Going Rogue in Combat Boots
Here's a bit of cheery news: Last week, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates met with the nation's top defense company executives, including the CEOs of those mega-military-industrial combines Lockheed Martin and Boeing, and called for a "closer partnership." He also...
Politics Gets in the Way of Obama’s Perceptiveness
President Barack Obama recently expressed a reluctance to send U.S. forces to Yemen and Somalia, two "failed states" where al-Qaeda is active. Obama seemed to realize that such a U.S. military presence might make the terrorism problem worse. If he...
The War at Home
It's been grimly amusing to watch the liberal mainstream media spin the murder spree at Ft. Hood. They are trying mightily to pretend it was all about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's inner psychological turmoil, given his job as an Army psychiatrist whose task it was to...
Obama Still Doesn’t Grasp Blowback
Although President Barack Obama has more empathy for the opinions of the Islamic world than his predecessor and seems to vaguely understand that they do affect U.S. security, he doesn't seem to understand specifically that U.S. meddling in and occupation of Muslim...
Who’s Next? Lessons From the Long War and a Blowback World
Is it too early – or already too late – to begin drawing lessons from "the Long War"? That phrase, coined in 2002 and, by 2005, being championed by CENTCOM Commander Gen. John Abizaid, was meant to be a catchier name for George W. Bush's "Global War on Terror." That...
Saving Face and Losing Lives
This past week there has been a lot of discussion and debate on the continuing war in Afghanistan. Lasting twice as long as World War II and with no end in sight, the war in Afghanistan has been one of the longest conflicts in which our country has ever been involved....
Lessons of 9/11 Still Unlearned
A week ago marked the 8-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States. As we should on each and every Sept. 11, we remembered all those who lost their lives on that fateful day, as well as those who responded to the tragedy. At Arlington...
