Old Men Like Us: Bill Faith sends this item, under a heading he describes in terms that would have pleased Fritz Leiber: Of Unsung Heroes a...

Doomsday: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , keepers of the Doomsday Clock , have some theories they'd like to share on what scenar...

A Win: Oddly, this bill was highly popular. I didn't expect anything to be done about it, as all sides endorsed the idea of an "I...

A Postscript Explained: The Green Side has a letter from the front. It is a complete account of the battle for Fallujah -- at least, as co...

AmmuNation: Business kept me away from my desk yesterday, and prevented my mentioning the start of "National Ammo Week!" . Reader...

The Swamp of Psychology: Here is a piece on psychology from The New Yorker . Particularly, he's interested in the problems of personal...

To Shepherd the Weak: Thanksgiving is a time for charity, as well as thanks. Everyone has their own ideas about this, and I don't inten...

Voices About The Hall: For the first time, Grim's Hall will be seeing posts by authors other than Grim. I've extended to Eric an in...

Sandmen: I've added a new link over in the "Other Halls" section. It's to a blog called My Sandmen , which I discovered o...

MILSCI #1: As discussed in the comments to the post below, the class will begin with a study of Warfighting , which is the USMC's introd...

Military Science "Book Club": So, I've been exchanging emails with some of you over the post about the need for more knowledge...

On the Shooting E.B. sends this article questioning whether a Marine acted legally in administering a coup de grace to a possibly wounded,...

More on China Unrest: The Asia Times has a piece on several major riots, street battles, and demonstrations from the Middle Kingdom. The p...

A Little Help: A primer on US mechanized infantry unit structure , for those of my readers who felt stung by the recent piece citing Mr. Dru...

More on Powell: From Mark Steyn , writing the week of Powell's famous appearance before the UN.

Matters of State: One of my chief complaints with the Bush administration has been that Bush would not force a settlement between his adviso...

3/5: The 3/5 Marines leave a message at "Kos' Bridge."

On War: Your boy Kevin Drum is right on [UPDATE: KGC correctly points out that Drum didn't write this; he was merely citing it. The a...

On Revolution: The most peaceful revolution of all time was the fall of the Berlin Wall: By way of illustration, she told the story of a wo...

Smuggler's Blues: Did you know that camera phone smuggling was a serious problem for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? Cattle smuggling ...