On Wednesday, March 5, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution (HR 951) condemning Palestinian rocket attacks that include a strident defense of recent Israeli tactics in the Gaza Strip. The resolution also condemned Iran and Syria for "sponsoring...
Dear fellow Obama-maniacs, Okay, I'm coming out of the closet, and admitting I'm one of you. There, I can say it, at last, out loud and proud: I'm a conservative-paleo-libertarian with a man-crush on Obama. Whew! What a relief! Now that I've got that off my chest, I...
As the Obama-Clinton primary tussle threatens to go right through, perhaps, November 2010, the political news is everywhere: The superdelegates are "feeling the pressure"; those 795 nabobs of the Democratic Party, once meant in part as a brake against a popular...
Iraq, where women once had more rights and freedom than most others in the Arab world, has turned deadly for women who dream of education and a professional career. Former dictator Saddam Hussein maintained a relatively secular society, where it was common for women...
Updated at 5:20 p.m. EST, Mar. 7, 2008Today, Mosul was the scene of multiple bombings just as Baghdad was recovering from yesterday's major bombing in Karrada. Overall, at least 27 Iraqis were killed and 33 more were wounded across the country. No Coalition deaths...
On February 4, President Bush announced a baseline military budget of $515.4 billion for the next fiscal year, not including funds for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is the largest one-year Pentagon request in real, uninflated dollars since World War II....
Updated at 12:55 a.m. EST, Mar. 6, 2008Turkey staged an air attack in northern Iraq, just days after pulling back from a major incursion targeting Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels. Meanwhile, the police chief implemented an emergency security plan in Basra....
Maybe it sounded good when politicians, pundits, and online fundraisers talked about American deaths as though they were the deaths that mattered most. Maybe it sounded good to taunt the Bush administration as a bunch of screw-ups who didn't know how to run a proper...
One of several dead hands the First Generation of Modern War lays on contemporary state militaries' throats is linearity. Most state militaries both seek and expect linearity on and off the battlefield. Sometimes, this manifests itself in tactics that offer...
We Israelis live in a world of ghosts and monsters. We do not conduct a war against living persons and real organizations, but against devils and demons which are out to destroy us. It is a war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness, between absolute good...
