‘Tobacco Ban’ Discussion Demonstrates Administration’s Lack of Seriousness on Military Affairs

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 14th at 07:17 PM  | 

Update: I have a brief op-ed on this topic in USA Today newspaper as the official “opposing view” to the paper’s editorial, “Our view on tobacco in the military: How to curb soldiers’ smoking.” The Pentagon’s office of clinical and program policy is recommending a “phased-in ban” of tobacco product use in the military over the next twenty years, according to USA Today. The recommendation | Read More »

America’s Air Force: No One Comes Close

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 18th at 11:06 AM  | 

President Obama and defense secretary Gates are still determining whether to end production, 183 planes in, of the F-22 Raptor, the world’s most advanced Air Superiority fighter. The rationale of those who are advocating cutting off the program is as simple as it is misguided: a belief that “the fighter, conceived in the Cold War, is a vastly expensive and over-capable weapon irrelevant to current | Read More »