Well, we cannot PROVE that Obama was fiddling as Camp Bastion burned. :pause: I GUESS.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 17th at 09:00 AM  | 

I’m not actually too happy to drag our domestic politics in this, because people died and everything; but I suggest that fixing this situation may be just a little more important than the President’s current plan to go to Cincinnati and yell about the Chinese about practices that the Chinese have no intention of stopping, and that the Obama administration has no intention of actually doing anything about. Even if Ohio is a swing state this year.

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After a Decade of Operations, Is It Time to Pull the Plug on Afghanistan?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 15th at 10:44 PM  | 

As we hit the 10 1/2 year mark in Afghanistan, the state of trust and confidence between the coalition and the Afghan people is at perhaps its lowest ebb, and support for the war effort is wavering across the political spectrum.  Given this, it appears time to reconsider the current status of our effort there — what have we accomplished, and what do we still | Read More »

The Degüello: The Story of One Special Forces A-Team and the Mission of a Lifetime

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 18th at 06:23 PM  | 

JUST WEEKS AFTER the attacks of September 11, 2001, a small number of elite special operators were inserted into northern Afghanistan.  The Degüello, by Special Forces veteran Scott Zastrow, tells the story of the first unit to deploy: ODA 555, or ‘Triple Nickel,’ an A-Team from Ft. Campbell, Kentucky’s 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne).  Accompanied by an Air Force combat controller, the ten-man team infiltrated | Read More »

What if the tables were turned?

By: Bill S (Diary)  |  August 8th at 08:00 PM  | 

Yesterday, members of the Afghanistan Taliban murdered ten Christian doctors in cold blood, execution-style. These doctors, from several countries and church backgrounds (including my own denomination) had been providing medical services to Afghan villagers. They hiked for more than 10 hours over rugged mountains — unarmed and without security — to bring medical care to isolated Afghan villagers until their humanitarian mission took a tragic | Read More »