January 2, 2008

Don't Count Your Victories Before They're Won

The war in Iraq is not over or waning. In many ways the false idea that the war is won is far more dangerous than the defeatist ideas of the last year ever were.

November 11, 2007

A Soldier's Sacrifice (a poem)

This poem is dedicated to Sergeant Aaron C. Elandt, who fell in battle on 30 May 2004, as well as to the millions of American Fighters who paid and are paying for our freedom with their lives and sprits.

June 4, 2007

Why the Surge Is Working, Yet More Americans are Dying

If the surge in Iraq is showing signs of success, are so many Americans dying over the last two months? It comes down to the old real estate saying, location, location, location.

May 31, 2007

Global Warming Hysteria is a National Security Issue

Recently in the news several retired US generals, came out in favor of using defense resources for fighting the effects of global warming.

May 25, 2007

Congress in Wonderland

The children's book Alice In Wonderland, tells a charming story of a girl trying to make sense of a senseless imaginary world. Our national defense seems to be caught in an oddly similar story, which is, unfortunately, not a harmless imagined child's story, and not at all charming.

May 23, 2007

There's no human decency left in the media

I was shocked and brought to tears when I saw flashed on a TV screen the news that one of the missing soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division who has been missing for almost two weeks may have been found dead,

May 14, 2007

The Missing Context in Media Reporting on Iraq

The US mainstream media are failing to provide the public the context it needs to accurately understand both the successes of our progress in Iraq.

May 8, 2007

Who is to blame for Greensburg's slow response?

The Governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, is blaming the lack of some military equipment that is deployed to Iraq as hampering the Greensburg Kansas disaster recovery effort.

May 5, 2007

America! Why have you abandoned us?

My fellow Americans; what have the American Fighting men and women done to cause you to abandon them in a foreign land, surrounded by sinister people that are bent on killing them and all Americans?

May 5, 2007

Trouble for the National Guard?

I bet most haven't seen this good news for the war effort reported in the major media; but it seems that someone forgot to tell the National Guard that we have lost the War.

May 2, 2007

Media Target: The US Military

The US military, the last bastion of creditability in the war, is now the primary target of the media and the enemies of the war. Almost like a plan.

April 23, 2007

Longer Deployments, Shorter War

Deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan are too short, and need to be longer. Deployments of 24-36 months or even longer would be one way to address our problems in those wars.

April 17, 2007

When the money runs out (Update)

On 2 April, 2007 I warned that if Congress did not pass funding by the 15th of April that the Army would have to start cutting back operations. Now Reuters is reporting that the cutbacks are starting.

April 16, 2007

Whatever Happened to "Duty, Honor, Country"?

General Douglas MacArthur in his final address given to the Corps of Cadets at West Point on May 12, 1962 spoke these words that every officer in the military knows by heart

April 11, 2007

Where are the transcripts?

Where are the transcripts of the dialogue between House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad?

April 2, 2007

When the money runs out

Now that Congress has passed the Iraq Accountability Act, one of the best questions that I have heard is: "when will the lack of funds start hurting the troops?"

February 24, 2007

The enemy has a vote

This past week some Democrats have been taking about dictating the conduct of the war in Iraq to the President.