War on Terror
Several interesting reads about Iraq, Vietnam and warriors: Frederick Kagan: Al Qaeda in Iraq – How to understand it. How to defeat it. Victor Davis Hanson: The Former-Insurgent Counterinsurgency Robert Kaplan: Rereading Vietnam (h/t Instapundit) The Kaplan article is a particularly rich piece and worthy of a close reading. Here is what Villainous Company writes…
With a h/t to National Review Online, here is a perspective on the revolt by Iraqi tribes against al Qaeda, with the author – Australian Col. David Kilcullen, who just completed a tour as senior counterinsurgency aide to U.S. commander General David Petraeus – offering this “tentative conclusion:” As we all know, there is no…
Rhode Islander Rocco DiPippo, recently returned from Iraq, makes his Pajamas Media debut today…When detailed pictures of the police stations were dropped on my desk, I looked them over and thought, “How the hell will I get this job get done?” After six months of difficult work, all 17 police stations had been completed, on…
On Sunday, the NY Times published and op-ed by 7 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne in which they explained their reservations about the way the War in Iraq is going. An excerpt: Four years into our occupation, we have failed on every promise, while we have substituted Baath Party tyranny with a tyranny of Islamist,…
According to Newsweek: In September 2006, during a famous encounter with Fox News anchor Wallace, Clinton erupted in anger and waived his finger when asked about whether his administration had done enough to get bin Laden. “What did I do? What did I do?” Clinton said at one point. “I worked hard to try to…
Duncan Currie writes in The Libel Tourist Strikes Again: How to Kill a Book You Don’t Like: In late July, Cambridge University Press announced it was destroying all its remaining copies of Alms for Jihad, a 2006 book exploring the nexus of Islamic charities and Islamic radicalism. At the same time, Cambridge asked libraries around…
An NSA agent listens into a cell phone call between parties in Great Britain and Iran. This is what he hears…All materials and personnel are in place. We await further orders.Immediately, the party in Great Britain receives a return call…Begin operations in 2 hours. All primary targets are to be destroyed.Now, the NSA monitor detects…
Rocco DiPippo was the guest on this weekend’s 10 News Conference on WJAR-TV (NBC 10). Rocco offered his observations about conditions in Iraq and his criticisms of the media’s coverage of both the surge and the rebuilding operation. The entire program is available here. Rocco is also making some of the firsthand videos he took…
According to ABC news, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama will announce today that he is prepared to invade Pakistan, a nominal U.S. ally, to advance the War on Terror…In a strikingly bold speech about terrorism scheduled for this morning, Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Sen. Barack Obama will call not only for a withdrawal of U.S.…
Both Andrew and Mac have pointed to the NY Times piece by Brookings Institute’s Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack that claims progress is being made in Iraq. As Mac stated, it is important because of who is saying that things are looking up: “two severe critics of the Bush administration’s management of the war.” Afraid…
