Some Marines in Afghanistan pissed on a dead Taliban. And the Marines’ leadership is pissed off about it. As they say, it’s better to be pissed off than pissed on. These kinds of things are clearly not good, but they are also somewhat predictable. Let’s not get carried away in our condemnations. Americans, like our [...]
Posts Tagged ‘marines’
Marine Leadership is Pissed Off
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged afghanistan, Atrocities, Desecration of Dead, General Amos, Japanese, Marine Corps, marines, Military, Muslims, Pacific Campaign, Pissing Incident, Taliban, Vietnam, War Crimes on 15 Jan 2012 | 4 Comments »
Thomas Friedman: Partisan for an Illusion
Posted in al qaeda, Free Markets, Politics, Tom Friedman, tagged , 9/10, 9/11, 9/12, al qaeda, army, borders, castro, cuba, Davos, Friedman, gitmo, Globalization, Immigration, Iraq, Israel, marines, Media Bias, Military, New York Times on 1 Oct 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In between his paeans to folks in Bangalore wearing Nike shoes and drinking Starbucks coffee while talking on their Samsung phones, Thomas Friedman also likes to write about foreign policy. He infamously declared every six months for three years running that the situation in Iraq was critical and, by implication, that if things did not [...]
Rusmfeld: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
Posted in counterinsurgency, Iraq, Military, rumsfeld, tagged Abrams, afghanistan, air force, algeria, army, CAP Platoon, cold war, counterinsurgency, democracy, elections, Iraq, manpower, marines, Military, navy, Petraeus, recruitment, retention, rumsfeld, Sanchez, soviet union, strategy, surge, tactics, transformation, Vietnam, Westmoreland on 28 Sep 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the wake of the Cold War, the US military was cut dramatically. We went from a 750,000 man Army to one of about 475,000 today. The Navy and Air Force undertook similar cuts. We went from spending about 5.5% of GDP on the military to 3%. One consequence has been that the “all volunteer [...]
Al Qaeda, Anbar, and Fourth Generation Warfare
Posted in 4GW War, Iraq, Strategy and Tactics, tagged al qaeda, army, d-n-i, dni, fourth generation, Iraq, marines, ramadi, strategy, tactics, Terrorism, warfare, william lind on 26 Sep 2007 | 1 Comment »
William Lind argues that al Qaeda’s previous strengths–its fanaticism and decentralization–may prove its undoing in Iraq: It is reasonably clear that, contrary to the White House’s claims, the “surge” had little or nothing to do with the improved situation in Anbar province in Iraq. That security there has improved is a fact; a Marine friend [...]
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