Category Archives: Foreign Policy and the Military

Issues dealing with America’s foreign policies, national defense strategy, and our military

Syria: Obama’s Bosnia

Before committing U.S. forces to the “humanitarian” relief of Syrian “rebels,” Obama, his National Security Council, Congress and interested citizens should read former U.S.  Ambassador to the United Nations Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick’s book Making War to Keep Peace.  If intellectual, … Continue reading

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Snowden in Russia

Russian president Putin allowing Snowden to live in Russia is no surprise.  They are, after all, communists.  In Moscow Diary Velijko Micunovic, the first Hungarian ambassador to the Soviet Union, wrote  “…for the Russians a conciliatory attitude is a sign of weakness” and … Continue reading

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PC Thought Police at Army’s Intel School

I was told last Friday by a “deputy chief” librarian – who, though born in America,  frequently brags about her dual citizenship and social medicine registry number in England – that she, Stephanie, and the chief librarian, Joan (who despises … Continue reading

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PFC Manning…What’s All the Fuss About?

I don’t understand what all the fuss is about PFC. Manning’s release of tens of thousands of classified documents. He’s only doing what politicians and their bureaucratic appointees have been doing for decades.  Politicization of intelligence has always been a … Continue reading

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Military’s Holocaust Hypocrisy

As a boy in the ’50s I watched “World At War” narrated by Walter Cronkite.  I was forever marked emotionally seeing the films of the liberated concentration camps.  As a teenaged military history buff I studied that war to understand … Continue reading

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Budget Cuts Effect on Military Readiness – Really?

Cheerleader Generals Reading “Military Update” by Tom Philpott (“Some relief, but commissaries may get cut”) is like listening to the home town cheerleader.  In the  ‘80s General Shachnow – a true soldiers’ general-  said “anything above the rank of major … Continue reading

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America’s Autopsy: Overdose on the Heroin of Hedonism

Three months after the 2008 Obama victory I was driving to work at Ft. Huachuca, AZ.  I was driving down Brainard Drive alongside the runway enjoying the crisp, winter morning sunrise when I felt this almost overwhelming nausea in my stomach.  … Continue reading

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Stop This Pretend War…NOW!!!

If someone had told me I would be making a statement like this from the time I graduated boot camp at MCRD Parris Island in 1969 until our money-saturated, beltway bandit cycloptic response to Afghanistan and Iraq, I would have knocked … Continue reading

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“The Wrong War”…..or….”Bing’s Bullshit”

I apologize up front for the language in the title.  I abbreviated the last word and it just didn’t “sing”.  Let me begin by agreeing -in limited concept- with Mr. West in regards to his emphasis on modified battalions and … Continue reading

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The Most Important Unread Book In America

The TV program “Law & Order” (which I used to watch constantly) and other TV media portray the “anti-war” demonstrators of the ’60s as conscientious objectors to an “immoral war”; concerned for the “murder” of thousands of U.S. servicemen and “millions” … Continue reading

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PTSD……Really?

Post Traumatic Stress Syndrom (PTSD) – like any government benefit involving money- is being abused.  I recommend anyone interested in the subject to first read the book “Stolen Valor” by B. J. Burkett.  The author was an army lieutenant who returned from Vietnam … Continue reading

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