Moving a Mountain Out of Iraq

From Stars & Stripes, video of a soldier tasked with the US Army’s orderly logistical withdrawal from Iraq. Probably half of the much-ballyhooed Persian Gulf buildup upon leaving Iraq will actually be the storing and maintaining of all those containers you see behind Sergeant First Class Rivera.

Obama Beats All Republicans On National Security

The mission in Iraq is to get everyone and everything out by New Year’s Day. The mission in Libya has been to stay out, while the mission in Afghanistan is now to finish and get home: The 320-foot-high Kajaki Dam, built in 1953 with U.S. funds, is in a remote corner of the province. Securing […]

Applied Force In Libya

War is a blunt instrument, be your weapons ever so precise. Firepower has a limited utility inversely proportional to its explosive potential. Nevertheless, my response to those who say that ‘war is a lie’ is to ask the city fathers of Carthage what they think about the notion.

Barack Bush Bashing

The president proves he is just like Bush by repudiating the Bush doctrine. I’m sure there’s a firebagger who can explain to me how that works. The president has a habit of making major policy speeches to the corps of cadets; it provides perfect optics. Watch for another speech like this one next May in […]

Nuclear Options

Obama’s nuclear doctrine is the opposite of Bush’s, and was formulated in exactly the opposite way: The strategy to be released on Tuesday is months late, partly because Mr. Obama had to adjudicate among advisers who feared he was not changing American policy significantly enough, and those who feared that anything too precipitous could embolden […]