Happy Armed Forces Day: In honor of AFD, I've spent the day at that most frequent and herculean of military labors: shifting house. My ...

Rumsfeld: There are a pair of essays on Rumsfeld today. You'll have seen the VDH essay, which is being broadly linked across the blogo...

Big Win in USPACOM: There is another GWOT success being reported by the AFP at this hour (no link so far). A Filipino who acted as a conduit...

Wergeld: Marines in Fallujah are paying the diaya , which is the Arabic version wergeld : The village leader received $15,000 on behalf of r...

Option Two: A few days ago I asked for opinions on the moral course of action for dealing with the prisoners at Abu Ghraib in light of new e...

Responsibility: BlackFive correctly points out the failure of leadership at Abu Ghraib that needs to be punished. There have been a number...

The Boy Scouts: Grim's Hall is an enthusiastic supporter of the Boy Scouts. I was myself a Scout--I had the honor of achieving Life Sco...

Cavalry Raiders: Some of you noticed that BlackFive published a short series of photos from Iraq. I have a more from the same series (than...

Fatwa on the Death of Nick Berg: For those of you who have seen the video, you noticed that the execution was preceeded by a seven minute sp...

A Petition: Doc Russia gives us a useful petition. It urges the government to sell used military M14s to the American citizen. For those...

Techies on the side of Right: There's an article from Battelle on new technical innovations, designed primarily for the GWoT: 1. Forwa...

Heads Up: Don't know if I have any Aussie readers anymore, but I used to. A newly discovered terrorist manual has named Australians as...

A Marine: Our man BlackFive has a story of a man who fought like an Officer of Marines, and won the Navy Cross: Brian Chontosh gave the ord...

An Ethical Question: I had a conversation with a colleague today on the prison situation in Iraq. There is an ethical question--or rather, ...

Ink for SOA: A new blog has opened at this address , to discuss the idea of recycling used ink jet cartridges, the profits donated to Spirit...

The Command Post: Via The Command Post , we have a very cheerful image from Fallujah. I dropped by the Post to see what they'd dug up o...

Marines Outside Iraq: The 22d MEU (SOC) has opened a forward operating base--FOB Ripley--to perform security and stability operations in th...

Marines in Fallujah: Captain's Quarters has a piece on the Marines in Fallujah from the LA Times. Meanwhile, there's evidence in t...

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...