My comments for today’s show and those for the following three weeks will address the decision made by our Executive Branch to place women in close combat units. Each of these comments will be placed in my blog after the show is aired. I hope you...
Since our military is about to have its combat ability severely weakened by placing women in close combat units, it’s worth knowing what the training is (at least in the Army) that we’re talking about. Currently, the US Army has certain enlisted...
Elected officials seem to need to do something, even if it’s wrong, in response to the Sandy Hook massacre. The leading thing now seems to be a limit on capacity (number of rounds held) for rifle and pistol magazines. Both the NY State legislature...
I was asked to be guest on a friend’s radio show today; he wanted to talk about Americans being armed. He knows that I feel that a major part of America’s defense strategy is an armed citizenry–A senior Japanese general during WWII...
Our nation is in a big tizzy at the moment about gun control. We go through this periodically when a tragedy occurs—and I think that’s somewhat normal. A tragedy should shake us up. The issue is gun control. How much control should the government...
“Liberals rarely weigh the consequences of their actions” A reporter in NY State published the home addresses of licensed gun owners in several counties in NY. At first I was upset at this violation of privacy, but after thinking about his...
As a proud Vietnam alumni of the 101st Airborne Division, I really enjoy telling this story. By the end of 1944 in WWII the Germans were losing in Europe—but they weren’t defeated yet. In Dec they launched a surprise attack on the 101st—that was...
War is hell, it has been said, but apparently we’re working hard to make it nice. A Marine general who court-martialed a sergeant for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters and posing for pictures with them in Afghanistan will scale back...
The US has been a major player in Asia and Southeast Asia since at least WWII. Yet on 20 Nov it was announced that 15 Asian nations, who, by the way, compose half the world’s population, are forming a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership...
There have been lots of little things that have indicated that, at least in the Army, our senior officers are not as good as our troops deserve. The 4-star commander of US Africa Command, a couple of years ago, was relieved for spending lots of...