I get it, you’re a veteran. You’re proud of that, and you want everyone around you to know it. You have the t-shirts, the hats, and the bumper Continue Reading
Simple Simon Waxman’s Great White Lie
I read something really interesting a couple of days ago, it was titled “The U.S. Military’s Ongoing Slur of Native Americans,” and it went a little Continue Reading
The Creed of the Special Operations Fanboy
You know the type: he stands ever-vigilant to engage in total flame war with anyone over anything that challenges his Continue Reading
Uniformly Stupid: the U.S. Military’s “50 Shades of Green”
Ground warfare used to be simple: “Move to the sound of the guns, and shoot anyone not dressed like you.” Things aren’t that simple in the U.S. Continue Reading
Nidal Hasan: A Terrorist by Any Other Name…
In November of 2009, then-.U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan opened fire on a group of fellow Soldiers gathered for pre-deployment processing at the Soldier Continue Reading
An Armed Society is a Safe Society
The terrorist attack carried out at the Paris, France headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offer proof of a fundamental mantra: "when Continue Reading
Shut It Down. Shut It All Down.
So, Congress voted unanimously to continue to provide funds to military servicemembers despite the government shutdown. As a veteran, I’m Continue Reading
In Syria, Give War a Chance
Give War a Chance in Syria. Writing long before the GWOT, OCO, or whatever it is we’re calling our existential struggle against violent Islamic Continue Reading
Kerry, McCain, and the “Unbelievably Small” War against Syria
As I studied US Secretary of State John Kerry’s 30 August remarks about the situation in Syria, I was struck by how much of it revolved around Continue Reading
Go Big or Go Home (or just go home)
In reading the comments of U.S. politicians who remain curiously and frustratingly fixated on getting us into another “limited” or “unbelievably Continue Reading
What is Secretary Kerry Thinking?
So this Syria thing keeps getting better and better. And by better, I mean worse. A lot worse. Seeking to allay the concerns Continue Reading
The Question Is Not “What Do We Know,” but “What Do We Do”–The Case against Intervention in Syria
Much has been made recently about the war in Syria, especially the horrible chemical weapons attacks which have killed and maimed hundreds if not Continue Reading