Is It Cold In Here?
Jo Fish, who actually wore a uniform, had this to say on the possibility of conscription: That pretty much nails it, losing the mid-grade NCOs and junior officers is a killer at any time,...
Tagged: Foreign Policy & Military & War
Robert Hanssen
The Department of Justice has released its unclassified executive summary of A Review of the FBI’s Performance in Deterring, Detecting, and Investigating the Espionage Activities of Robert Philip Hanssen. Interesting reading. Given the fact...
Bring Them Home
Associated Press on Military Families Launch Campaign to Bring Troops Home: The mother of a Massachusetts National Guardsman (search) stationed in Iraq since March, Schuman has joined others — longtime pacifists, military veterans and...
Ripping Rummy
In a recent interview by Jonathan Franklin, Col. David Hackworth really let loose on Rumsfeld. Read it here.
Sabotage at Camp Lejeune
What is going on at Camp Lejeune lately? First we had idiots planning to blow stuff up all over the base. That was bad enough, but the fools sabotaging parachutes at 2d Landing Support...
Military Tribunals (Again)
Jacob G. Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Are Military Tribunals Worth Dying For? Despite the fact that the U.S. government so far is not applying military tribunals to U.S. citizens, the...
Neo-Cons Ruin Pentagon
Karen Kwiatkowski writing for The Beacon Journal on Career officer does eye-opening stint inside Pentagon: After eight years of Bill Clinton, many military officers breathed a sigh of relief when George W. Bush was...
DU Revisited (Again)
David Hambling of New Scientist on 'Safe' alternative to depleted uranium revealed: Controversial anti-tank shells tipped with depleted uranium may be phased out if an alternative material proves its worth. The US Army is...
More on the ‘Threat’
Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Even with Weapons, Hussein Was No Threat: The glaring absence of unconventional Iraqi arms should not blind us to the fact that even if Saddam...