While Europe Sleeps*…
…Putin doesn’t. Europe has long relied on the US to save it. But courtesy one Barack Obama, America is now trying to be more like Europe. [*NOTE: The title of this post is a twist on a combination of the … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Military
STRENGTH IS WEAKNESS, WEAKNESS IS STRENGTH
Scott Johnson writes the following about Obama’s recent statement “Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors, not out of strength, but out of weakness”: You have to wonder just how weak Russia is, in … Continue reading →
Slashing defense: tying his successors’ hands
This exactly coincides with my own opinion about the main motive behind Obama’s desire to drastically slash the military: Limiting the power his successors can wield is, for Obama, not just an unalloyed good idea but an imperative. Call it … Continue reading →
Hagel starts doing what he was hired for
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is set to announce the administration’s intent to make the biggest cuts in decades to the US military, returning it to its smallest size since 1940. I get tired of writing “this is no surprise.” … Continue reading →
Don’t mess with WWII vets
They may be old, but there’s life (and fight) in them yet.
Continue reading →One down…
…one to go: In a stealthy seaside assault in Somalia and in a raid in Libya’s capital, U.S. military forces on Saturday struck out against Islamic extremists who have carried out terrorist attacks in East Africa, snatching a man allegedly … Continue reading →
Poets of the right
British poet Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was a complicated man, like many poets. But unlike most of them these days, he was politically of the right, at least in some respects. Larkin wrote in forms, which is inherently conservative. But his … Continue reading →
Gun-free military zones
I’ve been wondering about the history of the restriction of weapons on military bases to MPs. Googling leads to the notion that it was a result of an order by President Clinton in 1993 (see also this). But that didn’t … Continue reading →
The Navy Yard killings and the gun control advocates
They don’t wait for facts to be known, because facts might ruin the narrative. So the news post-Navy Yard massacre has been filled with cries to ban semiautomatic rifles such as the AR-15, initially reported as having been the weapon … Continue reading →
PC thought runs amok…
…in the FBI and the military, no less. We already knew that Nidal Nassan, the Fort Hood shooter, had given plenty of notice of his impending act of violence and that it was ignored, apparently for PC reasons. But the … Continue reading →
Nidal Hassan sentenced to death
Thirteen senior Army officers have sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for carrying out the horrific 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood Army base. The panel’s recommendation will now go to a convening authority, the general responsible for assembling the … Continue reading →
Why telegraph an attack on Syria?
One of the odd things about Obama’s intentions on Syria is that the general plan has been leaked to the press. And unless it turns out be be a case of releasing incorrect information with the deliberate purpose of misleading … Continue reading →