In a Connecticut industrial plant, far away from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army accepted the delivery of the 1,000 AN/AVR-2B Laser Detecting Set, Dec. 7, 2011, which happened to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Exactly what is COIN? Simply put, it is the theory and practice of suppressing insurgencies that mix violent and non-violence methods to topple existing governments and to seize power. Indeed, COIN is a growth industry. Read more: Iraq War, Coin, Iraq, Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, Afghanistan War, World News Iraq news Military News Military Breaking [...]
Exactly what is COIN? Simply put, it is the theory and practice of suppressing insurgencies that mix violent and non-violence methods to topple existing governments and to seize power. Indeed, COIN is a growth industry. Read more: Iraq War, Coin, Iraq, Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, Afghanistan War, World News
Robert Jay Lifton has been a witness, in the broadest, most profound meaning of that word to many of the most traumatic events or movements of the past century: Nazism, Hiroshima, the Vietnam war and veterans, political and religious cults, torture and brainwashing, nuclear weapons and first-strike, capital punishment, the Armenian genocide, the Iraq war, [...]
Unlike the public sector, the private sector is bred for efficiency. Left to its own devices, it will always find the means to provide services faster, cheaper, and more effectively than will governments. – James Jay Carafano, Private Sector, Public Wars I suspect the vast majority of Americans would agree with Mr. Carafano. They probably [...]
Mission freakin’ accomplished. I don’t care how ironic that sounds to some, it’s true. Osama Bin Laden declared war on America, waged that war for years (and killed Americans in doing so), then hid for many more years, and was finally hunted down and killed like an animal. Mission accomplished. I wouldn’t care, at this [...]
Mission freakin’ accomplished. I don’t care how ironic that sounds to some, it’s true. Osama Bin Laden declared war on America, waged that war for years (and killed Americans in doing so), then hid for many more years, and was finally hunted down and killed like an animal. Mission accomplished. I wouldn’t care, at this [...]
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Nearly a decade ago, America’s War on Terror began as a manhunt for Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But over the next nine years, that anti-terrorism effort evolved into a multi-faceted crusade: birthing a new national security agency, blossoming into [...]
Osama bin Laden is dead. Do you know where your duct tape and canned foods are? The man we’ve been tracking for a decade, and the reason so many American lives have been lost in Afghanistan and Iraq, has finally been taken out by Navy SEALS in a Pakistan mission worthy of a Tom Clancy [...]
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Nearly a decade ago, America’s War on Terror began as a manhunt for Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But over the next nine years, that anti-terrorism effort evolved into a multi-faceted crusade: birthing a new national security agency, blossoming into [...]
