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Paul Hair

Why Doesn’t The United Kingdom Own Argentina?

British victory….in 1982 Argentina continues giving the United Kingdom trouble over the Falkland Islands. This is troubling but I understand why Argentina does it: the U.K. seems militarily weak as demonstrated by its performance in Libya and by other reports of its deterioration. And when a state that is unencumbered by political correctness and principles, such [...]
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Paul Hair

Afghanistan: Yes, We Can Kill Our Way to Victory

Diana West and John Bernard have been among the too few people noting that the American counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy in the Middle East doesn’t work. The Three Cups of Tea embarrassment and the latest Islamic murders of American Servicemen are only the most recent examples of the problems with COIN. Artwork by Bosch Fawstin, 2011: http://fawstin.blogspot.com/ The [...]
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Seth  Mandel

Congressman Schilling on Afghanistan and the Milestones in Marja

If you want an illustration of successful multinational counterinsurgency and the potential for civilian life in Afghanistan, just look to Marja, says Rep. Bobby Schilling. “Last year, if you were to go there, what would happen is you would be constantly fired upon, there was a lot of rocket launching happening,” Schilling, a Republican from Illinois [...]
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Seth  Mandel

How Islam Creates Terrorists, and How to Defeat Them

There are three myths about terrorists that must be corrected if we are to battle terrorism effectively, according to Col. Matt Venhaus: that Muslim youth become terrorists for economic reasons; that they become terrorists primarily for religious reasons; and that they are recruited by al-Qaeda. Contrary to conventional wisdom, terrorists are not motivated by poverty; they [...]
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Seth  Mandel

On Churchill’s Birthday: Why Barack is No Winston

In the midst of WWII and the struggle against the Nazis, Winston Churchill made one of his most famous pronouncements: “You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory; victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, [...]
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Seth  Mandel

WikiLeaks: ‘Americans are Getting Cyberscrewed’

“Americans are getting cyberscrewed” with no comprehensive plan to prevent it, according to James Carafano, deputy director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at the Heritage Foundation. “This is a 24/7/365-until-you-die kind of competition, and the people that are going to thrive and survive … are people that are top-notch cyber-competitors,” [...]
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Seth  Mandel

Musharraf: ‘Are We to Be Abandoned Again?’

A defiant Pervez Musharraf questioned whether Pakistan will be “abandoned” by the U.S. and insisted his country has made no strategic mistakes in its participation in the war on terror. The former Pakistani president, in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 10 at a forum sponsored by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, said that almost immediately after [...]
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Seth  Mandel

McCain: Hasty Afghanistan Exit Will Push India into the Arms of Russia and Iran

Sen. John McCain on Friday said that Islamist terrorism emanating from Afghanistan and Pakistan is the main obstacle to South Asian peace and the U.S.-India relationship, and that a precipitate withdrawal from Afghanistan would “deepen India’s reliance on Russia and Iran.” “I can think of few more immediate ways to damage the U.S.-India relationship–and to convince [...]
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CDR Phibian "Sal" Salamander

Gen. Conway Fulfilling His Duty; Says Withdrawl Date ‘Giving Our Enemy Sustenance’

One of the most important military books of the last 20 years was written by then Maj. (now Brigadier General) H.R. McMaster, USA - the 1997 Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam.
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Dave Reaboi

Big Peace Exclusive Interview: Col. Allen West

embedded by Embedded Video Last week I caught up with Congressional candidate Lt. Col. Allen West (US Army, Ret.) before he gave the Sunday Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Boca Raton, Florida. Meeting Allen in a small park built as a monument to Martin Luther King, Jr. was so fitting, as was his sermon that [...]
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