Ralph Peters had an excellent editorial on Afghanistan this week that I think lays out the problem with Obama’s half-surge: Initially, Afghanistan wasn’t a war of choice. We had to dislodge and decimate al-Qaeda, while punishing the Taliban and strengthening friendlier forces in the country. Our great mistake was to stay on in an attempt [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Military’
Are We Wasting Time in Afghanistan?
Posted in afghanistan, obama, War, tagged afghanistan, Counter-Terrorism, Enduring Freedom, foreign policy, islam, Middle East, Military, OEF, Pakistan, strategy, Terrorism on 27 Feb 2009 | 1 Comment »
What is Israel’s Strategy in Gaza?
Posted in 4GW War, Israel, Palestine, tagged Gaza, IDF, lebanon, Military, strategy on 4 Jan 2009 | 33 Comments »
Israel’s incursion into Gaza has the air of Kabuki Theater. We’ve all been here before. We’ve seen the Israeli armored vehicles sprouting menacing antennae and deadly antipersonnel weapons, the peacocking Hamas fighters and their impotent Qassam rockets, the dead Palestinian children and, in this case, the occasional dead Israeli civilian. The usual arguments have reared [...]
IED Report
Posted in Iraq, Military, tagged , Bombs, Car Bombs, counterinsurgency, Fiasco, IED, Iraq, Military, Ricks, tactics, VBIED, War on 2 Oct 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tom Ricks, author of Fiasco, has an excellent series of reports on IEDs in Iraq in the Washington Post. One of the most notable trends is a chart showing the number of IED events since 2003. The number is five or six times higher in 2006 and 2007 than it was in the first six [...]
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 [...]
Columbia and ROTC
Posted in Ahmadinejad, Education, ROTC, Solomon Amendment, tagged Amadinidjead, Columbia, DADT, Discrimination, Hippies, Iran, Leftism, Liberals, Military, ROTC, SDS, Solomon Amendment, The New Left on 27 Sep 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The University of Chicago Law School’s Geoff Stone says that Columbia was within its rights and fulfilling its core values in allowing Iran’s President to speak. I don’t necessarily disagree, nor do I completely disagree with his statement that “[b]ecause a university must remain neutral on all matters of public policy that do not directly [...]
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