The Search for Booker
Fox News reports that federal authorities have launched a nationwide manhunt for a military recruit who planned a “Fort Hood-style jihad” against his fellow soldiers. Here’s the good news (so…
Out With a Bang
North and South Korea engaged in a little sabre rattling today, firing hundreds of artillery shells into each other’s territorial waters along the so-called Northern Limit Line (NLL), the naval…
Buh-bye Dave
When Elvis died in 1977, one show business wag called it a “good career move,” noting that a performer who had become irrelevant (or worse) in his latter years would…
Connect the Dots (and Follow the Money)
While the NBA takes a bow for adroitly handling the Donald Sterling fiasco, they might want to take a step back and look at the next steaming pile they’re about…
Your Monday Morning Briefing
Ran across this recent PowerPoint from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, which paints a grim picture of Air Force combat capabilities against more technically-advanced foes. The study, authored…
Bread, Circuses and Game Shows
President Obama finally offered his first, extended remarks on the VA scandal yesterday. It was the sort of calculated, deceptive performance we’ve come to expect from the administration; the President…
Helping "Bradley" Become "Chelsea"
When Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was convicted last year of passing reams of classified information to Wikileaks, we predicted that the former private wouldn’t simply disappear into a cell…
"The Man Who Won the War for Us"
American troops prepare to go ashore in a Higgins Boat on D-Day, June 6, 1944 They remain iconic images of the “Longest Day:” American GIs, gathered behind the ramp of…
Saving Kurdistan
A convoy of ISIS fighters rolls toward the conquest of another Iraqi city. As government security forces dissolve, the Kurdish Peshmerga may be the only military forces capable of defeating…
Today's Reading Assignment
..The estimable Ralph Peters, writing at National Review online, examines how the Obama Administration has made a mockery of military honor with the Bowe Bergdahl case. A brief excerpt: “If…