New Governor in Southern Afghanistan: 'Kandahar Shuffle' sounds like a particularly exotic dance. In what must be the best news fr...

The Heroic Life: Two articles today on masculinity and the heroic life. This is of course one of the prime reasons for the existence of thi...

Ahem: Remember that post about military pay? Mr. Bush spoke yesterday at Miramar Marine Corps Base to thank the troops just back from Iraq....

Napping: A lot of readers may not know that I am married, but I have a beautiful wife and a fine, strong son who is now a bit more than a ye...

Grrr... The Corner has this story on how the cuts in military pay, for our soldiers on the line in Iraq and Afghanistan, are coupled with i...

Update on Afghan Warlord: The Voice of America has a longer story, with pics.

Counterinsurgency: Here's a good article from the archives at Winds of Change , which I missed the first time around. It's a progra...

Diamonds, Made to Order: Blog Junky has a link to an interesting story out of Wired , which argues that we will soon be able to mass-produc...

A Classical Education: I have been reminded that I argued during the war in favor of classical education as the best way of preparing for t...

New "Saddam" Tape: Al Jazeera seems to have the run on Saddam tapes, doesn't it? Here's today's , in which "Sadd...

Afghan Militia attacks Pak Army with Rockets in Zabul: I don't know what to do with this yet. Let's call it developing. The story ...

Karzai: I don't have a link for this yet, but AFP is reporting that Karzai has stripped a warlord of his post: Afghan President Hamid Ka...

And Speaking of That... It's time for another Boneheaded Congress update. As a Classical Liberal, I believe that the legislature, being ...

Bloody Afghanistan: Sixty-one dead overnight in Afghanistan . Hear about it on the news today? The news is not all bad. Some of the violen...

Rumsfeld's Top Ten: The lads over at Winds of Change have obtained what they say is a copy of Donald Rumsfeld's top ten priorities....

Afghanistan Update: The Taliban have been killing pro-government Muslim clerics . Why would a group that is devoted to the glory of Allah s...

Afghan Exploitation: Via the Sage of Knoxville , a report that NGOs and UN workers are exploiting the natural resources of Afghanistan for ...

Progress in Iraq: Fallujah is a little town in the "Sunni triangle" of Iraq. In the days after the fall of Baghdad, Fallujah was ...

"The Situation is Well In Hand": From the AP, via the Austin American Statesman, this news : MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) Three U.S. wa...

Rangers: The subject of Rangers has arisen again. In a post entitled "European lack of sophistication," the Crusader War College...