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The President and Operational Planning

Why, over six months after his West Point speech is there still such a debate over President Obama’s July 2011 departure date for Afghanistan? Simple; a military campaign has never been won where you run a blinkered Time-Based campaign instead

An Islamophobe in Sweden

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch is currently visiting Sweden at the invitation of Sverigedemokraterna (the Sweden Democrats), the only mainstream political party in Sweden that opposes mass immigration and the Islamization of Europe. [youtube xYAm9Gv-Zcc nolink] A Swedish reader has

Offshore Oil Drilling Ban Enriches Our Enemies

When the founding fathers declared our independence, they could not have imagined that, 234 years later, our nation would be so spectacularly dependent on a market dominated by countries fundamentally hostile to America, some implicitly and some explicitly, for something

Military Insubordination or Administrative Incompetence?

The important issue prompted by the current Rolling Stone article isn’t Gen. McChrystal’s defiance or rank insubordination. It’s the announced deadline for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, an insane move that guarantees defeat, as well as other war-losing moves. Would you

The Price of Peace

We launched Big Peace on the day we celebrate our independence from England. But let’s remember the country that has become our strongest and most reliable friend and pray that our current administration work harder to repair the needlessly strained

Obama: Less Competent than Jimmy Carter

It is not true that General McChrystal demonstrated insubordination (as too many commentators held), and if we remember the long train of events launched in the fall of 2008 and concluding in McChrystal’s dismissal, we will readily understand that. First,