Tag: Afghanistan

Those closely involved with operations in Afghanistan have known since 2008 that there was a better than average chance that our very good allies, the Dutch, were going home in 2010. It was also known that the Canadians were looking

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

I badly want our project in Afghanistan to go well. My son is there as I write this. Over this past eleven months of his deployment, I’ve gotten to know his fellows, their families, and the widows and parents of

Ben Stein recently made a useful point about the difference between Americans — and especially the media — during WWII and now. A few weeks ago, I bought a book of front pages of newspapers from World War II. I

As a follow-up to his earlier post on the topic, our Flemish correspondent VH has translated an article from the July 29 issue of Trouw about the Dutch government’s denial that it is helping to fund the mosque at Ground

In May, we exclusively broke the story that Taliban leader, Mullah Omar had been taken into the custody of Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Since that time, there has been multiple reporting that supports our exclusive, including Colonel Oliver

[youtube EPjNduWGd7E nolink] Washington, DC – In most administrations, leaks of classified information precipitate presidential ire. Nearly all such unauthorized disclosures are the consequence of disgruntled government employees deciding that a “leak” is the best way to stop some activity

It was 20 years ago this week that young people in Kashmir, emboldened by the fall of the Berlin Wall, became a separatist insurgency demanding independence from India. Kashmir, known for its beautiful scenery, has become the focal point today

What do we make of the Wiki-leaks and the Washington Post series on the growth of the “Classified Industry”? First, the big news on the wiki-leaks is that our journalistic embed program is working very well precisely because the Wiki-leaks

What if there were still a Soviet Union assessing its strategic position in the world by the well-known “correlation of forces.” If the United States asked itself how it stood within that Soviet perspective, there is at least one dimension

During my last year in the military I was involved in an organization whose purpose was to attack enemy roadside bomb (IED) networks, defeat the IED devices, and train the force to prepare them for the IED environment. Recently, we

During the Bush years, when the fight against Islamic terror was still relatively new, big newspapers and other media outlets raced to publish or broadcast major state secrets of the war. The New York Times splashed all over its front

The drama playing out over the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland reveals a continued and tragic blindness of the United States and its allies about the origins of terrorism. The President’s Commission on Aviation Security

I was invited to Washington to screen BORDER for the House and the Senate. We showed them the reality of the border. We explained the reality of the coming war. Nothing happened. No wait, check that: Rep. Virgil Goode (R.

*** Updated and clarified In a recent post, respected milblogger Bill Roggio of The Long War Journal had this to say about Taliban leader Mullah Omar’s status, a story we have been discussing since May: Mullah Omar is thought to