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Review of John Yoo's "Crisis and Command"

Elise Cooper for BLACKFIVE John Yoo’s latest book, Crisis and Command, is an encyclopedia of information on how presidents from Washington to George W. Bush dealt with national security. He explores the decision by the founding fathers to make sure the...

Published Wed, Mar 10 2010 2:28 PM by BLACKFIVE

Massa Masterpiece - Must Read

David Bellavia posts up the five issues he has with the jerk that is former Congressman Eric Massa. It is a must read.

Published Wed, Mar 10 2010 10:24 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

"The Pacific" - Two Views

First, the US Naval Institute has a series profiling each episode of "the Pacific" - the new HBO miniseries by Tom Hanks that features combat in the Pacific during WWII. Some have called it the Marine's "Band of Brothers". Go here...

Published Wed, Mar 10 2010 2:58 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Fallen But Never Forgotten, Bust Their Chops, Film

MaryAnn at Afghan Quest

Our friend and Soldiers' Angel MaryAnn is featured at Afghan Quest, who writes in fear of his life. Enter Soldiers’ Angels and the force that defies gravity and fatigue; MaryAnn Phillips. I can’t describe MaryAnn as unassuming, a word often associated...

Published Wed, Mar 10 2010 2:05 AM by BLACKFIVE

Hugo Chavez is not a dictator?!

First, read Jimbo's post today below about ol' Hugo Chavez and his terror connections. And then go here to This Ain't Hell for some Sean Penn-Hugo Chavez full on gay pron stupidity.

Published Wed, Mar 10 2010 1:34 AM by BLACKFIVE

"Green Zone" - Slanders America?

The New York Post rips into "Green Zone" as anti-American. ..."Green Zone," opening Friday, is a $100 million slime job that conjures up a fantastically distorted leftist version of the war and wraps it around a frantic but preposterous...

Published Wed, Mar 10 2010 1:06 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs, Bust Their Chops, Film

Hugo Chavez running terror training camps?

Say it ain't so? And not just his local crews and the FARC from Colombia, but Basque terrorists from Spain. Oddly enough reported by The New Republic: What were two members of a violent Basque separatist group doing with 11 members of Colombia's...

Published Wed, Mar 10 2010 12:54 AM by BLACKFIVE

Dead Tangos- Bali bombmaker bites it

The Long War Journal says it's confirmed, the bombmaker for the Bali blast has assumed room temperature. Dulmatin, one of the most wanted al Qaeda-linked terrorists in Southeast Asia, has been confirmed killed, Indonesia's president Susilo Bambang...

Published Tue, Mar 09 2010 11:52 PM by BLACKFIVE

Today in Medal of Honor history: Bernard F. Fisher

44 years ago, the US was evacuating personnel from a special operations base in the Battle of A Shau. Major Bernard F. Fisher and other pilots from the 1st Air Commando Squadronwas . When Maj. Dafford "Jump" Myers' A1-E Skyraider was hit...

Published Tue, Mar 09 2010 2:00 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

Juicebox Mafia- Self-torture over non-torture in interrogations

It's kind of amazing the myriad ways they can keep watering the same ground and watching nothing grow. Juicebox outrage over the security precautions we put in place during waterboarding.

Published Tue, Mar 09 2010 5:35 AM by BLACKFIVE

Greatest American Patriotic books

W. Thomas Smith, Jr. has compiled a list of the greatest American patriotic novels and works and non-fiction over at Human Events. Definitely worth checking out.

Published Tue, Mar 09 2010 12:27 AM by BLACKFIVE

LDI on a "Bright Leash"

The Guardian (UK) has noticed the Army's love of reflector belts. So clandestine are the units formed to protect villages in a critical valley in southern Afghanistan that US officials and special forces commanders in Kabul refuse to discuss them...

Published Mon, Mar 08 2010 11:57 PM by BLACKFIVE

The whole of government approach

Warrior Legacy Institute Fellow Brad Patty has a piece up at the American Security Council Foundation's site about how we need to get all of our agencies on the same page to succeed at stability operations. The world is a dangerous place. Two things...

Published Mon, Mar 08 2010 10:44 PM by BLACKFIVE

Today in Medal of Honor History: Jack H. Jacobs

42 years ago, First Lieutenant Jack Jacobs was searching for Viet Cong soldiers when the South Vietnamese battalion that he was advising suddenly came under devastating fire from a large enemy force hidden in bunkers. Many of the soldiers were killed...

Published Mon, Mar 08 2010 2:13 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

Brothers in Arms always got your back

Thanks to Otto for the tip on this story. Special Forces Army Chief Warrant Officer Romulio "Romy" Camargo's mission was assisting Afghanistan civilians in 2008 when the shot of a sniper rifle pierced his neck. The bullet hit a vertebra...

Published Mon, Mar 08 2010 11:42 AM by BLACKFIVE

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