Going to War Based on Intelligence Estimates? We’ve Done That Before!

In 2002, President George W Bush started pushing for military action against Iraq, which the Central Intelligence Agency had told him was building and holding ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ WMD, in violation of United Nations’ sanctions after President Saddam Hussein al Tikriti had sent his Republican Guard to conquer and annex bordering Kuwait. President Hussein’s …

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Cyrus Force – Iran A New Iran

We, the Iranian Americans of CYRUS FORCE, left our birth country, Iran, due to a Constitution that was imposed upon our countrymen by the Ayatollahs. We bring this to your attention today because we ask for a voice in the Senate. We believe that, with the help of the American government, Americans can facilitate the …

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The Iranians are crying for the United States to help them

Their candy asses having been thoroughly kicked, Iran wants the “Great Satan” to help them out against the evil “Zionist regime” in “occupied Palestine.” I am wryly amused. From The Wall Street Journal: A Battered Iran Signals It Wants to De-Escalate Hostilities With Israel and Negotiate Messages passed by Tehran through intermediaries seek a return …

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Men of Iron: When Tank Crew Evaluators Rode the Beast

In an era before risk assessments, blast gauges, and traumatic brain injury protocols, Tank Crew Evaluators (TCEs) rode into live-fire gunnery on top of the turret—exposed and often holding on for dear life. It was a different time, a different Army. Some would say it was when tankers were men of iron riding machines of steel.

My poem for PTSD Awareness Month…God bless our military!

The Sentinel There exists a chamber in the garret where all the secrets dwell, slumbering beneath the dusty shrouds meant to conceal them for eternity. The passage, a narrow one, remains barricaded, padlocked and bolted, defended with the strength and stamina, the fervor and fortitude, the power and potency, the brawn and bravado of a …

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World War III Watch: Britain goes all out neocon

Prussian Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke the Elder wrote, “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength,” which is frequently bastardized as “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” I’m old enough to remember when debates in the United States were all about matching the Soviets in …

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Casting Lines of Peace: The Story of the Baghdad School of Fly Fishing

In the heart of war-torn Iraq, amidst the chaos of conflict and the austere surroundings of Camp Victory, a remarkable initiative unfolded—one that brought solace, camaraderie, and a touch of home to deployed service members. This is the story of the Baghdad School of Fly Fishing, a testament to the healing power of nature and the resilience of the human spirit.