Iraq, Obama and The Surge

Obama has now announced the end of combat operations in Iraq.  But following plans set in motion even before Obama took office, troop reductions are...

Marines Posture Over Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle

The Orange County Register has an interesting article on the next U.S. Marine Corps installment of their defense of the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle...

Shift in Theological Landscape in Afghanistan

From The Guardian comes what I see as a very important story, one that goes well beyond anecdotal stories about children, schools, the treatment and w...

America Burns, Government Chases Baseball

Roger Clemens is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court.  He will likely enter a not guilty plea.  I would too, as the government’s case p...

Concerning Military Contractors

Hamid Karzai has ordered the disbanding of military contractors in Afghanistan.  I had written and asked Tim Lynch for his reaction, and he gives it...

Marine Corps Commandant Faults Withdrawal Deadline for Comfort to the Enemy

U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Conway has directly faulted President Obama’s withdrawal deadline for giving aid and comfort to the enemy in Afghan...

Pakistan’s Games of Duplicity Part II

I maintain that other than the names of Afghans cooperating with the coalition (a dangerous public revelation), the Wikileaks publication of the so-c...

Why Marines in Afghanistan Want the Taliban to Open Fire

Dan Morrison with KVAL.com reports from an embed with the Marines in Helmand: HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan – 1st Platoon, off to our west, made...

Pakistan ISI Elevates Internal Threats Above India?

We have all followed the quaint Pakistani obsession with India as an existential threat.  Stolid, dark, conspiratorial and pathological though it is...

Going Soft on Kandahar

Recall from several months ago that operations were launched into Marjah, and the “government in a box” that General McChrystal thought wo...