Imam Anwar al Awlaki is dead. He was killed because our government targeted him as an enemy. Let’s see; he held two key roles in the murky arena of international Jihadist terrorism. First, he was one of the emerging leaders of al Qaeda after we...
Korea, a former Japanese possession, had been divided into zones of occupation following WW II. US forces accepted the surrender of Japanese forces in southern Korea, while Soviet forces did the same in the north. Like in Germany, however, the...
North Korea fired artillery at South Korean troops conducting an exercise, killing two. The So Korean’s returned fire and scrambled some jets. So far nothing else has happened that we know of. No Korea is preparing for old dad to pass the...
I remember my first exposure to the M1 rifle; I was a 9th grader in the Glendale High School ROTC in California. I remember learning that the “US Rifle, Caliber 30, M1, is a semi-automatic, air cooled, gas operated, clip fed shoulder weapon.” It had...
Our nation has, since the end of World War II, had a two-war strategy. That is, we needed the men, equipment, and plans to conduct two wars at the same time, if necessary. This kept the bad guys from thinking that if we were tied up with combat...
Today’s headlines include the announcement that a US Navy destroyer is trailing a North Korean ship believed to be carrying nuclear material. The UN has asked us to stop and search such vessels. The North Korean dictator has said that such...
South Korean and U.S. troops facing North Korea are now at their highest alert category since 2006, after the communist regime threatened to attack any US or South Korean ships that try to intercept its vessels looking for banned nuclear exports...
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...