Maybe a helicopter like this one brought bin Laden’s corpse to the USS Carl Vinson late last night where in the wee hours of Monday morning the bullet-pocked corpse of the terror-mastermind received full jihad honors. Or was that full
Early in 2009, I interviewed Gen. Paul Vallely (US Army Ret.) and learned about the “lily pad” strategy — a strategy, Vallely explained, that relies on “the maximum use of unconventional forces,” such as Navy SEALS and other special forces,
Rejoice. But. Osama bin Laden was killed in a mansion located in a “densely populated” area called Abbottabad, 30 miles outside Islamabad — not in that dark, wet cave in the North West Territories where, it was often imagined, his
Beautiful, downtown Kandahar. Hey, it works, says Jim Lacey, so let’s go. — Jim Lacey is a professor of strategic studies at the Marine Corps War College. Good. Judging by his recent piece at NRO, he has common sense, the
The caption on this EPA photo is: “Afghan Army soldiers secure the military base after a shooting incident.” The killer of nine NATO troops and a contractor was an Afghan Air Corps officer. Is the base secure? — The carnage
Required reading for Libya Hawks — Forget Sun Tzu and von Clauswitz. With tea-meister Mortenson unmasked, US military strategists are now turning to Lewis Carroll for tips on moving effortlessly from war to war, from mess to mess, from Iraq
Photo by Paul Avallone — I have struck up some mighty fine e-meetings of the mind through my column over the years; none more appreciated than my military penpals. After last week’s musings and column on the spectacular unravelling of
Writing at The Corner, Nina Shea recaps the latest in the saga of Terry Jones, who has been trying to take a peaceful, non-flammable protest of sharia and jihad to the sidewalk outside the largest mosque in America in Dearborn,
This is “postcard” from Afghanistan by Paul Avallone, someone who has drunk more than his share of cups of tea there, first as a Green Beret and later as a photojournalist. Readers will recall his pungently evocative writings and photos
I don’t know which is more outrageous: the State Department memo claiming that the Libyan “rebels” — sorry, their “political arm” — has “embraced the Geneva Conventions” (death grip?), or that Uncle Sucker (you) will be catering their halal meals
For some years now, there have been a few voices sounding the alarm on “Muslim outreach” — the intensive engagement the US government entered into post 9/11 with a rogue’s gallery of Imam Flim Flams and Muslim taqiyya artists that
Reading about another catastrophically maimed casualty of the counterinsurgency strategy (COIN) in Afghanistan, I was struck by a biographical note. This young American, now a triple amputee after stepping on an IED while on foot patrol, an integral feature of
Where’s Captain Bligh when we need him? — Catch-and-release wrought tragedy and injustice in Iraq; it does the same thing in Afghanistan. Now, it also rules the waves — but first, a halal meal: From the Daily Mail Via Vlad
Recon Marine Cpl. Todd Love (above) got a hero’s welcome in his hometown of Acworth, Georgia this week. Love lost both legs and his left arm in an IED explosion in Afghanistan a few months ago. The Washington Examiner story
Back in April 2009, I wrote a column, based around an interview with Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely (Ret.), called “Let Afghanistan Go.” Almost two years later to the day, here’s another go. Two more American soldiers were killed this
Gen. David Petraeus, ISAF commander, February 11, 2011 (with thanks to an eagle-eyed ex-Marine). I write about David Petraeus now and then — ok, considering him a primary architect and implementer of the Arabist-tilted policy (long denied on the Right)
What happens when Everyguy Icon Bill O’Reilly pushes the calamitous absurdity that Pastor Terry Jones “has blood on his hands,” and Hezbollah puts a $2.4 million bounty on Jones’ head? We don’t know. We do know the epic scale of
Terry Jones, last American standing — Not to be outstyled by the “avenging” Gray Lady, The Christian Science Monitor wins Dhimmi of the News-Day today for this headline: “Terry Jones: How free speech and Quran burning can lead to violence“
NYT photo: Payola Day in Marja, April 2009, — With the lion’s share coming from the US, the world put at least $100,000,000 into Marja and environs half a century ago — snd that worked out so well. After seizing
I shouldn’t do this, at least not on the weekend, but I glanced at the NYT (which used to be called The Gray Lady) and saw this A1 headline: “Afghans Avenge Koran Burning, Killing 12” As someone who knows that
Photo by AP: Elham Omar Hotaki, deputy of the pilot project of the planned New Kabul City walks past by a white line showing part of the outline of a planned new city north of Kabul. — If you like
There is a new divide by which we define ourselves: Those who suck in the acrid smell of jihad in the Middle East, pronounce their hallucinations “Arab Spring,” crave more … and those who don’t. Among those of us who
On the one hand, to be smeared by the Anti-Defamation League for combatting the incursions of Islamic law into this country is a badge not just of honor — which it is — but of effectiveness. To be smeared by
The US ambassador to the UN and the commander of NATO can fight over “flickers” of al Qaeda and Hezbollah among the Libyan rebels, but it’s clearly indisputable that enemy Hezbollah leader Nasrallah (along with al Qaeda’s Abu Yahya al-Libi
From the Netherlands, a shot of pure oxygen and a beam of truth from the wonderful Geert Wilders to a world constricted by fear and doubt. Breathe and bask. “Time to Unmask Mohammed” by Geert Wilders, from the Dutch magazine
