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Iraq’s “Concerned Local Citizens” Program Grows into a Bona-Fide Phenomenon
During the year that General Petraeus and his counterinsurgency force have been on the ground in Iraq, the Concerned Local Citizens program — until recently a tiny, localized “neighborhood watch”...
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‘Bin Laden’s Legacy’: Al Qaeda’s Economic War on the West
TEN YEARS HAVE passed since terrorists hijacked airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In that period, America has fought wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, carried out...
View ArticleWhy We’re Not Going to War with Iran
“U.S. Ponders Ways to Use Force on Iran” “Here’s How the U.S. Could Invade Iran” “U.S. Said Set to Attack Iran” “Does [the U.S. President] Plan to Invade Iran?” “Saudis Deny U.S. Planned to Attack...
View ArticleRethinking the Calls for Intervention in Syria (Updated)
My RedState colleague and good friend Victoria Coates recently wrote a post calling for a humanitarian intervention in Syria on behalf of the opposition and civilians who are being killed daily by...
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The Degüello: The Story of One Special Forces A-Team and the Mission of a...
JUST WEEKS AFTER the attacks of September 11, 2001, a small number of elite special operators were inserted into northern Afghanistan. The Degüello, by Special Forces veteran Scott Zastrow, tells the...
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Act of Valor: A Review and Commentary
Act of Valor ★★★★ (out of 5) Directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh 111 minutes THERE IS NO question that Act of Valor is a unique film, for many reasons. The most prominent among these is inarguably...
View ArticleRace in Armor, Race with Shields: The Origin and Devolution of the Hoplitodromos
This paper appears as presented to the 2012 graduate symposium of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Ancient Studies, titled ‘Crowned Victor: Competition and Games in the Ancient World,’ on...
View ArticleAfter a Decade of Operations, Is It Time to Pull the Plug on Afghanistan?
As we hit the 10 1/2 year mark in Afghanistan, the state of trust and confidence between the coalition and the Afghan people is at perhaps its lowest ebb, and support for the war effort is wavering...
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Over the Brink and Into the Abyss: A Wartime Memoir from the Austrian...
THE BASIC HISTORY of World War II’s European front is (or should be) well known to every western adult and schoolchild. From the offensives that brought the majority of the European continent under...
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India, Abbottabad, and Osama bin Laden: Did New Delhi Assist the U.S. on...
The most-discussed “revelation” in No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden, by former Navy SEAL “Mark Owen,” is certainly Osama bin Laden’s status as unarmed when...
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