Reference Material: US Army Field Manual 34-52, "Intelligence Interrogation," can be found here . It seems to be the governing pu...

Best to a Brother in Arms: Condolences and prayers for US Marine and blogger Deuddersun and his family, who have suffered a death this week...

Welcome: Welcome to Noble Eagle , a new Milblog.

CI: Counterintelligence inside the US is at an all time high. We don't see it on TV, or read about it in the paper, due to the secrecy ...

Contractors: Grim's Hall is one of the prime defenders of the use of contractors in Iraq and elsewhere. This is probably due in part to...

Defensive Lasers: The Nautilus project knocks down its target . I still remain astonished at this--I understand we have lasers in developme...

Chesterton: From The Everlasting Man : Now it is very right to rebuke our own race or religion for falling short of our own standards and id...

Timeline: If any of you are interested in getting the order of events at Abu Ghraib straight, the Mudville Gazette has undertaken to constr...

Killings: Jason Steenwk at Iraq Now confirms that the US military has demonstrated two criminal homicides of Iraqi prisoners--but contented...

Torture & Secrecy: The government has begun the process of shaking out the lawbreakers who were involved in the torture in Iraq. The ge...

"Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003" The annual report by the State Department is now available in HTML.

Kitted Out, II: If you thought poor Kaplan had it tough, take a look at what the Marines do . Thanks to JHD for the link.

DARPA on Torture: The DARPA TIDES project ("Translingual Information Detection, Extraction and Summarization" according to the ho...

No One Gets Left Behind: No one : Luci was left without a family when an Army unit departed Baghdad, said Maj. Gen. Amos. This presented the...

USSC: The Right Coast has correctly analyzed the current status of the Supreme Court: it struck me once again that what the Supreme Court i...

Kitted Out: Robert Kaplan has an article in the Atlantic on the subject: I was attracted to one Web site, BotachTactical.com, which advert...

AP: Iraqis Commit Suicide In another lesson on press bias, if one were needed, we have this introductory sentence to an AP article on today...

Prisoner Torture: Sovay has a collection of headlines from the Arab and Iranian press on the torture story. There is, of course, no surpri...

German Leader Gives Finger to US, Kerry: In a jab-cross combination, the German Defense Minister, Peter Struck, has managed to slug both Ame...

May Day: May and October are the finest of months. One morning in May by chance I did rove, I sat myself down by the side of a grove, And ...