June 2010 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

WAR

I was on vacation last week and I took along a copy of "War" by Sebastian Junger. "War" is the book that is the (sort of) companion to the documentary "Restrepo" by Junger and Tim Hetherington. As far as war books are concerned...

Published Wed, Jun 23 2010 2:16 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Books, Film

RESTREPO - CHICAGO June 27th

A reminder for those folks near Chicago that "Restrepo", the documentary about Battle Company, 2nd/503rd, 173rd AIRBORNE in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan will be shown on Sunday, June 27th, at 7pm (1900) at Piper's Alley in the Old...

Published Wed, Jun 23 2010 1:04 AM by BLACKFIVE

Second-Day Information on the Rolling Stone Article

Shadow Government has an analysis of the piece, that he thinks explains how the Rolling Stone author got access to the general and his staff: If you read the Rolling Stone article carefully, you can see that the reporter, Michael Hastings, has woven three...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 9:37 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Current Affairs, Bust Their Chops

Some Good News To Share

There is a press release going out today that I wanted to share here as well. Cooking with the Troops is pleased to announce that Congressman Jim Marshall (D, 8th District GA) has joined it's National Advisory Board. Congressman Marshall is well known...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 9:07 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Zombies and the Unknown Unknown

A worthy article from Foreign Policy, on zombies. This zombie boom is -- and should be -- taken seriously. For some international relations thinkers, the interest in all things ghoulish might represent an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 12:32 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs, Military Humor

If McChrystal goes, Eikenberry & Holbroke must follow

The two biggest obstacles to success in dealing w/ the Afghan govt, and consequently with our chances of success w/ the war there are Amb. Eikenberry and Special Envoy Holbrooke. When Obama took over the first thing he and his brain trust decided was...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 8:18 AM by BLACKFIVE

Someone Broke The Rules - THAT Broke McCrystal

It's been a long time since I've posted, but given recent events, I must come back online and throw in (throw down?). With McCrystal likely going to resign this week (we are still working to confirm the UK's Telegraph article) or be kicked...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 8:10 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Current Affairs, Caring For The Defenders, Bust Their Chops, Weblogs

Afghanistan Policy Review

It has become increasingly clear to me that we have a failure of leadership in Afghanistan. Obama has failed by not articulating to us, and to the military, what his desired end state should look like. A democratic state with equal rights for women? One...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 8:05 AM by BLACKFIVE

Unhinged

No, not Michelle Malkin's excellent book, Mike Yon on Gordon Liddy's show yesterday. Wow! For the record I am going to fore go commenting on Mike's many brushes with breaking embed rules, because honestly I don't have time to investigate...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 2:59 AM by BLACKFIVE

Looks Like Yon Was Right

Not to necessarily (ok, necessarily) pile on here, but from the Rolling Stones article "The Runaway General": Even though he had voted for Obama, McChrystal and his new commander in chief failed from the outset to connect. A large part of leadership...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 2:47 AM by BLACKFIVE

Stan the Man

After reading McQ's post, LW's post, the Mudville Gazette and most importantly COB6's post at the Farm Team's place, I was going to write about how light I thought GEN McChrystal's comments to be...but Grim, as usual, got ahead of...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 2:23 AM by BLACKFIVE

Daily Brief 22 Jun 2010

Image: USS Harry S. Truman at sea Video: Terrorists infiltrating the U.S. through Mexico Part 1 | Part 2 U.S.: Times Square bomber pleads guilty, calls it 'war' U.S. gave millions to charity linked to al Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki Supreme Court uphold...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 12:26 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

The 'no-no' line

I know LW has covered it, but I thought I'd pitch in with my own 2 cents as well.I'm not sure what was going through Gen. Stanley McChrystal or his staff's minds when they were interviewed for an article in Rolling Stone, but if the quotes...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 12:14 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

And Who Thought This Would Be A Good Idea?

The news this morning is that General McChrystal has both issued a preemptory apology for a forthcoming article/interview in Rolling Stone Magazine, and that he has been recalled from Afghanistan -- apparently because of what is being reported may be...

Published Mon, Jun 21 2010 10:53 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Afghanistan - Strategy (C.O.I.N.) Vs. Tactics

Sometimes tactics inform the strategy (if you have particular tactics that create a strategic advantage), but usually it is the strategy that drives the tactics. In Foreign Policy, there is a good write up of why the British methods didn't work. We...

Published Mon, Jun 21 2010 2:21 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

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