Iraqi Chicken Farmers Get Jumpstart With Egg Delivery

" BAGHDAD, April 28, 2008 – Chicken farmers in Mahmudiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, received the jumpstart their industry needed with the arrival of 45,000 eggs, each ready for hatching. Army Capt. Benjamin Neusse, a civil military operations officer with 3rd...

Stocks Vote for Bush by Larry Kudlow

"It has been widely reported that President Bush simply refuses to turn against the surge in Iraq, or even compromise on it. At the same time he admonishes Congress to toss out troop-withdrawal timetables and to give General Petraeus’s new counterinsurgency plan time to...

LtGen James Mattis' Reading List

"LtGen James Mattis' Reading List Commander, United States Marine Corps Forces, Central Command Reading List Commander's Intent: The Global War on Terrorism is a long war, and as such we need to continue our preparation to be engaged in all aspects of this war. For our...

Pay attention to jihad by Diana West

" "If I were a Muslim, I'd probably be a jihadist. The thing that drives these guys -- a sense of adventure, wanting to be part of the moment, wanting to be in the big movement of history that's happening now -- that's the same thing that drives me, you know?" No. I don't...

Back Iraqi Nationalists and Get Out by Charley Reese

"Gen. David Petraeus, touted by the Bush administration as the potential savior of the Iraq debacle, is like a lot of officers these days, a four-star general with relatively little combat experience. He led the 101st Airborne Division during the initial invasion of Iraq and...

Can This Washington Be Saved? Can This War? After the veto by Symposium

" On Tuesday night, President Bush vetoed the supplemental war-funding bill. National Review Online asked a group of experts, who include a former senator, a former Cabinet secretary, an Iraq-war vet, a relative of an American murdered on September 11, 2001, a historian, and...

Democrats' Timetable Allows U.S. War in Sunni Region to Go On

"The language on a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq voted out of the House-Senate conference committee this week contains large loopholes that would apparently allow U.S. troops to continue carrying out military operations in Iraq's Sunni heartland indefinitely. The...

Petraeus Ex Machina by Arianna Huffington

"So Petraeus says it will take 120,000 soldiers to succeed. Instead, he's being asked to do it on the cheap -- and pretend that he's getting what he needs. And this is just in terms of troops. Petraeus' manual also says that a muscular military presence is just 20 percent of...

On Kilcullen's 28 Articles

David Kilcullen is a counterinsurgency theorist who is currently a senior adviser to Gen David Petraeus.  At the blog of Small Wars Journal, a series of posts (here, here, here and here) in which officers and other participants  "from the field" comment on Col...

Military Is Ill-Prepared For Other Conflicts

"Military Is Ill-Prepared For Other Conflicts By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 19, 2007; Page A01 Four years after the invasion of Iraq, the high and growing demand for U.S. troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the United...

Common Ground Common Sense: The Good Counterinsurgency

"anuary 19, 2007 12:00 AM The Good Counterinsurgency From Iraq to Afghanistan. By Rich Lowry If a weak, sectarian-tinged government is struggling to maintain itself in the midst of an intensifying insurgency, Democrats are eager to help. So long as that government is in Kabul...

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