The Political Strategy for Iraq: Iraq's new leader, Nouri al-Maliki, has written a piece for the Washington Post . He explains to Ameri...

Memento Mori : Successes in counterinsurgency are hard to come by. It took months and months to capture Saddam, who for so long seemed invi...

A Creed: JarHeadDad, in the comments to a post a Milblogs, pointed to the difficulties of the war for the families and the fighters. He the...

The Zeppelin Returns: So says The Scotsman . I've been expecting this for some years -- I think there's a market for "cruise s...

D-Day: Blackfive is running an excellent roundup on D-Day memorials. Today is the anniversary.

A few for the blog roll: I've been meaning to ask Grim to add these. Memorandum : Find out what everybody in the blogosphere is talking ...

Priorities matter. Confederate Yankee pretty much sums it up: "Mr. President, if you really think I care about gay marriage right now, ...

Back Out of the Saddle: We made it to Georgia. I can report that the boy loves to camp. No surprises there. The Blue Ridge Parkway is a lo...

Does this mean we now need affirmative action for men ? Women now earn the majority of diplomas in fields men used to dominate -- from biolo...

Who was it who once said it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt? Top ten signs you...

I'm going to kick around a couple things I noticed from Situational Awareness recently but haven't posted about. The first is this ...

Jumping out of perfectly good airplanes always seemed to me to be somehow wrong. However, this might change my mind. "A new military pa...

A Window into the Life of a Contractor: Most readers know by now that I work on contract for the DOD. For the last three years, I've be...

Names of Movements: John Derbyshire wrote, a while ago now : The Santorum business brought to the fore an outfit called "The Human Righ...

Marines = Doctors: That's the lesson I'm forced to draw from Doc Russia's first post since becoming a doctor . It's a list ...

Don't mess with Marines . Especially one who puts the lie to the old saying about bringing a knife to a gunfight. Yowza.

A Memorial Day Wish (For Good): I want to wish everyone a fine, reflective Memorial Day. I encourage you to visit MilBlogs and BlackFive ...

A Memorial Day Wish (For Ill): Deuddersun came by in the comments below to warn us about an anti-Marine Corps site, posing as a tribute. Be...

John of Arrgh! over at Milblogs points to a post by Tigerhawk that is spot on. Confront your shame and honor the heroes The following art...

WTF, over? Is this for real ? The Respect MP George Galloway has said it would be morally justified for a suicide bomber to murder Tony Blai...