On Which Topic: The post directly below brings up a matter of some importance. We've all heard the warnings of a terrorist strike insid...

"Both the Right and the Duty": Bjorn Patsson has a note from Houston, TX: Wielding baseball bats and sticks, a crowd in northwest...

Intimidation: Doc Russia has a piece today on US Marines as The Terminator. Apparently a 155mm shell used against the Marines produced no ...

Wedding Party: Belmont Club has a letter from a friend: These people are members of a clan well known in Anbar province. They are supposedl...

Syrian Border Photos: Multinational Corps Iraq has released this series of photos of material captured in the attack on the Syrian border. ...

A Letter: A letter home from a US Marine. Thanks to JHD, as usual. Dad - You probably heard that Mike was wounded this week.  We take r...

Indian Elections: Irony abounds: one of the best quick summaries I've seen of the fallout from India's recent election comes from S...

Boom: I've been eaten alive between work (who knew a Datuk was a kind of Malaysian knight?) and the move. However, our faithful spotter...

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...