Long time readers know, and have generously supported, Fran O’Brien’s dinners for soldiers, primarily amputees, recovering from their wounds at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Bethesda Naval Hospital.
It was North Korea that torpedoed a South Korean patrol boat-an internationally recognized act of war that killed 46 South Korean sailors. It wasn’t an accident. As follow-on, North Korea announced that any act of retaliation by the South would…
Laura Rozen of Politico named names: “Rahm Emanuel has met twice with a group of rabbis, the NSC’s Dennis Ross has gone up to the Hill to talk to House Democrats and Senate Dems in recent weeks, the NSC’s Dan…
Turkey and Brazil announced they have “brokered” a “deal” to bring some percentage of Iranian LEU (Low Enriched Uranium) to Turkey. The “deal” is a fraud-without knowing how much uranium Iran has, you cannot know how much it “lent” to…
Following the dismantling of Saddam’s army, the U.S.-led coalition began training and equipping a new army and police force while we began building a new government. Even under Saddam, Iraq was a fairly modern country with a mid-20th century infrastructure…
The 2010 JINSA Flag & General Officers Trip to Israel took place during a period of political frustration between the United States and Israel on several fronts. The JINSA group, comprised of six recently retired American Admirals and Generals plus…
The Jewish and Christian holy days of Passover and Easter have passed; Shavuot and Pentecost are coming. In between, the 28th of Iyar-corresponding to 7 June 1967 and 12 May 2010-marks the unification of Jerusalem in the hands of the…
The UNIFIL political officer, meeting with the JINSA Flag & General Officer delegation on the Lebanese border, mentioned a “donors’ conference” in Beirut dealing with the issue of providing arms, funding and training to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). She…
It could not have been more explicit. Standing next to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington, Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak said if the situation in Lebanon flares into warfare as it did in 2006, Israel would not just…
The U.S. Department of the Army put out a request for information on “Afghanistan National Army Air Corps English and Pilot Training.”