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VietNOW
My father told me once why we lost Vietnam. In a nutshell, Washington ran the war while the troops did the dying. LBJ boasted that an outhouse couldn’t be bombed without his OK. It’s true, target lists...
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Why didn’t anyone notice this?
The Cold War’s over, John. But with no clear enemy to stockpile against, the arms market’s flat. But bring down a fully loaded 727 into the middle of New York City and you’ll find a dozen tinpot...
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THAAD:
I have a buddy with one of the THAAD line units at Fort Bliss. These pics show parts of the system and the flight tests they used to have at WSMR. They have to use Hawaii now because the missiles fly...
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Happy 4th!
And on July 4th 1776 this happened: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among...
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Gunwalker gets Bad…
Taking some time to post this: “Phil Jordan, a former CIA operative and one-time leader of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s El Paso Intelligence Center, claims that the Obama administration is...
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You blew it up!
Stupid baby boomers. I’ve harped on them before. But it’s worth mentioning again: Yet as troubling as that may be, the sixties were in many ways the Boomers’ finest moment. It was at least a fad then...
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Drones
Bill Clinton was accused of having a “cruise missile” foreign policy. Instead of sending ground forces after Bin Laden, he had the Air Force and Navy hit his compounds in Sudan and Afghanistan from...
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Dear New York Times
Go take a long walk off a short pier. We, those of us who served in the military, defended your 1st Amendment rights. Some of us even bought your paper. And how do you thanks us? Much of that is...
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#Occupy
Well, well, what do we have here? The “99%”…as they call themselves. Spoiled brats who can’t seem to figure out why the real 99% don’t embrace brain-dead leftist talking points. “Take, for example, the...
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It’s still our Army
The amount of epic fail in the following is not recommended for anyone with a medical condition: We the People’ need to understand: it’s not longer our army; it hasn’t been for years; it’s theirs and...
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7 Dec, 1941
Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and...
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Iraq is “over”
So says Tom Hayden: As the United States completes its withdrawal from Iraq, it is worth pausing to remember the determined peace activists who opposed the war from the start, including one who took up...
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Syria, the center cannot hold
Seems that Iran’s puppet Syria is about to fall apart. In his first full-length newspaper interview, General Mustafa al-Sheikh, who has taken refuge in Turkey, gave an apocalyptic insider’s view of the...
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Can’t get to the choppa…
So it seems that the Air Force is trying to replace it’s old UH-1 Huey’s. USAF Still Deciding What it Wants in New Choppers By John Reed Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 12:04 pm Posted in Air, Policy Air...
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America’s Army: We don’t need no stinkin’ draft
The year was 2004. Talk all over the interwebs and on tv was that George W. Bush was going to start a draft. Democrats were doing poorly at the polls despite rallies and protests. “Today, more than 30...
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Alone
“In Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital (1995) Putnam surveys the decline of “social capital” in the United States of America since 1950. He has described the reduction in all the forms...
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Acts of Cowardice
Aside from the pwnage of the hipster liberal crowd, this troika of pundits shows what I’ve always suspected: liberals hate the west and the USA. They really hate the military. Hate it so much they...
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Basic Training at Fort Bliss circa 1985
Back in the day, Fort Bliss was a basic training post. Many soldiers did their basic “up on the mountain” known as Logan Heights. Today that complex is all housing. Basic ended in 1990, AIT went to...
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Mighty Mites: Zumwalt, “high tech” and China
“Zumwalt reshaped the Navy’s effort to replace large numbers of aging World War II-era vessels, a plan called “High-Low.” Instituted over the resistance of Admiral Hyman Rickover and others, High-Low...
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More of that Smart Diplomacy we were promised[tm]
“We have confronted the Russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to Syria,” Mrs. Clinton said at an appearance with President Shimon Peres of Israel. “They have, from time to time, said...
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