A better way to fight IEDs
By LT. DEAK CHILDRESS AND LT. JOHN TAYLOR
Just as you would not expect a sniper to engage the enemy while blindfolded, we should not expect forces fighting improvised explosive device forces to attack bomb-building networks in the blind.
DARTS & LAURELS
Cool the war talkTO GEN. MARTIN DEMPSEY for attempting to cool an increasingly heated national discussion about war with Iran.
Semi-transparent policyTO ERIC HOLDER, for declining to make clear the law surrounding the killing of U.S. citizens.
Don’t scuttle cuttersTO THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY for delaying, if not deleting, plans to complete the Bertholf class of national security cutters.
COMMENTARY
Perspectives
CHARLES D. ALLEN
In the summer of 1932, amid the Great Depression, several thousand veterans of World War I gathered in the nation's capital to express their discontent with the U.S. government. In particular, they came to protest the failure of Congress to pass legislation to provide veterans with emergency...
CHARLES D. ALLEN
In the summer of 1932, amid the Great Depression, several thousand veterans of World War I gathered in the nation's capital to express their discontent with the U.S. government. In particular, they came to protest the failure of Congress to pass legislation to provide veterans with emergency...
Perspectives
DR. STEPHEN G. WALLER
"It's déjà vu all over again" — the clever aphorism from philosopher and baseball legend Yogi Berra — comes to my mind nearly every time I hear or read a report about a military humanitarian operation.
DR. STEPHEN G. WALLER
"It's déjà vu all over again" — the clever aphorism from philosopher and baseball legend Yogi Berra — comes to my mind nearly every time I hear or read a report about a military humanitarian operation.
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