Pen and Sword

President Barack Obama’s March 27 announcement of a “new strategy for Pakistan and Afghanistan” makes it official. He has no clue what he’...

If you’re not cheating you’re not trying. --Anonymous U.S. military officer As a naval aviator pal of mine once remarked, cadets i...

Young Mr. Bush and his handlers managed to squander more than two centuries of American progress. Two interminable armed conflicts and the...

President Obama has committed 17,000 additional troops to Operation Enduring Freedom, our misadventure in Afghanistan . His generals don’t...

[They] were not fighting this perpetual war for victory, they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guaran...

If you know neither your enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. --Sun Tzu Sun Tzu maintained that proper planning s...

We are witnessing what a military takeover of a superpower looks like in the new American century. David Pertraeus became the most dangero...

Parts I , II and III of the “Ministry of Truth and Peace” series discussed how Pentagon propaganda operations represent the confluence of ...