Kashmir: Big arrest in Kashmir today. You can read about it here . As the article points out, it is extremely rare to capture one of these...

Yuletide: I wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and a fine Yuletide. My thoughts go out to the deployed, who are not blessed as I am to share ...

Holidays: In spite of the holidays, no rest. That's fair: there's a lot going on out there, and most of the world doesn't take...

...In Shining Armor: Now this is body armor . These kinds of stories always invoke two reactions in me: 1) How great that our fighters wi...

Poetics: Military bloggers are surprisingly often poets, or take the time to host poets. Here are a few poems I've seen lately. Some o...

Small Wars , II: There has been some talk lately about how there are relatively few "conservatives" in academia. Some have sugges...

Small Wars : Reader Tom sends a link to a draft version of the new USMC Small Wars Manual . Unlike many USMC manuals, it states that it doe...

Seasons Greetings: BlackFive has a piece today entitled "Want to Send a Marine a Letter?" HQMC has apparently instituted a new s...

SOA Wrapup: The Spirit of America "Friends of Iraq Blogger Challenge" has ended. You can see the results at that link. The re...

Just In Time For... Drill Sgt. Rob at AnAmericanSoldier has composed a Christmas list for the deploying soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine....

Oh, My: Now this is something you don't see every day: A judge refused to delay a trial Tuesday when an attorney objected to his wearing...

Information-Based Warfighting: We've all read about the extraordinary impact of information flow on the new, American model of war. In ...

Viral Freedom: The Spirit of America contests is in its last hours! The Leatherneck Bloggers have merged with Team Pajamahdeen in an effor...

SoA: Thanks to everyone who has donated to the Leatherneck Bloggers today. I don't know if it's just one of you, or a whole bunch ...

Woof: Wretchard's got one for you today. Here's something to ponder: "The genius of the founding fathers," European Comm...

"The Picture Problem" The New Yorker recently ran an article which provides more insight into the problems of intelligence . In ...

The Asia Times on CIA Reform: This article treats a perceived collapse of the Central Intelligence Agency, and the hope for its recovery u...

A Rifleman: Mike is enjoying some well-earned gloating. That's a good looking range report.

BlackFive at Harvard? So he says . I always thought he was pretty smart... for someone who wasn't in the Marines, of course. You...

On Spirit of America, and Iraq: As mentioned, I went last night to the Spirit of America gathering at the Cosmos Club in D.C. I met and gr...