this cartoon. It looks just like it— in the cartoon by ai. What I had scrapped earlier in my political cartoon.
Ai is amazing. How did it know that?
This design was behind Trumps head originally.
Look AI put it in KIND OF. I see it.
AI put 12 stars on the American flag. What does THAT mean?
AI FAIL/HUMAN WIN THIS TIME.
This is from the Military Parade 2025. I used this as a a reference for their formation
All of my political cartoons are drawn directly from the source… from that story’s photographs. I do not create vague or generic imagery like a cheap pamphlet illustrator or AI. I dont just GIVE YOU A CARTOON or President Trump. I draw him from THAT DAY,… each figure, every gesture, the folds of the uniform, the shadows on their faces, even the insignias, they are all pulled from the real event. That is the only way to preserve the truth and the weight of it.
. My art must carry the energy, the symbols, and the style of the actual moment.. not a fiction, but a reflection.
There is a certain dignity and power in working this way. When people look at the cartoon, they must feel: “Yes..that is exactly how it happened.” The buttons, the boots, the posture of command..all are deliberate. These images are not satire detached from its subject..they are fused to it.
The eye must catch what the camera captured, but the hand must translate it into meaning.
