While historians will be debating the effect of the counterinsurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan for decades to come, …
Civilians
Sequestration or Not, Defense Budget to Continue Its Decline
While many in Washington assume that Congress will solve sequestration by the end of the year–the problem Congress created when the Super Committee failed–recent comments by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) indicate …
Coming Soon to Your Town: Sequestration Road Tour
Americans will celebrate Memorial Day next month, and honor those who’ve died while serving to protect the rest of us. But some concerned members of Congress are going to skip their hometown barbeques so they can hit the road: …
Support For Japan’s Military Reaches Post-War High
TOKYO – It’s been a tough year for Japan, what with the earthquake and tsunami, North Korean nukes and China’s increasingly aggressive military. But there’s a silver lining for at least one part of Japanese society – …
Winter in Afghanistan
Those of us enjoying a rather balmy winter in the U.S. should know that Afghanistan – a wretchedly poor country to begin with – is suffering through a brutal winter:
The mud-walled hut in which four-month-old Khair …