Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
Despite the initiative being spearheaded by France to create a “Mediterranean Union” composed of the EU and the Muslim countries of North Africa and the Middle East, tensions between Europe and the Islamic states bordering the Mediterranean have been growing
As General Petraeus takes command of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, he needs to address five fundamental areas. First, he must increase the tempo with which we are training and delivering qualified Afghan National Army and Police units
Now we move to World War II, and a darker chapter in the history of the Medal. Namely, the formal discrimination by the US Army regarding the heroism of minority soldiers, particularly African-American and Asian-Americans. (If you missed Part 1,
“The other day I saw a group of young people with signs that said, ‘Make Love, not War.’ Trouble is–they looked like they weren’t able to do either!”- then-Governor Ronald Reagan, 1967
How fitting that BigPeace.com is rolling out on the 234th anniversary of the first Declaration of Independence! For, with the launch of this newest of the marvelous Breitbart web portals, the national security community can finally break the stranglehold the
No other holiday embodies the principles that define America like Independence Day. And there is no better day to launch BigPeace than today. President Reagan led us to victory over the Soviets at the end of the Cold War without
As we celebrate another Independence Day that finds the nation at war, let’s take a look at some men who, when asked by their children, “What did you do in the war, Daddy?” were able to say they did far
“Why is it the ship beats the waves when the waves are so many and the ship is one? The reason is that the ship has a purpose.” –Sir Winston Churchill photo by Michael Yon We are launching Big Peace
“We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.” – The Declaration of Independence 234 years after the Declaration of Independence was ratified by the Continental Congress, many feel we have lost sight of the
A little less than a year after announcing it, in front of Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other American foreign policy elites at Frank Gaffney’s “Keeper of the Flame” Award Dinner in October 2009, we are finally launching
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
The would-be 20th hijacker of the planes used in the September 11, 2011 terrorist attacks, Zacarias Moussaoui, claims the Saudis “funded 9/11” via an unnamed prince who allegedly “paid for [Moussaoui] and 19 hijackers to learn to fly.” Moussaoui said
The Washington Post‘s Jackson Diehl argues that the U.S. has chosen the “wrong allies” in Egypt by siding, effectively, with the military regime. Instead, he says, we should be supporting the secular liberals currently in prison for organizing protests: Ahmed Maher,
