Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Thursday, November 11, 2021

The Marlboro Marine

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Have a good Veterans Day everybody. The video's from the Los Angeles Times:
Thursday, January 9, 2020

Dexter Filkins, The Forever War

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, Dexter Filkins, The Forever War .
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After Leaving '60 Minutes', Lara Logan Makes Comeback on 'Fox Nation' (VIDEO)

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This woman is a beacon of truth and moral clarity, and of course it was too much for the MSM establishment hacks at CBS. Flashback to 2012...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Ukrainian Airliner May Have Been Shot Down in Iran

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It's just too big of a coincidence for me, but it pays to be skeptical. Maybe it was engine failure? In any case, at the Conservativ...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

What Tehran is Likely to Do Next

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I think we're at war already. It's been proxy war for 40 years. The latest is the rocket strikes on Iraqi military bases (targe...
Monday, October 28, 2019

The Strike Against Islamic State's Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Complicated Leftist Efforts to Destroy President Trump

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From Mollie Hemingway, at the Federalist: Here Are The Real Reasons Media Lost Their Minds When Baghdadi Died https://t.co/J2U5xEVSB2 —...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

The Final Humiliation of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

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It's Graeme Wood, at the Atlantic: My thoughts on the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the hirsute rapist who was the absentee Caliph of ...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Killed

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President Trump teased the news last night, and this morning he's got the far-left media in a psychotic tizzy. At the Other McCain, &q...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Searing Moment in the Middle East

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For the record, I'm not pleased with President Trump's handling of Syria and Turkey this past week or so. Not pleased at all. Yeah, ...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

After Five Failed Attempts to Escape Islamic State, This Yazidi Woman Tried One Last Time

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At the Washington Post, " After five failed attempts to escape ISIS slavery, she tried one last time ": After five failed atte...
Sunday, December 9, 2018

C.J. Chivers, The Fighters

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This looks awesome. Chivers is a Pulitzer Prize winner. At Amazon, C.J. Chivers, The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Fifteen Years After the Iraq War: A Veteran Reflects

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Not a neoconservative manifesto, but well-stated nevertheless --- and interesting. From Andrew Exum, at the Atlantic, " One Morning i...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Six Seconds to Live

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This is astonishing. Here, on Twitter . Wow. Read this. pic.twitter.com/gg4pkFL23Y — Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 23, 2017
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Brianna Keilar Reflects on War and Sacrifice

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I don't watch CNN anymore, and I didn't even know Brianna Keilar was married, much less to a serviceman, but I do miss watching her ...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Out in Paper: J. Kael Weston, The Mirror Test

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*BUMPED.* In paperback, available at Amazon, J. Kael Weston, The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan .
Monday, July 3, 2017

U.S. Risks Escalation in the Middle East

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I'm not that worried about it. I'd say the paleocon obsession with isolationism is bad for American vital interests. And I'm p...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

Holly Williams Reports from Raqqa, Syria (VIDEO)

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For CBS "Face the Nation": Also, at the New York Post, " A series of car bombs rocked the Syrian capital, killing at le...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Out in Paper: Clinton Romesha, Red Platoon

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Now available in paperback, at Amazon, Clinton Romesha, Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor .
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Bing West, The March Up

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At Amazon, Bing West, The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines .
Friday, June 16, 2017

J. Kael Weston, The Mirror Test

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We're sending more troops to Afghanistan, and President Trump has given Defense Secretary James Mattis authority to set troop levels  fo...