June 2010 - Argghhh!

I wonder what's his MOS? Boq

Old Blue of Afghanquest has supped here at the Castle now and again when he drops in to Fort Leavenworth to talk COIN with the people who run the COIN Center here at the Combined Arms Center. This non-commissioned officer, who has multiple tours in Afghanistan, working hand-in-hand with Afghan security forces, tells Colonels what works and what doesn't. And they listen.He talks the talk, walks the walk, and eats and sleeps COIN day in and day out. In ways that others do not. He doesn't write...

A memo from the 'Stan in which Heartless Libertarian thanks a Congresswoman for her well-considered assistance...This one's been bugging me for a while... there was a story in the Stars & Stripes a few days ago, the day the peace jirga started, that one of our busybody Congresscritters (female D from MD, I forget the name) [I couldn't find a story in the Stripes online, but I believe HL is referring to Representative Donna Edwards. -the Armorer] was propounding that any political...

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From Herodotus: "The Trausi in all else resemble the other Thracians, but have customs at births and deaths which I will now describe. When a child is born all its kindred sit round about it in a circle and weep for the woes it will have to undergo now that it is come into the world, making mention of every ill that fa...lls to the lot of humankind; when, on the other hand, a man has died, they bury him with laughter and rejoicings, and say that now he is free from a host of sufferings, and...

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The Euro-Left press, just keeps piling it on. RT.com , a Russian T.V. network with wide viewership all throughout Europe, has published a hit piece on our armed forces...