General Stanley McChrystal, top guy in Afghanistan, was summoned to the White House with some splainin to do after an incendiary piece appeared in Rolling Stone in which the general and his aides criticized the US ambassador to Afghanistan, as … Continue reading →
Time was that, whatever one thought of Israeli IDF forces and the policies behind them, nearly everyone agreed that they were super-competent. In security and counter-terrorist operations in particular, they were skillful and tough, and feared by their enemies. Remember … Continue reading →
It’s Memorial Day. Time for picnics and get-togethers. Time, also, for remembrance of those who sacrificed their lives in American’s wars. This post by Gerard Vanderleun at American Digest offers a poignant poem in honor of a high school acquaintance … Continue reading →
Seems there’s a rash of military impostors, although this one certainly differs in kind and degree from the Blumenthal case: A Texas man with no military experience managed to trick the Army into letting him enter a reserve unit as … Continue reading →
Democratic senatorial candidate Richard Blumenthal has succumbed to an occupational hazard of boomer political candidates: alluding to some details of military service that turn out to be a lie. In Blumenthal’s case, his Vietnam-era stint was in a Washington DC … Continue reading →
The Lieberman proposal to strip terrorists who are Americans of citizenship rights has a great many critics. That is not surprising, since the idea appears at first glance to be a fairly radical one. Here’s a typical critique, taken from … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Yesterday and today represent the 30th anniversary of the Carter administration’s ill-fated Iranian hostage rescue attempt. Four years ago I wrote the following post about it. It feels appropriate for a variety of reasons—and not just the anniversary—to revisit … Continue reading →
There’s a new thrill on the roller coaster ride that is the Barack Obama presidency: “Obama limits when US would use nuclear arms” [emphasis mine in the following excerpt]: President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy … Continue reading →
The buzz is that President Obama will finally announce his Afghanistan decision on December 1, and that the magic number of troops sent will be 34,000. If so (and I must emphasize that this information is based on anonymous leaks, … Continue reading →
Now comes the news that President Obama has rejected all “of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team.” Instead, he wants to clarify the exit strategy first, and turn over responsibility to an Afghan government that he … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a slightly-edited repost of an article originally written in 2005. This year, however, the celebration of Veterans Day is especially poignant, given two realities: (1) the Ft. Hood shooting and the politically correct inability of the military … Continue reading →
Michelle Malkin has
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