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...
There are no plans to deploy US ground troops to Pakistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today, this despite concerns over increasing violence between Pakistani troops and Taliban militants.br /Pakistan’s military continues to fight...
President Obama seems to be considering sending more National Guard troops to keep order along the US.-Mexican border as drug-related violence increases in northern Mexico, DoD spokesmen said Friday.br /br /The governors of Arizona and Texas have...
Dept of Homeland Security Napolitano continues to demonstrate amazing incompetence. Her latest demonstration came when she wrongly claimed this week that the 9/11 terrorists came through Canada to launch the attack, even though not one of the...
The Global War on Terror (GWOT) is over according to President Obama; now our troops are serving on Overseas Contingency Operations. Actually the GWOT was a misnomer; we weren’t and aren’t fighting terror–we’re fighting the...