Our troops in Iraq have found that including at least one woman with every group that may have to search or interrogate female Iraqi citizens is a very good idea. Taking things a step further, the Marines created some all-female teams (3-5 women)...
Terrorist groups as well as foreign governments have increasingly attempted, with some succes, to purchase sensitive dual-use and military technology from American companies–this in a US Government report.br /Taliban fighters in Afghanistan...
I teach American Government at the local Community College. I always teach the Constitution. It’s very, very clear that our nation and its government are not even close to being in line with our own Constitution. The driving force behind Tea Parties...
Early last May Philip Mudd, a veteran intelligence officer who has worked for the CIA and the FBI, was nominated to be undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security. He is well qualified. In June Mudd withdrew...
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...
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...
The bad guys in Afghanistan, fighting in one of the poorest and most remote regions on earth, continue to conduct intensive war against the better armed and equipped US amp; Afghan forces.br /Here’s one, fairly obvious explanation of how they get...
I fear, with the new administration’s people-to-people (or, let’s talk with everyone) approach to things international (like war), we have forgotten a basic definition that I learned many years ago at West Point; the objective of warfare is to...
US Rep Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, earlier this month released a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair and CIA Director Leon Panetta requesting that the CIA’s Memoranda for the...