Tag: war on terror

VIDEO: Iraq crisis: Islamists force 500,000 to flee Mosul

The Editors - June 12, 2014

The Most Important man In America You May Never Have Heard Of—Part III

Richard C. Young - March 25, 2013

(Introducing The “Misery Club”) It was 3 April 2002. A group of Project For The New American Century neocons were penning off a letter to...

Dragon Fire II: 120 mm Heavy Mortar

The Editors - May 3, 2012

Since 1997 the US Marine Corps Warfighting laboratory is experimenting the Dragon Fire, Expeditionary Fire Support System - a mortar based system that designed...

Drones and Spec. Ops. Take the Lead in the War on Terror

The Editors - February 10, 2012

We have argued on these pages that the War on Terror should be prosecuted using a mixture of drones and Special Forces strikes based...

Cracks Showing in Afghan Façade

The Editors - February 8, 2012

We have continuously been critics of the sustained war in Afghanistan. After the first phase of the invasion, al Qaeda had left the country,...

Osama Bin Laden Killed in Pakistan

Richard C. Young - May 2, 2011

Source: Department of Defense By John D. Banusiewicz American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, May 2, 2011 – An intelligence-driven U.S. operation in Pakistan killed al-Qaida leader Osama...

Afghanistan – Still a Mistake

Richard C. Young - June 4, 2010

As you awaken today it is 130 degrees in Afghanistan and even 115 degrees in an air-conditioned hospital. And the seemingly never-ending sand storm...