Showing posts with label US Military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Military. Show all posts
Saturday, April 14, 2012

You could have heard a pin drop

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At a time when our politicians tend to apologize for our country’s prior actions, here’s a refresher on how some of our former patriots han...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Afghanistan is Hell, Time to Leave

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Afghans protesting the burning of korans By Alan Caruba Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman gained everlasting fame when he sai...
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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Obama Weakens the Military

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By Alan Caruba “Si vis pacem, para bellum.” If you want peace, plan for war. The adage is attributed to the 4th or 5th century Latin autho...
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Monday, December 26, 2011

2012's State of the World

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By Alan Caruba "Only the Dead have seen the End of War" – Plato For myself and a lot of other Americans, the killing of Osama ...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

US Navy's Lesbian Kiss Makes Waves

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By Alan Caruba For generations of Americans, the most famous kiss between a Navy sailor and a nurse occurred during the celebration of V-J...
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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Leaving Iraq

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March 2003, Baghdad, Iraq, Shock and Awe By Alan Caruba War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded s...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

WAPO Slanders U.S. Military in Iraq

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By Alan Caruba I rarely read The New York Times or Washington Post because the reporting is so biased it sickens me. Pick any topic, from ...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Super Committee Suicide

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By Alan Caruba By the weekend, news reports indicated that the congressional Super Committee was closing in on an agreement. The deficit-c...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The News from Iraq (as Usual) is Bad

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By Alan Caruba In the 1960s and throughout the 1970s it seemed that all I read or heard every day was about Vietnam. It dominated the news...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Disarming America's Military

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By Alan Caruba In the preamble of the Constitution, the founding fathers made clear their priorities and among them was “provide for the c...
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Sunday, June 19, 2011

America's Decline Follows a Familiar Pattern

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By Alan Caruba History is a relentless process and one that does repeat itself. Empires emerge, hold power, grow wealthy, and then find w...
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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Memorial Day 2011

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A poem by Henry Reed from World War Two captures the brutal absurdity of war as it depicts a new soldier listening to a field lecture on t...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Armed Forces Day

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By Alan Caruba Saturday, May 21, is Armed Forces Day. Unless you are on active duty, a military family member, or a veteran, I suspect thi...
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Monday, May 2, 2011

Jihad is Forever

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By Alan Caruba Americans greeted news of Osama bin Laden's death with a celebration of the payback it represents for the deaths of nea...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Pfc Bradley Manning, A Warning Writ Large

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By Alan Caruba “All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.” --Sun...
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Is Anything Secret Anymore? Depends on Whose Secrets!

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By Alan Caruba The one thing that the pundicracy---the columnists, former government and other folk who express themselves in print and b...
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

The Last Full Measure of Devotion

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Excerpt from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863: "But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—...
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Friday, October 15, 2010

Do We Need a Huge Military?

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By Alan Caruba In a recessionary era that promises to last longer than usual it is a good idea to reexamine our national priorities and n...
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