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Russia Sends Chilly Signals To New Administration

Russia certainly had a golden opportunity to help to cool recent tensions with the U.S. by sending some positive signals to the new incoming administration, but instead used the opportunity to ratchet up tensions with a threat to station short...

Posted on November 8, 2008 9:05 AM

A Constructive View On Russia Required From The Candidates

The remaining presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain will need to offer some sort of constructive foreign policy to deal with the new Russian government of President Dmitry Medvedev at some point. Medvedev has never held elective office before,...

Posted on May 7, 2008 6:22 PM

Bush Rather Spend $35 Billion For This Than Children's Health Care

George Bush has found something new and absurd to spend $35 billion on rather than making the big tobacco industry pay $35 billion in taxes to expand children's health care. The Bush White House is pushing for $35 billion in...

Posted on October 15, 2007 9:00 AM

Bush Administration Never Planned For "Victory" In Iraq

President Bush will announce some cutbacks to pre-surge levels of U.S. troops in Iraq in his address to the nation. But the reality is that with the huge strains on the all-volunteer army, there was never any way in which...

Posted on September 12, 2007 3:00 PM

Ahmadinejad Counters The VFW Speech By Bush With Iran's Own Muscle

Today in a speech to the VFW convention in Reno, Nevada, President Bush may have again talked tough about Iran and their nuclear program. And new French President Nicolas Sarkozy even hinted at a possible Western attack against Iran's nuclear...

Posted on August 29, 2007 1:00 PM

Four Landmark Events In The Iraq Failure

I've written so extensively about Iraq since the start of the 2003 war that I can cite four major landmark events that helped to doom the effort as a complete failure. Washington certainly could have avoided any of these...

Posted on August 23, 2007 12:17 PM

Russian Long-Range Bombers Challenging Close To U.S. Territory

Russia's air force is engaged in a new and alarming pattern of provocative military exercises by flying long range bombers with live cruise missiles very close to U.S. territory in Alaska and Guam according to both American and Canadian defense...

Posted on August 14, 2007 3:00 PM

The Final Frontier: The Weaponization Of Space

As the U.S. struggles in a low tech war in Iraq, military contractors, scientists and Pentagon experts work diligently on the next possible war, this time to be fought from outer space. And even as a gentleman's agreement has existed...

Posted on August 6, 2007 5:34 PM

Reservist Called Up for FIFTH Time

Miami Herald story: Erik Botta believes he's done right by his country. Days after 9/11, as a young Army reservist, he volunteered to go to war. He was soon in Afghanistan. The next year, he was sent out again, this...

Posted on July 10, 2007 10:00 AM

Army Misses Recruiting Goal 2nd Month in a Row

This isn't surprising at all... The U.S. Army, strained by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, missed its recruiting goal for the second straight month in June, indicating a trend that some defense officials on Monday called worrying. The Army will...

Posted on July 9, 2007 6:56 PM

Surge Complete -- What Will be the Next Excuse?

Reuters story: Gates flew into Baghdad for an unannounced visit to assess a U.S. troop build-up aimed at buying leaders of Iraq's ethnic and religious groups more time to reach a political accommodation and press the government to move faster...

Posted on June 15, 2007 6:00 PM

Pentagon Plans 24 Forts in Africa

Esquire story: A few years ago, with little fanfare, the United States opened a base in the horn of Africa to kill or capture Al Qaeda fighters. By 2012, the Pentagon will have two dozen such forts. The story of...

Posted on June 12, 2007 6:00 PM

Donated Body Armor Sits Unused in Iraq

Buffalo News story: The body armor that West Seneca's American Legion Post 735 bought for Marines in Iraq is gathering dust somewhere in dusty Anbar province, thanks to Marine Corps orders preventing its use. And the local Legionnaires who spent...

Posted on June 11, 2007 6:00 PM

Keep Re-arranging Those Deck Chairs!

MSNBC story: Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he has decided to replace the chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff rather than have them go through contentious renomination hearings before Congress. Speaking to reporters, and referring...

Posted on June 8, 2007 2:00 PM

More Military Family Values

CBS News story: A New Hampshire National Guard member charged with desertion while trying to get custody of her daughter planned to turn herself in Tuesday at Fort Dix, her lawyer said. Spc. Lisa Hayes, 32, of Rindge, left at...

Posted on June 6, 2007 11:15 PM

"Don't sell it on eBay..."

Crooks and Liars story: Why Compassionate Conservatism is a lie--example-53987 Chicago Tribune: (h/t bascombe) Several mothers who have lost children at war in Iraq took part in a new talk show today on National Public Radio. One of them, Elaine...

Posted on June 4, 2007 2:00 PM

Amputees Returned to Combat

HuffPo story: In the blur of smoke and blood after a bomb blew up under his Humvee in Iraq, Sgt. Tawan Williamson looked down at his shredded leg and knew it couldn't be saved. His military career, though, pulled...

Posted on May 31, 2007 6:00 PM

No More Individual Services for Ft. Lewis Troops

The Olympian story: Fort Lewis, which this month has suffered its worst losses of the war, will no longer conduct individual memorial ceremonies for soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, the post will hold one ceremony for all soldiers...

Posted on May 31, 2007 4:00 PM

Lessons Forgotten From Iwo Jima

This Memorial Day weekend it is very good to reflect on an important past successful military campaign for the U.S. and understand why it succeeded and the war in Iraq is clearly failing by comparison. Iwo Jima had a Japanese...

Posted on May 27, 2007 9:35 AM

US Military Responsible for Huge Fire in New Jersey

Daily News commentary: I wish I was making that headline up: A massive wildfire that has already burned thousands of acres in the Pinelands and forced the evacuation of residents in two towns likely started this afternoon when an F-16...

Posted on May 17, 2007 7:01 PM

War Without Limits

Boston.com story: Sometimes it seems as if the country has fallen into a high-stakes, all-consuming global conflict, and sometimes it seems that nothing has changed at all. In the war on terrorism, American soldiers and intelligence agents are active on...

Posted on May 14, 2007 5:00 PM

Surge to Run at Least Until '08

Washington Post story: The Pentagon announced yesterday that 35,000 soldiers in 10 Army combat brigades will begin deploying to Iraq in August as replacements, making it possible to sustain the increase of U.S. troops there until at least the end...

Posted on May 9, 2007 3:07 PM

Destroying the Hearts and Minds of America

from Andrew Sullivan: More than one-third of U.S. soldiers in Iraq surveyed by the Army said they believe torture should be allowed if it helps gather important information about insurgents, the Pentagon disclosed yesterday. Four in 10 said they approve...

Posted on May 8, 2007 2:34 PM

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