Playboy Scientists: The Playboy Foundation has just given a "First Amendment Award" to the Federation of American Scientists'...

In Iraq: It's short both in length and detail, but the Naval news has a clip from the commander of the 2/2 Marines , 1MARDIV, I MEF. He...

Getting Out the Vote: Everyone knows it's an election year, and everyone probably remembers what happened to military absentee ballots i...

Keeping Things Straight: Now that we have two new commands in Iraq instead of CJTF-7, how are we going to keep them straight in our heads? ...

The Belmont Club: I'm finally getting around to doing what I should have done a while ago. I'm adding the Belmot Club to the top of...

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...