The Obama administration faces a crisis that has tested governments time and again: a general commanding a theater of operations who is not afraid to speak his mind or carve out his own direction. General Stanley McChrystal made his willingness to be that general abundantly clear via an interview with him and his staff recently [...]

The recent release of a previously classified military video by the website WikiLeaks has once again reignited the firestorm over the nature of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A central thesis of the people who oppose the war(s) based on this video is that it proves the barbarity and indiscriminate nature of US Forces [...]

There seems to be some confusion running around on the internet about the nature of the government of our nation, its founding document, the oath sworn by military members relative to that government and document, and the people. Let me try to clear that confusion up. The Constitution establishes a government of, by and for [...]

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. –Winston Churchill Michale Yon has the keen observations of an Army command sergeant major on the silent heroes among us. I sometimes wonder if Churchill, as he observed the heroism of the men and women of the RAF [...]

Via BlackFive, an interesting article from a French infantryman about his time with American infantrymen in Afghanistan. Perhaps, it’s proof positive that we still have the best military on the planet. I wonder if there’s anyone in the White House who would get this? DLH