Paving the way for success in the Afghan New Year, the people of Paktika Province, heard the voice of their local government on radio, thanks to our troops. The province has 333 schools,br /with 10 under construction. Of these schools, 37 are closed...
There are a lot of interesting, if inaccurate, things going around the internet about the role of war and fighting in Islam. Most claim that Islam, regardless of it’s statements to the contrary, is absolutely not a religion of peace. It is...
If there ever was a year when every caring American needs to be, first, registered to vote, and, second, paying attention to issues and carefully examining candidates for office, this is that year. That the congress and president is considering...
Just when you think that nothing can get any dumber–you’re proven wrong. Defense Secretary Gates suggested today that some of our forces that were a part of the surge into Afghanistan could leave the country before the President’s...
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...
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...
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...
Yesterday I escorted a group of Michigan employers to the US Coast Guard Station at St. Ignace, MI. It’s right at the narrow straights that a great deal of ship traffic uses to move lots of cargo, 12 months a year. But it gets cold up there...
It turns out after the shooting at Fort Hood that there are other American Muslems who claim to be moderate that are training our military–and some of these folks have the same attitudes and relationships as did the traitor-major at Fort Hood...
A major breakthrough. In late January a group of 65 Iraqi women started army basic training; this is the same basic training that men take. One female soldier said that she had lost her husband and son in an explosion and needed a job so she could...