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  • McChrystal Motivators

    Be sure to read Grim's post below on transitions. Come on, people. GEN McChrystal offers a unique opportunity for some really kick ass motivational posters. Send 'em to blackfive-AT-gmail-DOT-com. Here's a few that have come in so far: From...
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  • Bob Herbert redefines clueless on Afghanistan

    The NY Times publishes a lot of really dumb stuff, and a good percentage comes from Bob Herbert. Today he shows us that the best part of being a columnist for this dying rag is cluelessness is a feature not a bug. He could hardly know less about our war...

  • Book Review- The Lion by Nelson DeMille

    Elise Cooper for BLACKFIVE Nelson DeMille once again shows why he is America’s prolific political thriller author with his latest book, The Lion, a sequel to his best selling novel, The Lion’s Game. The reader will have a hard time deciphering fact from...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Daily Brief 11 Jun 2010

    Afghanistan: McChrystal says Kandahar operation to take longer than originally planned – due to local support of Taliban New plan to woo Taliban could harm villages NATO convoy drivers feel like traitors: “I ask myself all the time, why am I helping these...
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  • BLACKFIVE buys BLACKWATER

    Well not yet. Apparently Blackwater is for sale and Noah at Danger Room is holding a contest to see who should buy it. I nominated BLACKFIVE as I think we are the perfect new owner. Matt and I have been there, me multiple times and we promise to turn...

  • Save the Yards

    RE: The Fate of the Montagnards Over at the Burn Pit, Mothax made a visit to the Montagnard compound in Asheboro, NC. ...Starting in 1986, U.S. Special Forces soldiers who served alongside the Montagnards started a modest effort to free some of the Yards...

  • Know your enemy

    One of the most important things about any conflict is knowing your enemy. It obviously helps you in the fight, but sometimes it helps define at least a part of why you fight: Suspected Taliban militants executed a seven-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan...
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  • Tim Kennedy Fight Tonight on Showtime

    Breaking in from the annual B5 family vacation to let you know that one of our own SYSK, SF Sniper and Ranger Tim Kennedy, has a fight on Showtime tonight. It's at 8pm Eastern, I believe, but check your listings to be sure you won't miss it. http...

  • 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...

  • Daily Brief 15 Jun 2010

    U.S.: Marine Sgt. accused of killing unarmed Iraqis set free months after appeals court ruling that he had an unfair trial Bin Laden issues new warning to U.S. in audio message Homeland Security begins UAV surveillance patrols in Texas F-35B becomes first...
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  • Ralph Peters on Turkey's ambush of Israel

    Sometimes Ralph Peters is just dead on. In yesterday's confrontation, Israel behaved clumsily. The peace activists behaved savagely. The Turks behaved cynically. The world reacted predictably. And Washington scratched its head. Read more: http://www...

  • A Marine's Dad on Memorial Day

    Last Sunday morning, the day before Memorial Day, I headed out early-early to get some photographs. I first headed down to Quantico Marine Corps Base, then headed into DC. Arlington did not open its gates until 0800, and since I got in the area around...

  • Shhhhhh...We're hunting Al Qaeda

    This article, as Sean Linnane at Strombringer points out, in its breathless declaration of President Obama unleashing a horde of Jason Bournes upon the bad guys of the world, is a complete joke. It looks to me like the Obama Administration is, YET AGAIN...
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