In a state of perpetual evolution, irregular warfare has undergone significant change since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in Iraq. And the only thing Colonel T.X. Hammes, USMC (ret) “guarantees” is…
The JINSA 2008 Spring Board Meeting held June 1 in Washington, D.C., featured a panel discussion on the “Lessons Learned from Iraq and Lebanon.” U.S. Army led off the talk. Dahl, Assistant Director for Politico-Military Affairs (Middle East) of the…
On June 18, Dr. Liam Fox, the Shadow Defence Secretary of the British government, addressed an audience more than 100 JINSA members and supporters at the University Club in New York City. Fox, a leading Member of Parliament from the…
JINSA was invited to Camp Pendleton to observe the newest tactics and equipment employed by our Marines. The June visit was hosted by Maj. Gen. Michael Lehnert, Commanding General, Marine Corps Installations West, and escorted by 2008 JINSA Flag and…
In September 2003, JINSA established the Deserving Soldiers Holiday Appeal through the guidance of Major General Sid Shachnow, USA (ret.). The Deserving Soldiers Holiday Appeal distributes funds to military families who are identified by their unit commanders as in critical…
Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz, Defense and Armed Forces Attache at the Embassy of Israel, spoke before a JINSA-sponsored a lunch in late April 2008 for defense industry executives. During the off-the-record conversation, Maj. Gen. Gantz discussed the range of threats…
Cross-strait tensions decreased dramatically in March when Kuomintang candidate Ma Ying-jeou, won the island republic’s presidency by 16 percentage points over his Democratic Progressive Party rival, Frank Hsieh. Having captured a two-thirds majority in January elections for the Taiwanese parliament,…
A record-breaking crowd of more than 750 guests gathered on April 10 to honor leading Houstonian Jeff Love with JINSA’s Houston Leadership Award. Vice Admiral Joseph Maguire, USN, Deputy Director for Strategic Operational Planning at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)…
Dr. Matthias Kuentzel, author of Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 (Telos Press Publishing, 2007), traces the origins of the virulent anti-Semitism that permeates Jihadi Islam not to the Koran but to Nazism. Kuentzel, a member…