Your Monday Morning Briefing
Ran across this recent PowerPoint from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, which paints a grim picture of Air Force combat capabilities against more technically-advanced foes. The study, authored…
Connect the Dots (and Follow the Money)
While the NBA takes a bow for adroitly handling the Donald Sterling fiasco, they might want to take a step back and look at the next steaming pile they’re about…
Helping "Bradley" Become "Chelsea"
When Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was convicted last year of passing reams of classified information to Wikileaks, we predicted that the former private wouldn’t simply disappear into a cell at Leavenworth: “Just hours after…
Bread, Circuses and Game Shows
President Obama finally offered his first, extended remarks on the VA scandal yesterday. It was the sort of calculated, deceptive performance we’ve come to expect from the administration; the President expressed…
"The Man Who Won the War for Us"
American troops prepare to go ashore in a Higgins Boat on D-Day, June 6, 1944 They remain iconic images of the “Longest Day:” American GIs, gathered behind the ramp of…
Today's Reading Assignment
..The estimable Ralph Peters, writing at National Review online, examines how the Obama Administration has made a mockery of military honor with the Bowe Bergdahl case. A brief excerpt: “If this…
Saving Kurdistan
A convoy of ISIS fighters rolls toward the conquest of another Iraqi city. As government security forces dissolve, the Kurdish Peshmerga may be the only military forces capable of defeating the terrorists. …
Setting the Stage for Another Snowden
It happens after every spy scandal, or inadvertent disclosure of classified material. Congress passes a new law aimed at fixing the breach, the bureaucracy implements it, and….nothing really changes. The…
Fighting Back–the Right Way
Admittedly, we don’t visit Wal-Mart’s corporate blog very often. But maybe we should; there’s a recently-posted item that suggests the retailing giant may be taking a new approach with some…
The Winning Formula?
Somewhere, former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley must be smiling. Legend has it that John F. Kennedy didn’t know he had the nailbiter 1960 presidential race until he took a call from Daley…