The Afgan military and police forces, working with NATO forces, had a lot of activity last week. While none of these events is really big, it’s the series of small discoveries that show that the local people are providing this information. As...
A few weeks ago I commented that the firearms murder rate had dropped across the country.br /This trend was in spite of, or, maybe, because of increased individual ownership of firearms.br /A couple specific items are emerging from the national...
It seems that even the Pentagon is beginning to understand that the two basic weapons for our troops in combat, the M-16 rifle and the 9mm pistol aren’t very good or effective. They don’t compare to what the enemy is using. Our larger...
From Secretary of Defense Gates down through the ranks, Pentagon officials are unhappy with the quality of work they’re receiving from the aerospace industry. So far the specifics are about missiles and target vehicles that don’t work...
General James Conway, Commandant of the Marine Corps, has made it clear that he doesn’t like the fact that the Marines have become a ‘second land army’ in the current war. He wants to return them to their expeditionary, door...
Taliban terrorists wearing suicide vests and carrying automatic rifles attacked a hotel and abr /guesthouse in central Kabul Friday. They killed at least 15 people. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said by phone that five bombers attacked two...
Earlier this month a NATO airstrike killed a number of civilians in Afghanistan; that was very unfortunate, but certainly not what was intended. So General McChrystal, the commander of US and Nato forces, took his apology for a weekend airstrike...
The administration’s efforts to end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach to dealing with homosexuals in the military are a bad idea that is meeting real resistance from the military chiefs of the services. The issue is...
There will be a Second Amendment March in Washington, D.C., on April 19, 2010, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Attendees will gather on the northeast corner of the Washington Monument grounds at 10:00 a.m. “to galvanize the courage and resolve of...
Marine recon teams were inserted by helicopter behind Taliban lines last Friday as the US-led force stepped up operations to break resistance in the besieged enemy stronghold of Marjah. The before-dawn insertion of about two dozen Marines was into...