Monthly Archives: April 2013

Military’s Holocaust Hypocrisy

As a boy in the ’50s I watched “World At War” narrated by Walter Cronkite.  I was forever marked emotionally seeing the films of the liberated concentration camps.  As a teenaged military history buff I studied that war to understand … Continue reading

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Obama’s “Arab Lie”

I have studied counterinsurgency for several decades.   I’ve taught it for several years.  So when Obama began running for president of the United States I recognized familiar TTPs (Tactics, Techniques & Procedures) common to insurgents and subversives around the world.  … Continue reading

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Budget Cuts Effect on Military Readiness – Really?

Cheerleader Generals Reading “Military Update” by Tom Philpott (“Some relief, but commissaries may get cut”) is like listening to the home town cheerleader.  In the  ‘80s General Shachnow – a true soldiers’ general-  said “anything above the rank of major … Continue reading

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