Month: December 2017

Air Force Times has the latest on Major Jill Metzger, the personnel officer who went missing in Kyrgyzstan last fall, touching off an international incident. As readers of this blog…

We’re learning a bit more about that infamous videotape that “sunk” the career of Chicago TV reporter Amy Jacobson. You’ll recall that she was fired by her employer (WMAQ-TV), after…

Readers of this blog know that we’ve been following the case of Air Force Major Jill Metzger, whose disappearance in Kyrgyzstan last September touched off an international incident. Metzger disappeared…

The Associated Press headline is a bit misleading: “Air Force Quietly Builds Presence in Iraq,” suggests that the service has somehow returned to the war, after taking a bit of…

Middle East “experts” insist that the U.S. (and Israel) have no choice but to back Fatah in its struggle with Hamas for “leadership” of the Palestinian people. We’ve questioned the…

It’s been a tough couple of weeks for the junior Senator from Virginia. Yesterday, Democrat Jim Webb provided the “Sunday talk show soundbite of the week” for his heated exchanged…

North Korea’s apparent shut-down of its Yongbyon nuclear facility will probably be hailed as a victory for diplomacy, as manifested by the Bush Administration’s “Six Party” approach for dealing with…

The chattering class is abuzz over today’s scheduled release of key findings from a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the terrorist threat to the United States. Excerpts from the document…

General Wayne Downing (1940-2007) In five decades of public service, General Wayne Downing accomplished something that is rare in the armed services. He became a hero in the Army (and…

More than 200 members of Congress are slated to gather at the Pentagon this morning, for a secure video teleconference (TVC) with General David Petraeus, our senior commander in Iraq,…