War On Terror
A question for the Marines, and you know I love you, but who didn’t you let play with the guns?
We first met John Noonan through his blog Op-For. I had the chance to meet him at the milblog conference in Washington a few years ago and have been reading him in places like The Washington Post, National Review and the Weekly Standard ever since. John recently joined the Foreign Policy Initiative, a new DC […]
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I love books that stand conventional wisdom on its head and ask the reader to think about old problems in new ways. That, in a nutshell, is what Lee Smith has done with The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations. I especially liked the book description from Max Boot, The Strong […]
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One of the most underappreciated aspects of the Scott Brown victory in deep blue Massachusetts was his vigorous, clear, no apologies defense of some of the most controversial aspects related to how we handle the war on terror, or whatever the Obama administration is calling it this week. War on man-made disasters is sooooo 2009! […]
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One of the greatest experiences I have had in five years of Pundit Review Radio was getting to know the family of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps and Lt. Col. Michael Strobl. Chance was killed in Iraq in 2004 and Lt. Col. Strobl was assigned to escort his body home from Dover AFB to his final […]
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A lot of things are used as political weapons including cyberspace, civilians and the environment to name a few. In my lifetime, terrorism has always been used as a political weapon. It’s been a highly successful one, after all it got Yasar Arafat a Nobel Peace Prize. What we haven’t seen, for the most part […]
UPDATE: Last night, Bruce McQuain used the Someone You Should Know segment to describe to us in vivid detail the battle on the side of an Afghan mountain which ultimately cost Jared Monti, and two other soldiers, their lives. My thoughts and prayers are with Jared’s family, friends and fellow soldiers today. On August 30, […]
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