Some of you have probably already seen the Vanity Fair piece in which Christopher Hitchens wrestles how his worlds motivated a young soldier to enlist… and now, that young man is dead, killed by an IED while riding in an under-armored Humvee. Hitchens is one of my favorite writers; even when he’s wrong, his wit [...]
I don’t always agree with Ralph Peters, but his integrity and military expertise are unimpeachable and he is absolutely, angrily right about the impact of private contractors like Blackwater on the military.
The chief military prosecutor in the effort to charge and try the detainees at Guantanamo abruptly quits as the result of a dispute with his superiors. More than five years after the first of the detainees arrived at Guantanamo, only one war-crimes case has been disposed of–and that one by a plea bargain. Part of [...]
