There are some apparently serious problems going on at the US Naval Academy; I’ll be addressing those over time. However, last month, when the Class of 09 graduated commissioned officers in attendance were prohibited from wearing their uniform...
Iraq is moving closer to establishing sovereign national and provincial judiciaries, as evidenced with the June 13 opening of Ramadi’s Anbar Judicial Complex. “A nation’s development depends on the respect for the sovereignty of the law,” Anbar...
KABUL – 9 June, in Helmand, in 2 separate helicopter-borne strikes, around 450 troops from The Black Watch, 3rd Bn, The Royal Regt of Scotland, and 100 Afgan soldiers, found and destroyed more than 5500 kg of opium paste in a large and well...
Military intelligence officials have quietly told Congress they advised against transferring 25 of the 60 Guantanamo Bay terror detainees deemed eligible for relocation by the Obama administration, including five who are considered to be highly...
Training planes remained grounded at Vance Air Force Base, Okalahoma, on Wednesday as a strike continued between union workers and the base’s major contractor and 3 subcontractors.br /US Sen. Jim Inhofe, who traveled to Vance to help with...
The US military has released a senior member of a deadly terror group backed by Iran that has been directly implicated in the kidnapping and murder of five US soldiers in Karbala in early 2007. Laith al Qazali was freed last weekend “as part...
Ralph Peters recently wrote that the most troubling aspect of international security for the US is not the killing power of our enemies, which remains modest in historical terms, but our increasingly effete view of warfare. The greatest advantage...
South Korean and U.S. troops facing North Korea are now at their highest alert category since 2006, after the communist regime threatened to attack any US or South Korean ships that try to intercept its vessels looking for banned nuclear exports...
One of the things the war in Iraq and Afghanistan has done is to cause American military personnel to work outside their normal military specialty. An example is the Air Force has sought and found airmen to volunteer for Security Forces, or SECFOR...
It’s pretty clear that if North Korea decided to take offensive action against anyone, the US couldn’t do much to stop them. While few of our military folks are willing to talk about specific options, our overcommitted US military will find it...