Journal Entry Six for IR396 Contemporary Issues in the Persian Gulf I American Military University Looking back on the buildup to the ground war in 1990, prompted by further readings […]
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Tag: Foreign Policy & Military & War
Wouldn't it be great if wars could be fought just by the assholes who started them? – The Postman
Journal Entry Two for IR396: Contemporary Issues in the Persian Gulf I
Journal Entry Two for IR396 Contemporary Issues in the Persian Gulf I American Military University In 1991, when the Coalition forces began their push to supplant Saddam’s forces from Kuwait […]
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Journal Entry One for IR396: Contemporary Issues in the Persian Gulf I
Journal Entry One for IR396 Contemporary Issues in the Persian Gulf I American Military University Upon reading the assigned writings for this week, I was thrust back to the summer […]
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For A Sack of Gold
Associated Press on Gitmo Detainees Say They Were Sold: They fed them well. The Pakistani tribesmen slaughtered a sheep in honor of their guests, Arabs and Chinese Muslims famished from […]
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Seeking Out Monsters: Ignoring the Advice of John Quincy Adams
May 30, 2005 Seeking Out Monsters: Ignoring the Advice of John Quincy Adams American Military University RQ 300, Research, Analysis and Writing by James Landrith Abstract Terrorism and Islamic nationalism […]
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Flag Desecration Attack on First Amendment
Yesterday, along with over 1000 other veterans via Veterans for Common Sense, I co-signed a letter to the Congress (pdf) in opposition to H.J. Res. 10, which would turn free […]
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Starbucks Is Not Anti-Military
On occasion, from friends and family I receive a copy of an email from Sgt Howard C. Wright (USMC) regarding Starbucks: "Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they […]
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Conservative Destroyers
As the Administration prepares to instigate Iran into open war and the "moral" police prepare to inflict the rest of us with their special brand of "ethics," perhaps we should […]
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Bad Air
Fellow Marine Thomas L. Knapp has said all I would have said on today's helicopter crash in Iraq. Read it.
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Group Punishment
U.S. Military Resorting To Collective Punishment Inter Press Service The U.S. military is resorting to collective punishment tactics in Iraq similar to those used by Israeli troops in the occupied […]
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