Over the last several months, at great risk to his career and personal life, LTC Davis has documented the deliberate misleading of the American people and Congress by the leaders of the Department of Defense. He has done his nation and the U.S. Army a tremendous service. Read more: Eisenhower, Danny Davis, Pentagon, Intelligence, Leon [...]

Imagine that a man who said there should be no freedom of religion for Muslims, or Mosques in America, and that America is in a religious war that pits America, a “Christian Nation,” against Islam was invited to address our men and women in uniform? Well, it’s happening. Read more: Islam, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, [...]

Imagine that a man who said there should be no freedom of religion for Muslims, or Mosques in America, and that America is in a religious war that pits America, a “Christian Nation,” against Islam was invited to address our men and women in uniform? Well, it’s happening. Read more: Islam, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, [...]

General David Petraeus is now the most influential figure in making American foreign policy. He has unrivaled prestige in Washington, he has close allies in the Pentagon and White House, and receives reflexive deference from President Obama. Read more: u.s. Foreign Policy, Iraq, Cia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, David Petraeus, Politics News Iraq news Military News Military [...]

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

UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times is reporting that on Wednesday President Obama will announce the drawdown of 10,000 troops by the end of the year — more than Gen. Petraeus and the Pentagon wanted, but less than 10 percent of the total U.S. forces there, and only a third of the additional 30,000 troops the [...]

In the Autumn of 2006, in the western part of Iraq’s Anbar Province, US Marine and Army units were taking dozens of attacks a day. Leaving one of the many bases we occupied in the Euphrates River Valley seemingly guaranteed a firefight, attack by a sniper or, more likely, a strike from an IED. Cooperation [...]

WASHINGTON — Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has put forward a baseline number of troops that the president must announce he will pull out of Afghanistan, saying that anything less would break Obama’s promise of a “significant” drawdown. “In my judgment, a minimum of 15,000 reduction in troops would be needed for [...]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s long-awaited decision on how many troops to bring home from Afghanistan this summer is overshadowing an impending change of arguably equal importance to the course of the war: the departure from Washington and Kabul of senior U.S. leaders with years of experience in managing the conflict. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, [...]