Category Archives: Military

The best military in the world

Whatever you might think about the wars, you should know that even some Canadians think the United States has the best military in the world. DLH

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Rescuing Haiti

On Tuesday, a massive earthquake hit the nation of Haiti and, as current reports indicate, essentially wiped it out. Tens or hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, and hundreds of thousands or millions of people are now without … Continue reading

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2010

While it is impossible for humans to predict the future, it is possible to look at the trends of the past year and guess where things might head in the coming year. Here are several of my guesses for 2010:

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Hindsight and all that

One of the modern favorite past times of a whole lot of people who know nothing more about war than what they see on TV or read on the internet is to believe the so-called definitive accounts of so-called journalists … Continue reading

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Valor among us

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 … Continue reading

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