Journal Entry Three for IR396 Contemporary Issues in the Persian Gulf I American Military University In The Greatest Threat, Richard Butler chronicles his work as chairman of UNSCOM inspecting and […]
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Journal Entry Five for IR396: Contemporary Issues in the Persian Gulf I
Journal Entry Five for IR396 Contemporary Issues in the Persian Gulf I American Military University Following my discharge from active duty in 1995, I was particularly concerned about the status […]
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Journal Entry Seven for IR396: Contemporary Issues in the Persian Gulf I
Journal Entry Seven for IR396 Contemporary Issues in the Persian Gulf I American Military University In The Generals’ War, Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor mention the January […]
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Journal Entry Six for IR396: Contemporary Issues in the Persian Gulf I
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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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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