War

Israel has bungled much of its offensive against Hezbollah, both politically and militarily, writes Bret Stephens in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. It certainly seems as if things have not only been going not ccording to plan, but the plan itself is a muddle of uncertainty and erroneous assumptions. Now that Israel is in for [...]

You’d expect a pompous blowhard like Hezbollah’s leader Nasrallah to declare victory in Bint Jbail no matter what, but events over the past few days suggest that Hezbollah at a minimum fought the IDF to a draw in the Shiite militia stronghold. The IDF has mostly pulled out of the village after declaring the mission [...]

Israel’s Golani Brigade lost 8 dead and suffered 22 wounded in a several hours long battle in Hezbollah stronghold Bint Jabil in southern Lebanon. Considering the many reports about how Hezbollah has built many intricate bunkers over the last several years, I was surprised when the IDF declared the town conquered and safe yesterday. During [...]

Forget the infamy of Srebrenica. Dutch commandos killed 18 Taliban savages in Afghanistan over the last several days. “If we had not done something then our soldiers could have come under fire and the construction of our camp could have been hindered,” Gen. Dick Berlijn, commander of the Dutch armed forces, told reporters in The [...]

Tomorrow is my last appointment with my hairdresser, as she has decided to join the Army and this is her last week as a civilian. Now there’s something that’s never happened to me before. She’s pretty much picked her specialist track already, from what I understand, and provided that she can make it through boot [...]

Check out this story in the L.A. Times about how civilians try to show individual soldiers support through spontaneous gestures, big and small: Many Americans have conflicted feelings about the Iraq war, but not about the warriors. The gestures of gratitude and generosity that occur with regularity at Peggy Sue’s — across Interstate 15 from [...]

Bottom line: If we hadn’t let Muslims, and in particular Arab Muslims, immigrate to America this would not have become a problem. 9/11 would never have happened. The Patriot Act would not have been necessary. In public President George W. Bush ridiculously claims that “Islam is peace.” In private, he understands that Islam’s followers are [...]

28-year old Swedish soldier Jesper Lindblom was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan last Friday. Three other Swedish soldiers were wounded by the blast, one of them is still in critical condition. Lindblom was a marine ranger when he joined the secretive elite unit Särskilda skyddsgruppen (SSG) in 1999. Sweden currently has some 100 [...]

Today we celebrate Veterans Day. Some can trace their soldier ancestors all the way back to the Revolutionary War, others to the trenches of WWI in France, or the bloodsoaked islands of the Pacific Ocean, or the snow-covered mountains of Korea, or the jungles of Vietnam. As we remember and celebrate our heroes of the [...]

German weekly Der Spiegel reports on the race-religious wars in southern Mexico, where whites, mestizos, indians, catholics, protestants, and, increasingly, muslims are vying for power.