The Manifestation: I sewed the White Cross of Denmark to the left shoulder of my coat, and went down to Christopher Hitchen's rally in ...

COUNTER-Insurgency: The COUNTERCOLUMN has a lengthy, and excellent, piece on US Army efforts to build and improve counterinsurgency trainin...

The Askariya Mosque: It has been the insurgent's primary strategy for quite some time to divide Shi'ite and Sunni through attacks. ...

Rape, Italy, Violence: Also at Cassandra's place, the Cotillion is having its regular festival. It includes several interesting pieces...

Showdown: If you're still in the mood for a long and thoughtful post on a difficult problem, our Cassidy has one over at her other plac...

Honor & Dishonor: We have come to a point at which there is a lot of talk about whether our fighting men are praiseworthy or not. We ar...

Test: This post is a test to see if the repair is successful.

Honor & Hackett: I'm going to write a post about honor and dishonor in the next few days; I just need a little longer to think it th...

A Toast: On the occasion of the first anniversary of losing one of our own . I never met him either, but those of you who recognize the nam...

You Say That Like It's A Bad Thing: The Commissar is deeply amused by a recent U. Washington resolution: IT RESOLVED BY THE ASSOCIATED...

The Lion-hearted Men of the US Cavalry: Cavalry Scout posted something I saw first when JHD sent it to me: an open letter to the 3rd ACR: ...

Cowboy Fast-Draw: There's no doubt at all that the old fast-draw movies were a Hollywood, rather than a Western, fixture. Fighting men ...

SciFi: I took the SciFi Crew Quiz . I split between Serenity and Cowboy Bebop, at 94% each.

Bat Masterson Speaks: I haven't really had time to read up on the Dick Cheney story, although I expect the Commissar is correct about t...

A Letter to the Left: Readers of Opinion Journal's Best of the Web know that author James Taranto has a long-running joke by which he r...

Military History, Street Level: JHD sends a link to a Gunny's book about his part of the war in Iraq. Street Fight in Iraq is written...

A Bit of Snow: We had a bit of snow over the weekend: One of the hazards of hanging out with an artist is that she will be overcome with the...

What a Shot: I think I once related the time I attended a Tactical match near Ballground, Georgia, and watched an old gentleman shoot. He w...

The Other War: A few notes on a topic that interests me, though we don't much cover it here: Border Violence Alarms Chertoff . "Th...

Holly's Book: I knew that Holly Aho was a wonderful person, because of the work she does on behalf of our servicemen. Still, a wonderfu...