I just finished reading one of the best and most important books I’ve ever read. It’s The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret War by Stephen Kinzer. The book is fascinating and gripping. (Jacob Hornberger)
Private military and security companies (PMSC) are the modern reincarnation of a long lineage of private providers of physical force: corsairs, privateers and mercenaries. Mercenaries, which had practically disappeared by 1960 ....
OBITUARIES of Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese general who helped drive the American military from his country, noted, as The New York Times put it, that “his critics said that his victories had been rooted in a profligate disregard for the lives of hi
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan was kidnapped by gunmen who snatched him from his hotel and held him for several hours Thursday in apparent retaliation for a U.S. special forces raid that captured an al-Qaida suspect in the capital last weekend.
A bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, American and Afghan officials said. They were the latest casualties in a 12-year conflict that shows no signs of slowing down despite a drawdown in foreign forces.
Islamist commanders in the southern Somali port of Barawe said commandos -- presumed to be from a Western nation -- rappelled from a helicopter as they tried to storm a house belonging to a senior Shebab commander.
Vo Nguyen Giap, the relentless and charismatic North Vietnamese general whose campaigns drove both France and the United States out of Vietnam, died on Friday in Hanoi. He was believed to be 102.
Those of you familiar with rugby will recognise the opening lines from the Irish anthem for the International World Cup of rugby. We could add here to it by saying “come the day and come the hour; come the man and the country”.
Trends researcher Gerald Celente says President Obama’s handling of the Syrian conflict deeply damaged his credibility. Celente says, “It was the presidential amateur hour and reality show all rolled into one. I have never seen such poor performanc
Fox News is reporting a stunning theft of US arms by jihadist salafists in Libya. This news item will be made much of by critics of Obama on the right. However, military and government blunders, cost overruns, unneeded weapons systems, and general
Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck is sometimes credited with the proverb, “God has a special providence for fools, drunks and the United States of America.”
A pair of suicide bombers detonated their explosives outside a historic church in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 75 people in the deadliest-ever attack on the country’s Christian minority, officials said.
That chance is now fading for Hassan and many others who worked for the American military. As they face increased violence here, they find themselves trapped in a glacially paced visa program set up for Iraqis that will expire at the end of Sept
Will the history books record these past couple of weeks as the point the tide finally turned against our interventionist foreign policy? We began September with the Obama Administration on the verge of launching Tomahawk missiles at Syria.
The Navy said shots were fired at the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building, and a "shelter in place" order was issued for Navy Yard personnel. Rick Mason saw someone with a shotgun aiming down into the cafeteria.
Fears that the rebellion against the Assad regime is being increasingly dominated by extremists has fulled concerns in the West over supplying weaponry that will fall into hostile hands. These fears contributed to unease in the US
What looked like another U.S. march to war in the Mideast has turned in the direction of a peaceful settlement... ...But some parties want to resume the drive toward a U.S. attack, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern writes.