A good friend of mine who's in the Air Force sent me this e-mail that has been making the rounds in military circles from SSgt. Parker Gyokeres. Hello all, Good lord what a week. I'm going to remember the 14th of December for a very long time. This marshy valley region is the area of […]
Time magazine names "The American Soldier" its Person of the Year. It's an honor well-deserved.
What's going on with the copy desk over at The New York Times? An article on Friday about the views of L. Paul Bremer III, the American administrator in Iraq, about the country's future misstated the weight of the bombs that United States forces have dropped recently on sites believed to harbor urban guerrillas. They […]
Lt. Col. Allen West will likely face some sort of administrative punishment, not a court-martial. Mr. Puckett said he was informed yesterday by the division's judge advocate that the hearing officer, Lt. Col. Jimmy Davis, recommended what is called Article 15 punishment, not a trial. Under this procedure, Col. West would appear before Gen. Odierno. […]
President Bush snuck off to Iraq yesterday to eat Thanksgiving dinner with the troops at the Baghdad International Airport. Read his speech here.
The U.S. Army is prosecuting Lt. Col. Allen B. West for threatening to shoot an Iraqi policeman who was conspiring with insurgents to ambush U.S. troops. The smart thing for the Army to do in this case, is to put a letter in his file, let him ride a desk for a couple of weeks […]
America's most-advanced tank, the M1A1 Abrams was disabled by some sort of RPG. I say "some sort of RPG" because officials aren't sure exactly what it was that hit the tank on patrol in Iraq. One armor expert at Fort Knox, Ky., suggested the tank may have been hit by an updated RPG. About 15 […]
It appears that Democrat presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark had better position himself as being the kind of military guy liberals who hate the military can vote for, because he isn't going to get the military vote. From the Los Altos Town Crier report on an appearance by former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of […]
Frederick Forsyth has a good article on why the doctrine of pre-emptive war has become necessary in the wake of 9/11. Until the mid-1990s, terrorists always wanted something. The IRA wanted a united Ireland, the ETA wanted a separate Basque state, the PFLP wanted a Palestinian state and the extirpation of Israel, the Tamil Tigers […]