A Little More Perspective (Wednesday, January 23, 2008)
Putting how much we've spent on war in five years into context
The Cost of Waiting (Sunday, September 16, 2007)
It's too high
The Surge Is Working!!! (Friday, August 31, 2007)
... or not
OK, This Is New (Thursday, August 23, 2007)
Active duty NCOs taking their doubts about the war to the New York Times, that is
Fred Kaplan Steals From My Playbook (Friday, August 10, 2007)
Hey! I saw that parallel first!
Why I Don't Write Much About Iraq Anymore (Sunday, July 22, 2007)
How many ways are there to say "no good options"?
See You In September. Hopefully (Sunday, June 3, 2007)
The costs of delay
Shorter Bill O'Reilly (Wednesday, April 4, 2007)
Cutting to the chase
Sunday Morning Talk Shows: Fire Hoses of Bullshit (Sunday, February 11, 2007)
And they're pointed right at YOU! DUCK!
The Coming War With Iran (Thursday, February 1, 2007)
In the distance, you can hear the drums beating already
Some Things Are Worth Getting Rained On For (Tuesday, January 23, 2007)
... and tonight I found another of them
The Hidden Danger of Escalation (Sunday, January 14, 2007)
What's the worst that could happen? Find out
"Surge": A Bad Idea By Any Name (Wednesday, January 10, 2007)
Put up or shut up, Mr. President
I Think They'd Better Think It Out Again (Monday, November 13, 2006)
Iraq, that is
Iraq: It's What's For Dinner (Friday, November 3, 2006)
Ah, the bitter taste of failed propaganda
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (Thursday, June 8, 2006)
Abu Musab al Zarqawi killed by air strike....
Tomorrow's News Today (Tuesday, May 30, 2006)
A place you're going to be hearing a lot more about very soon: Haditha....
Nice Work, Eisenstein (Wednesday, May 17, 2006)
Slavery! Fuck YEAH!
Too Many Dots (Thursday, January 26, 2006)
But then, one is too many
Bush to McCain and Congress: Blow Me (Sunday, January 8, 2006)
On torture, that is
And Now We Scale To New Heights of Ridiculousness (Friday, December 2, 2005)
Just when you thought it couldn't be done... surprise!
Why War Made No Sense (Monday, November 28, 2005)
Thinking about war at the grand-strategic level
2,000 And Counting (Tuesday, October 25, 2005)
A grim threshold is crossed
Death Comes to Brook Park (Thursday, August 4, 2005)
Heavy casualties hit a small Ohio town
Something To Think About (Thursday, May 12, 2005)
Over your morning coffee
"They Came Here to Die" (Wednesday, May 11, 2005)
In Iraq, the jihad continues
What Happens When You Ignore the Moral Dimension of Conflict (Friday, April 22, 2005)
It's not good
Attack on Abu Ghraib (Monday, April 4, 2005)
Al Qaeda attacks infamous prison complex in Iraq, wounds 40 US soldiers
Courage Under Fire (Wednesday, February 16, 2005)
The story of Marine Sgt. Brad Kasal
One Thing We Can All Agree On (Monday, January 31, 2005)
... is that Iraqi Election - Massive Casualties = Good
I Want to See... (Thursday, January 27, 2005)
this movie
Instapundit: Idiot (Thursday, January 20, 2005)
No! George Bush cannot make a mistake! It must have been... GREMLINS! Yes! Damn those gremlins!
Wisdom Where You Find It (Wednesday, January 19, 2005)
Now, if only someone was listening
Rumsfeld and Transformation: The Word is Getting Out (Wednesday, December 29, 2004)
Finally
Modern Propaganda (Tuesday, December 14, 2004)
An art practiced by both sides
Morale: It's Grrrrrreat! (Wednesday, December 8, 2004)
National Guardsmen to Rumsfeld: "Thanks for nothing"
Eyewitness in Fallujah (Friday, November 12, 2004)
Kevin Sites, blogging from the front line
Are We All Fundamentalists Now? (Tuesday, September 28, 2004)
A serious question
Bush and Rumsfeld's Destruction of the National Guard (Friday, September 24, 2004)
A case study in how to mishandle our troops
"What If..." (Wednesday, September 22, 2004)
Excellent essay by Juan Cole
Iraq Slips Slowly Out of Control (Thursday, September 16, 2004)
Military declares the Green Zone insecure
Iran Confronting US Forces in Iraq? (Friday, August 13, 2004)
Is Iran fighting a proxy war in the Sunni Triangle?
