A Stetson: Quarterly taxes being due yesterday, I don't have much to offer to Project VALOR IT right now. I will, however, make a perso...

Gifts for Bush: I have only one comment about this story : these people have outstanding taste in gifts. I'd be happy to receive any o...

OP VALOR IT: Grim's Hall has always supported Operation VALOR IT . Sadly, events here continue at a pace such that I haven't been a...

Bedside Manner: I went into see the doctor today to get a tetanus shot, on account of having stepped on a rusty nail. It took three hours -...

Intelligence Coup: When I began hearing about large numbers of Al-Qaeda in Iraq members being rounded up or killed during the past week, I a...

You're Welcome, Rabbi: Via Russ Vaughn , again: Thank God our safety is in the hands of these guys from the Midwest and South and not th...

So… I was spurred into pulling an old book off the shelf by Grim’s post this morning. I looked at that drawing, and then thought back to th...

Of Course You Realize, This Means War: A wee cartoon from the Arizona Republic : Russ Vaughn sends, and suggests that you might want to writ...

Bounty Hunting: Thailand has an interesting new counterinsurgency strategy it is considering: pay civilians to shoot insurgents . As you r...

Rite of Passage: It seems that I've been away from the Hall for too long. I return, partly because I have a question to pose to the memb...

Recruiting and retention seems on track. All Active duty branches have met their targets for the year so far for both new recruits and and r...

Three Guantanamo Bay Detainees Die of Apparent Suicide. Can you just imagine the conversations going on right now at Gitmo? I'll bet you...

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...