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Women in the Iraqi Army

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...

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The Pentagon’s QDR

The Pentagon creates a Quadrennial Defense Review–to look forward and provide the basis for planning; it’s just out. The focus is on defeating the bad guys in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that region of the world. It also mentions Iran...

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Commander releived

The word is out that last week in Afghanistan an Army battalion commander and his command sergeant major were releived for “poor judgment that created a command climate inconsistent with the army values.” I really hope that this is a...

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The way of the future in Afghanistan

On 12 Jan in Afghanistan there was a protest against the government during which things got violent and the local school was burned down in the village of Garmsir. US Marines were present but did not interfere at all, as no lives were threatened...

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The Pentagon’s report on Fort Hood

The Pentagon released their 86-page report on what happened at Fort Hood when the radical-Islamist Army major decided to shoot and kill as many Americans as he could. The report didn’t find room to mention that the major was a known member of...

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Political Correctness strikes again

A just released Defense Dept review of the Fort Hood shooting has found that, in my opinion, political correctness was the primary cause for the shooting. It seems that the army doctors who oversaw Major Hasan’s medical training repeatedly...

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Sheep for peace

In Afhganistan’s Aghdis Province a Spanish government team provided aid to 20 families of terrorists who had decided to lay down their weapons and cooperate with the Afgan government. Provided to the families were supplies such as sheep, rice...

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Shocking

President Obama’s national security adviser, retired marine general Jim Jones, told us that the president’s statements today would be shocking. Having heard the president’s talk I heard only one shocking thing–this is the...

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Our European Allies

We all know that the media tells us that President Obama’s charm has the world respecting us again. We all know, too, that he’s been pressing all these countries that like us so much now to provide some military help in Iraq and Afghanistan. Well...

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Winning in Afghanistan

On 14 Dec the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mullen said that the insurgents “have a dominant influence in 11 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces.”br /Further, they are becoming more effective at using IEDs and small-unit tactics. Mullen said that...

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