President Obama has appointed Arif Alikhan a devout Sunni Muslim to assistant secretary for the Office of Policy Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Alikhan was instrumental in taking down the LA Police Department’s plan to monitor its Muslim...
It’s “so far, so good” in Iraq since US combat forces withdrew from the country’s cities and towns, Army Gen. Raymond Odierno said. Iraqi troops and police are manning checkpoints and stations by themselves. Baghdad and Kirkuk have seen bomb...
The sky lit up, but it was fireworks, not bombings, that colored the Baghdad skyline late Monday night as thousands of Iraqis partied in a park where singers performed patriotic songs. This is the day that Iraqis assume full responsibility for there...
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)...
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...
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 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...
Graded category #2. We are at war and must win. Plan to exploit success in Iraq. The bravery and blood of our brave warriors has purchased for the world and for the nation two Mideastern nations, Iraq and Afghanistan, which are not dominated by...
I’ve been reading a lot of websites as I evaluate the various candidates for president. I’ll be issuing the Colonels Report Card on these candidates on 13 Jan–just before the Michigan Presidential Primary Election on the 15th...
Every report I can get from the folks on the ground in Iraq indicates that there has been a sudden shift in the environment of the battlefield.While many of the native Iraqi are uneducated, they’re not stupid. They do know who it is that is trying...