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 European, Pacific and China-Burma-India “theatres of war.” We now have a new definition, courtesy of […]
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Missing the Mark – Again
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, 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 “news reports” on the 2004 Abu Ghraib photos, hoards of print and broadcast “correspondents” rushed […]
Read more The Heroes of 2011
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesClovis, CA – This little town not far from Fresno may be a perfect place to observe Veterans Day as our nation closes a decade of war. A quiet San Joaquin Valley community in the heart of our most populous state, Clovis has lost 10 of its sons – eight of them from Buchanan High […]
Read more Aiding and Abetting a Real War
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesPierre, South Dakota – The good news about Moammar Gadhafi’s demise arrived via my cellphone early Thursday morning. A friend from the Reagan administration, remembering the Libyan dictator’s attempt to kill my family, called to let me know and added, “You must be very glad to see this day.” But it doesn’t seem to be […]
Read more A Decade at War
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesTen years ago this week, America went to war in Afghanistan. At 1:00 PM on October 7, 2001, President George W. Bush told the world, “On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.” At the conclusion of his […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – When the U.S. State Department announced this week that it finally is going to designate the Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization, it was a nonevent for most of our countrymen. That’s because few Americans know how deadly the organization is. For that we can thank those at Foggy Bottom who […]
Read more “It’s What We Do”
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – Few of us will ever meet a Medal of Honor (MOH) recipient. Fewer still ever will have the opportunity to be of assistance to one. In part, that’s because “The Medal” – our nation’s highest military decoration, awarded for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, D.C. – First the good news. The war in Afghanistan is being won. As our FOX News team saw on our most recent trip through the length and breadth of the country, the Taliban and their al Qaeda allies are being defeated at nearly every turn. Though military operations and police actions are being […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesCamp Hansen, Helmand Province, Afghanistan – This austere U.S. Marine base in the Marjah District is headquarters for 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment – famous for action during World War II on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa. Dubbed “America’s Battalion,” the unit has adopted a new slogan in Afghanistan: “Front Toward Enemy” – the […]
Read more The Drawdown Begins
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesCamp Eggers, Afghanistan – Here on this NATO base – named in honor of Daniel W. Eggers, a U.S. Army special forces captain killed near Kandahar on May 29, 2004 – the president’s decision to withdraw 10,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year is getting mixed reviews. Reactions from scores of […]
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