Journal: MILNET Focus on Afghanistan

Interview With Dutch Major General Mart de Kruif, Former Commander, Regional Command South Phi Beta Iota: Read every word.  Highlights include: ;1)  Every province is difference (see General Zinni’s characterization of the six different Viet-Nam wars in Battle Ready) 2)  Climate and Ops Tempo, not the Taliban, are the major challenge 3)  Taliban losing, resorting …

Journal: Hubris Loses to Angst & Reality–Every Time

British student held over alleged airline bomb attempt Nigerian man reportedly linked to al-Qaida in custody after foiled terror attempt on transatlantic flight to Detroit Police identified the suspect as Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, 23. It is understood that he is an engineering student at University College London. One official said the man claimed to …

Journal: US Intervention Outcomes for Women Et Al

One of the main arguments made by self-proclaimed “liberal humanitarian interventionists” in support of President Obama’s escalation of the Afghan War is that a return of the Taliban to power will condemn women to conditions approaching slavery.  It is true that women’s rights in Afghanistan are almost medieval in character, but the central question of …

Review (Guest): Integrity–Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House

REVIEW BY  Russell J. Geoffrey (East Greenwich, RI) 14 of 14 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars INTEGRITY: easy to lose, hard to restore February 4, 2008 He was a Navy officer serving on the USS Yorktown by the age of 22, in law school at 26, a staff assistant …