God & Tsunami: Arts & Letters Daily has picked up on the latest echo of an eternal debate. It arises each time there is a natural ...

Mike Mulligan: Here's a bit of a departure for you. While visiting family over the weekend, my mother -- my son's grandmother, th...

Engagement Rings: I see on checking the Blogger's Tsunami Challenge today that a brave young man has decided to take two gambles at onc...

Charity & Leathernecks: I changed the "Leatherneck Tartan" button at the top right to point to the Tsunami Blogger Challenge ,...

Charity Challenge: Blogger Tas has started a Tsunami Blogger Challenge , which has the modest goal of $5,000. The notion is that I should p...

USPACOM Aids the Stricken: There is finally an official press release from DOD on the forces deploying to aid those in the path of the tsun...

Revolution & Disaster: The Associated Press carries a report of two hard-fought revolutions, interrupted by the recent quake: Two of th...

Charity & Goodwill: There's more of the former than the latter, these days. In the event that you should wish to exercise some towa...

Earthquake: I went to bed too early last night. It seemed quiet when I laid down my head. This morning I wake to find that my email has swe...

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...