"The issue at Tailhook is not that we took a few liberties with our female party guests. We did." Just have to do one more Petraeus post. And its not to condemn him for slicing off what appears to be a fine hunk of tuna. I don't condemn him for
Category: Military
The forgotten war….and the forgotten people
Not that any Americans might have noticed this week, but the 2000th American died in the War in Afghanistan this week. I mean, its hard to pay attention to the tragic sacrifice of brave young men-when there are such meaningful issues like "what is real rape?" to argue about, after
Continue readingThe bad idea fairy shows up when you least need it.
Bad ideas just never seem to die. It would seem the adage is alive and well in the US Navy these days-at least when I read this little tidbit on the Navy Times web site. The V-22 Osprey is making more and more appearances on Navy aircraft carriers, renewing discussion
Continue readingThe open secret-that nobody wanted to acknowledge.
Sitting in the lounge minding my time until I can make the jump back across the pond and away from American Political Commercials. They suck-especially Romney's. Speaking of "suckage", I noted with satisfaction-GREAT SATISFACTION-the other day the following story in the Washington Post: President Obama is set to approve the
Continue readingThey said it would never come to this…..
But alas it has. When people were discussing the repeal of DADT, it was always pointed out that the aim was just to have things be "business as usual" and that the rather more overt things that cause older men like me to get all pissed off and cranky-would not
Continue readingOver time-they always wear you down.
It is called, "undue command influence" and it refers to the ability of a massive organization, sanctioned with authorities by the US government to regulate peoples lives-such as the US Military-to apply pressure on its judicial system to obtain a pre-ordered result. For the "good of the service". There are
Continue readingA red herring
There is a post up over at the USNI blog that really kind of made me angry. It's a good post, well written-but it's based on a flawed premise. Here I will set out to explain why. Ever since the Navy came out with its completely assinine policy about breathalyzers
Continue readingMeathead Flag Officers
Tom Ricks has a great guest post up about the military's propensity to create a lot of its own problems: Never have so few been supervised by so many doing so little. For the last ten years, the terms "field grade oversight" and "adult supervision" have been used entirely too
Continue readingJust now noticing it?
Lex just now has a post up-noting that DOD has started to trim the ranks of its flag officers. The article he cites points out that DOD is making about a 10% cut in the number of Flag Officers it has. He bemoans the fact they are not being given
Continue readingIt’s about time……
I realize with Arnold banging his housekeeper, its hard to focus on anything else ( don’t people use condoms anymore?). But one United States Senator has his eye on the ball: U.S. Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), and Jim Webb (D-Va.) have issued a statement declaring that the
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