I just got this video with a look at a firefight in Afghanistan like it actually looks. [youtube Bmh8EgvNP0M nolink] Below the fold is another, longer more intense fight from 2 years ago close to the border with Pakistan. There
Time to scarf up head WikiWanker, the excremental Julian Assange. Fire up the black helicopters, fit him for an orange jumpsuit and put him on the Rendition Express. He is now responsible for the deaths of brave Afghans and there
A NY Times story about successes we have had making dead tangos( i.e. counterterrorism) has a bunch of people scrambling to use this to justify all kinds of nonsense. Let’s clarify a few things so that when the punditocracy commences
There are plenty of reasons to love the Floyd, but you can add a big one now. Roger Waters gave permission to a couple of Iranian brothers in Canada with a band called Blurred Vision to re-record the the song
So WikiLeaks is at it again, oh joy. They have released tens of thousands of classified reports from the war in Afghanistan. Yep you heard right, tens of thousands of classified documents. Now are these important examples of illegal activity,
[youtube RnOPZ_CyfKg nolink] It has always been somewhat counter-intuitive that a less aggressive strategy and tactics will succeed in Afghanistan. There has been considerable complaining about the tighter rules of engagement (ROE) put in place by Gen. McChrystal and mostly
A hacker is by definition someone comfortable with rule-breaking, so when Adrian Lamo learned of Bradley Manning’s tale of giving 260,000 sensitive cables to WikiLeaks he had a dilemma. In May, 22 year-old US Army Private First Class Bradley Manning
There is quite a lot of hyperventilation going on about some testimony from one of the Justice Department lawyers Jay Bybee who co-wrote the so-called “torture memos”. Apparently some of the techniques the CIA used were not included in these
William Arkin along with Dana Priest just released an epic bit of hype and marketing called Top Secret America in the Washington Post. Arkin is relatively undistinguished as a journalist, but he did have one brush with notoriety when he
The media are gathered in the White House press room expecting another session kicking the crap out of feckless Robert Gibbs. The lights dim and several disco balls descend from the ceiling while tendrils of smoke snake across the front
[youtube giY8uPWmrCA nolink] Any excuse to escape the fetid swamp that is DC in the Summer is good enough, a fundraiser for wounded vets is a no brainer. My karma can always use some help. I work with the Warrior
[Ed. Note: Not having seen the upcoming critically-acclaimed documentary “The Tillman Story,” and not being familiar with the story, I asked Jim Hanson of Big Peace if he would lay it out for us. Since making that request both Kurt
Turkey is a member of NATO and has long been held out as an example of democracy and secular society in the Middle East. That has been changing since Prime Minister Erdogan came to power in 2003. He and his
There has been a lot of talk about the Rules of Engagement (ROE) in Afghanistan and whether they are too restrictive of our troops ability to defend themselves. Many are speculating that Gen. Petraeus will loosen them now that he
Pat Tillman left one of the most sought after jobs on Earth as a star in the NFL to join the Army and volunteer as a Ranger. It was a noble, patriotic and selfless act that deserves to be his
**Post updated since publication. SSG Sal Giunta, a paratrooper w/ the 173rd Airborne, is likely to be the first living Medal of Honor recipient since the Vietnam War. He earned this by charging a group of Taliban who were trying
