The circus act we’re witnessing in the handling of Libya’s revolt is what the world looks like without American leadership. And before you accuse me of nativism, it’s obvious that if America doesn’t take the lead on international events, nobody else has the combination of expertise and assets to do it...
Remember all those liberals parroting the “democracy won’t work in the Middle East” conventional wisdom during an eight-year tantrum against George W Bush? Well, it seems those same liberals are now cheering on the democracy advocates demonstrating throughout the Greater Middle East...
The United States Navy is beginning a new era even as one begins to dim. Edwards AFB [CA] saw the dawn of carrier-borne unmanned combat aircraft on one day, and the next, a Cold War icon was laid to rest at Puget Sound [WA] Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. At 1409PST, a small aircraft...
I received word today (January 9th, 2011), that Major Richard “Dick” Winters passed away quietly on January 2, 2011. Although I never did get to meet him, I feel honored to have exchanged emails with him. For those of you who don’t know I served in the 506th Infantry Regiment in Korea...
The Chinese unified the Korean Peninsula in the 7 th Century, and a series of dynasties ruled Choson until 1910. The Japanese imposed a treaty on Korea in 1874 (guaranteeing access to trade), sparking the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). Upon winning the war, Japan annexed Korea as a protectorate. Korean...
WASHINGTON — How did a hacker in Malaysia manage to penetrate a computer network operated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland? And what was the same accused cybercriminal doing this summer when he allegedly tapped into the secure computers of a large Defense Department contractor that managed systems...
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee [1] has approved the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (popularly known as the New START Treaty ) [2] for a floor-vote by the full US Senate [3...
We learn in school that World War I ended on June 19, 1919 with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles; however, fighting actually ended seven months earlier, at the passing of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, what was to become known as Veterans Day, ended the hostilities...
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For those of you who have served, for those of you who haven’t. If you look up the word HERO in the dictionary, this is the face you will see staring back at you. Tango Mike Mike - Roy P. Benavidez
Pre-Colombian maps of “the world” sported this phrase just westward of the Pillars of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar) because no one had sailed out there, and ignorance always breeds fear and myth. Just look at how a neighborhood organizer views the greater world – fear: “I’ll...