The story of Rhodesia is an inherently tragic one. Europeans, who came to Africa in search of economic progress and confident in their power to spread Christian Civilization, soon found themselves swamped by demographic trends and nationalistic political ideas. These trends were the products of the very medicine and education that Europeans had brought to [...]
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Reagan’s Evil Empire Speech
Posted in American History, Communism, Ronald Reagan, tagged C.S. Lewis, Communism, Democrat, Evil Empire, Gorbachev, Nuclear Freeze, Reagan, Republican, Rhetoric, Ronald Reagan, Ronnie, soviet union, Speeches, Tocqueville, Whittaker Chambers on 29 Sep 2007 | 4 Comments »
Notice how much more coherent, articulate, and balanced his rhetoric is compared to our current crop of “conservatives.” In particular, notice that he recognizes our country’s earlier failings without rejecting these failings as something that wipe away all moral legitimacy to our past, as Bush and Rice have done repeatedly, comparing the savage atrocities of [...]
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 [...]
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