In late April the Japanese Ambassador to Iraq visited with Dhi Qar provincial leaders to discuss ways of administering Japan’s $5 billion aide program within the province. Specifically discussed were potential oil field development and...
This past Monday the Secretary of Defense announced that the future US Navy may well not have any submarines. It seems we can’t afford them. This while China (for sure) and Russia (maybe) are growing their sub fleets. Don’t you feel...
Let’s see. The Obama Administration has charged the Times Square Bomber with attempting to use a WMD. These same folks have previously claimed (while criticizing Bush) that Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) must be a working Nuclear, Chemical, or...
A terrorist tried to blow up a vehicle bomb in New York. Thankfully, the bomb didn’t go off and our great police have captured the guy who set the bomb. What a shock; he’s an Arab Muslim. He’s a soldier in the army of radical...
When members of the 2nd Bn, 503rd Infantry (Airborne) working to help the locals take control of the security environment in Kunnar Province in Afghanistan noted that the local police, national police, and national army didn’t really like...
Last week when I heard about the foolishness at Fort Knox, I thought it was the drugs I was still on. I knew nothing like this could happen in the US Army. But it did. According to the official response some unauthorized subordinate added the Tea...
I’ve been really quiet for the past week. Last Friday, 23 Apr, I got a new knee. Fifty years ago at West Point I made the last tackle of the last down of the last practice play–and tore a ligament. Now that knee is history. While I...
Today a military jury cleared a Navy SEAL of failing to prevent the beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding a 2004 attack that killed 4 American security contractors. The contractors’ burned bodies were dragged through the...
My good friend and fellow Vietnam Vet Bill Hardiman is running for Congress in Michigan’s 3rd District. I know Bill well and I share his values. I really appreciate that he talks the talk and walks the walk. I encourage everyone I know to...
I really don’t believe that this is still going on. Navy SEALs were sent to capture a terrorist who was the mastermind in the killing of 4 US private security constractors in 2004. They tracked him down and captured him. In the process he...