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Theater of War

Washington, DC – My old American Heritage Dictionary defines the word “theater,” inter alia, as “a large geographic area in which military operations are coordinated.” Throughout World War II, official dispatches and press reports described military action and events in the … Continue reading

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What Goes Around

Washington, DC – Nine years ago this week, our FOX News team accompanied U.S. Marines as they swept into Baghdad and then north up the Tigris River to seize Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit. It took less than three weeks to … Continue reading

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Freedom from Religion

Washington, DC – “We don’t need you, so shut up!” That’s the message the Obama administration has sent loud and clear to America’s Roman Catholics. And it’s a message now being sent to U.S. military chaplains – to the detriment … Continue reading

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SOTU Surrender

Washington, DC – It’s an unwritten law of modern America that a political campaign speech should last no more than 30 minutes. The lecture candidate Obama delivered on the evening of January 24 in the House chamber of the U.S. … Continue reading

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Missing the Mark – Again

Washington, DC – Our so-called mainstream media have launched a new anti-military feeding frenzy. The furor is over a crude 39-second video showing four Marines apparently urinating on the bodies of three dead Taliban combatants. In hysteric rhetoric akin to … Continue reading

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Strategic Capitulation

Washington, DC – The U.S. military better get ready to do a whole lot more with a whole lot less. That’s the bottom line of the so-called “new strategic guidance” issued this week by Mr. Obama during a brief visit … Continue reading

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2012: A Tumultuous Year To Come

GEORGETOWN, S.C. – A year ago, this column questioned whether the 112th Congress — with its new speaker of the House, John Boehner — could “overcome the inane policies of its predecessors” and “mend Washington’s free-spending ways.” We all know … Continue reading

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Iraq – Victory or Defeat?

Washington, DC – They are coming home. For the first time since March 19, 2003, there are no U.S. combat or combat support troops in Iraq. There is still a contingent of U.S. Marines guarding the biggest American embassy in … Continue reading

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Remember Pearl Harbor?

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. – Seventy years ago this week, Japanese Cmdr. Mitsuo Fuchida led an airborne strike force of 49 “Kate” bombers, 40 torpedo bombers, 51 “Val” dive bombers and 43 “Zeke” fighters on the first wave of … Continue reading

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Incendiary Iran

Marine Corps Base, Quantico, VA – Our FOX News crew is here wrapping up our 100th War Stories documentary – with some of the “stars” of previous episodes. Though most of the Marines here are recent veterans of combat in … Continue reading

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