Public Opinion (Finally) Catching Up To Reality (Thursday, June 24, 2004)
The reality distortion field around Iraq is wearing off
Shipping Radioactive Material INTO Iraq? (Wednesday, June 16, 2004)
That's what we did wrong in the search for WMDs. We should have brought our own!
Too True (Friday, May 28, 2004)
Read it and tell me that he's wrong
Don't Use the "D" Word (Friday, May 28, 2004)
You're not supposed to eat your seed corn
Were We Gamed By Iran? (Tuesday, May 25, 2004)
Maybe
Four Detained in Iraq for Berg Slaying (Friday, May 21, 2004)
Did they catch them?
Hersh Connects Rumsfeld to Abu Ghraib (Sunday, May 16, 2004)
Lowering the boom on the SecDef
Al-Qaeda Claims To Behead American -- On Video (Tuesday, May 11, 2004)
Jesus Christ
Hackworth on Abu Ghraib (Tuesday, May 11, 2004)
An issue of leadership
Boyd and Iraq (Monday, May 10, 2004)
Learning from the best
Iraq is not Afghanistan (Wednesday, May 5, 2004)
Ted Rall: open mouth, insert foot
"Nightline" To Devote Show To Reading Names of Iraq War Dead (Wednesday, April 28, 2004)
Honoring the fallen
Dear Mr. President (Saturday, April 10, 2004)
Take the honorable way out
What is Going On In Fallujah? (Thursday, April 1, 2004)
Confusion in Iraq
A Victory for al Qaeda? (Sunday, March 14, 2004)
Let's hope not
Why Did Bush Let al Zarqawi Go? (Thursday, March 4, 2004)
A good question deserving of a good answer
Notes on the Ashura Attacks (Wednesday, March 3, 2004)
Crisis in Iraq takes a new turn
I Guess We Don't Count Them If They're Not Americans (Thursday, February 19, 2004)
Amazing
Gen. Abizaid Escapes Attack In Fallujah (Thursday, February 12, 2004)
Insurgents try to kill US commander in Iraq
The One Who Got It Right (Tuesday, February 10, 2004)
How we treat truth-tellers
What a Difference a Day Makes (Friday, January 23, 2004)
The Army needs to get its story straight
More Good Stuff From Dr. Record (Tuesday, January 13, 2004)
More thoughtful dissent
A Critique From the Services (Monday, January 12, 2004)
A scathing report from the Army War College blasts the War on Terrorism
Tallying the True Cost of War (Tuesday, December 30, 2003)
The hidden casualties of Operation Iraqi Freedom
Finally (Sunday, December 14, 2003)
Saddam is captured
Losing the War on Terror (Thursday, December 11, 2003)
More bad ideas from the people who brought you Operation Iraqi Freedom
The Battle of Samarra, And What it Tells Us (Tuesday, December 2, 2003)
Another day, another firefight. Right? Wrong
Deflating Salon's Draft Paranoia (Wednesday, November 5, 2003)
The draft bogeyman rears his ugly head
Faces of the Fallen (Tuesday, November 4, 2003)
Remembering those who made the supreme sacrifice in Iraq
Score One for Al Qaeda (Monday, September 22, 2003)
We're the gang that couldn't shoot straight
A Little Perspective (Monday, September 8, 2003)
Doing the math
Rumblings in the Ranks (Friday, September 5, 2003)
Maybe soldiers won't automatically vote Republican after all
The Minutes After (Tuesday, August 19, 2003)
CBS News streaming raw footage of Baghdad blast, and its aftermath
Hackworth on Rumsfeld, Guerillas, And the War (Monday, August 4, 2003)
David Hackworth speaks out
Bombshell: The Valerie Plame Affair (Wednesday, July 30, 2003)
Is intelligence just politics by other means?
"We Are Under Siege Out Here" (Monday, July 28, 2003)
Life during wartime
Wolfowitz: "Whoops" (Thursday, July 24, 2003)
Did I say that?
