Last Friday, the U.S. military formally handed over its largest base in Iraq, the ill-named “Camp Victory,” to the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The next morning, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius officially declared counterinsurgency wars in...
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case brought by Steven Howards, a Colorado man arrested by Secret Service agents when he confronted then-Vice President Dick Cheney at a shopping mall and told him he thought the Iraq war was “disgusting.” Howards...
Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap! - Gen. “Buck” Turgidson, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb China is a vast country — "When it is dark in the east, it is light in the west; when things are dark in the south, there is...
Pressured by the need to shrink the federal budget deficit, Congress is insisting that Pentagon spending can't continue to grow at the galloping rate of the last decade. In response, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Congress in October that he's planning to cut...
Next week, as the country's Christmastime frenzy is in full swing, a 24-year-old American Army private will be on trial for his very life. His supporters say “we are all Bradley Manning,” and perhaps they are right. His first hearing since he was arrested in May 2010...
Ambiguous but alarming new wording tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and just passed by the Senate is reminiscent of the “extraordinary measures” introduced by the Nazis after they took power in 1933. And the relative lack of reaction so far...
I’m still in the process of moving – an epic effort which may interrupt my writing schedule periodically for the next week or so, but I just wanted to make this brief point. When I first became aware of the FBI’ s interest in this site, and their decision to launch an...
