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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Chicago screening of Restrepo

    There is an advance screening of the award-winning documentary Restrepo scheduled for Chicago on the 27th of June at 7 pm. we have been authorized to invite any Chicago area readers who want to attend. You are invited to a special sneak preview screening...

  • Afghanistan riches- Lithium for all my friends

    Some of whom could really use it. But as it turns out there are apparently huge mineral deposits in Afghanistan including lithium which is extra valuable given the proliferation of battery powered devices. This is also awesome news for conspiracy theorists...

  • Blackwater founder moving to UAE

    Hmmm. Jeremy Scahill, who is a one man anti-Blackwater team reports that the founder of BW Erik Prince is moving to the UAE and Scahill posits this might be due to its lack of an extradition treaty with us. Sources close to Blackwater and its secretive...

  • Happy Birthday to the US Army

    235 years young and hardly looks a day over two centuries. I have said before that our military is one of the great forces for good ever on this planet and the Army has a huge role in that. A big Hooah to all those wearing the uniform now and to those...

  • WikiLeaks begging for change

    And not the Obama kind, the help, help I'm being repressed and have to hide kind. WikiLeaks may be under attack. Good, how can I help. I mean w/ the attack. I mean to help attack you banditos of ass. One of our alleged sources, a young US intelligence...

  • War and Remembrance

    Mary Katharine Ham recently took a trip to Iraq along w/ ret. COL Tom Manion who went there to meet some Iraqis who his son 1LT Travis Manion had trained. Unfortunately Travis caught a sniper round while pulling some other Marines to safety, but as the...

  • Ideologues and COIN

    Crush points out, while nodding sagely in agreement, a piece by COL Gian Gentile bemoaning the idea that an insurgency should be fought using a counterinsurgency strategy. I think it bears a look at COL Gentile and his deep and abiding distaste for COIN...

  • Daily Brief 28 Jun 2010

    Image of the day: 60 years ago - Korean Firefight Afghanistan: Karzai reportedly meets with al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network to negotiate - Pakistan's army and intel chiefs also present 9 years in, U.S. finally tries to get a grip on warzone contractors...
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  • So what's going to change in Afghanistan?

    On Wednesday, I received an email from one of my former soldiers in the 101st in Afghanistan who wanted to know, if GEN McChrystal was fired (2) who was his replacement and (3) what would change in Afghanistan. My response was (1) his resignation was...

  • Good Transitions Save Lives

    Readers understand that I am disappointed to see how the President chose to handle this situation, although he was well within his rights and enumerated powers to make the choice he did. One overriding concern I had about replacing the commanding general...

  • Very Interesting...

    I've been reading at Cassy Fiano's place, and on some of the news outlets, about a couple trying to enter McDill. I am truly shocked that Eric Holder or the FBI rush to deny it was terrorism even before anything was known (as usual). That said...

  • 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...

  • Omaha

    This is a repost from last fall, of some photos I took last September. It's been 65 years, and a few months, since our troops went ashore at bloody Bloody Omaha. Far too many never made it fully onto the beach, much less off of it. Today, the view...
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