9/11 Report Finds No Iraq Link to al-Qaeda (RETRACTED) (Thursday, July 24, 2003)
Oh, what a tangled web we weave
Missing WMDs: Worse than Watergate? (Wednesday, June 11, 2003)
The bombs that may cook Bush's goose
So That's Where the WMDs Are! (Tuesday, June 10, 2003)
Weapons? What weapons?
Wolfowitz: Open Mouth, Insert Foot (Wednesday, June 4, 2003)
Oh, man... I don't even know where to BEGIN with this one. Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil Asked why...
The Media and the War (Monday, April 21, 2003)
John Callendar is running an interesting piece entitled " Media Coverage and the War at Home" that examines how the...
Too Good To Be True? (Thursday, April 17, 2003)
Well, isn't this interesting.......
Kevin Sites Captured By Iraqis (Friday, April 11, 2003)
CNN journalist Kevin Sites, who closed down his blog at the request of the network, has come back online with...
Justifications (Friday, April 11, 2003)
Hey, now you can't say nobody ever put flowcharting software to good use....
Apparent Victory (Thursday, April 10, 2003)
Well, it would appear that the regime in Baghdad has finally collapsed, and good riddance to them. They've been a...
American Gurkhas (Tuesday, April 8, 2003)
John Robb is asking an interesting question: if we're going to be fighting/occupying large parts of the Middle East for...
Another Friendly Fire Incident (Monday, April 7, 2003)
I've already noted one friendly fire incident from Iraq, but the BBC is running a story about another one that...
Your Tax Dollars At Work (Monday, April 7, 2003)
The Miami Herald is reporting on an Army chaplain with V Corps who is taking advantage of a weeks-long water...
Detritus of Torture (Thursday, April 3, 2003)
If you have any doubts about how repressive the regime in Baghdad is, read the BBC's account of the liberation...
"A Noise I Never Want To Hear Again" (Monday, March 31, 2003)
The odd duck of the Air Force for the last twenty years has always been the A-10 Thunderbolt II. It's...
Decline and Fall of the American Empire? (Wednesday, March 26, 2003)
The Guardian is running an interesting story on its site describing an emerging consensus in the financial markets that we're...
Next, Turkey? (Monday, March 24, 2003)
While everybody is focusing on the fighting in southern Iraq, another crisis is brewing -- despite warnings from the US...
The Six Lessons of 9-11 (Wednesday, March 19, 2003)
"The six lessons of 911" is an interesting piece looking at what we should have learned from our first brush...
"The Arrogant Empire" (Monday, March 17, 2003)
Fareed Zakaria has an excellent piece in Newsweek examining the underlying reasons for the world's backlash against our Iraq policy,...
Last Day of Peace? (Monday, March 17, 2003)
Well, the "coalition of the willing" has spoken and it looks like 24 hours from now the bombs may be...
Put Your Bombs Between the Minarets (Friday, March 14, 2003)
Kevin Sites is a "sojo" -- solo broadcast journalist -- who CNN has blogging from the front line between Iraq...
Dancing With the Devil (Cont.) (Wednesday, February 26, 2003)
After I posted my piece on Sy Hersh's observations regarding Pakistan, I got to thinking about why I found them...
Dancing With the Devil (Tuesday, February 25, 2003)
If you think that our #1 enemy in the world is Saddam Hussein -- heck, if you think our #1...
The Antidote for Terror is Knowledge (Friday, February 14, 2003)
There's been a lot of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) being spread in the media over the last few days...
"Invade and Abandon" (Wednesday, February 12, 2003)
As usual, John Robb's commentary on the Bush strategy for Iraq is dead on....
Dangerous When Cornered (Thursday, February 6, 2003)
Glad to see that our sound, well-thought-out foreign policy hasn't had any unforeseen consequences: N. Korea warns of pre-emptive strike...
Block By Block (Tuesday, February 4, 2003)
John Robb (COO of Userland Software, and a former Air Force pilot) is having some interesting musings about the upcoming...
Norman Ain't Stormin' Anymore (Tuesday, January 28, 2003)
Got doubts about war in Iraq? You're not alone -- Norman Schwarzkopf wants to give peace a chance....
The Case Against War (Sunday, September 15, 2002)
Recently, a friend sent me an e-mail that made the case that anyone who was leery of launching a war...
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