Travels: First, a small update: I'm going to be out of pocket until Tuesday. Should be back by then. Before I go, I would like to draw...

CRS: The Congressional Research Service has a new report out on the role of security forces in peacekeeping operations, including Iraq. It ...

Spirit of America: The contest has begun! You'll find the donate button to the right, just below my shield, or you can follow this link...

ROE: I've had an email question I can't answer on the Rules of Engagement in Iraq's Marine area of control. If any of you feel ...

Belmont Club: The Belmont Club today offers a couple of useful pieces of analysis on the current state of Iraq.

Spirit of America: A reminder: today begins the Spirit of America campaign among bloggers. I'll update through the day, but be sure to...

Big and Small Wars: It appears that the war has entered a new phase. My conclusions are that things are about to escalate sharply; that the...

Firefight on the Syrian Border: Big news from the Syria-Iraq border. As usual, the Marines killed--either five or six, depending on the sou...

Negative Ads: Honestly, we're not far from this : The Bush people initiated this volley of negative ads, but we won't be lured into ...

Hezbollah: It is, I fear, time to start talking seriously about the probability of Hezbollah activity in Iraq, and what that means for the ...

PSYOPS in Fallujah: Thanks to The Command Post , we have this story: In Fallujah's darkened, empty streets, US troops blast AC/DC's ...

A Piper, Piping Away: Del ovear at FreeSpeech has an article on the USMC's use of bagpipes in Fallujah. It's from CNN, which means...

Marines Cut the Rat Line: Major General of Marines John Sattler, USCENTCOM, spoke about I MEF operations : The general also said that coalit...

Squirrel Problems? The historian Roger Scruton explains a simple solution to the plague of squirrels troubling many places. I have to atte...

Personal Data Feed: Regular readers probably know more about me than they want to know already. Still, I thought I'd mention for the in...

Spirit of America: By now probably all of you know of the Spirit of America campaign, whereby the US Marines are raising money to spend in ...

The Rough Riders: A contractor writes from Fallujah. I won't excerpt it; it's worth reading in full. I've been considering the...

A Partial Answer to Rooney: Sgt Hook answers Andy Roony, based on a poll of soldiers serving with him in Afghanistan. Rooney was really as...

TVNews: I see via Doc Russia that Fox has posted an interview with our boys in Ramadi in video form on the internet.

Mailbag: I'm going to post out of a couple of the letters I've seen, one of which is being passed around and has been posted elsewhe...