May 24th, 2012
Two female soldiers are suing the U.S. government over restrictions on women in combat, claiming that the policies violate their constitutional rights. (more)
April 27th, 2012
On Friday’s “The Five,” co-host Eric Bolling took issue with President Barack Obama’s Ft. Stewart, Ga. announcement of an executive order to crack down on institutions that “aggressively target veterans” for the G.I. Bill’s tuition assistance, saying that the men and women of the Armed Forces don’t need the president’s protection from so-called predatory institutions, as they have faced much worse on the battlefield. (more)
March 9th, 2012
“I think we would lose something in our ability to defend our nation if they had to be down in the trenches, fighting hand-to-hand with the enemy……..So there should be some sort of a combat exclusion, not based on women`s rights but on the fighting ability of the armed forces.“ General Norman Schwarzkopf, Infantry Officer and Commander of Forces during Desert Storm, testifying before Congress in 1991 about whether Congress should allow women to be assigned to Infantry battalions. (more)
February 10th, 2012
Spirituality – the fifth element we must master if we are to achieve the whole-man (whole-woman) foundation in our quest for true leadership – may well-be the most challenging of the “five mountains” to climb (The other four mountains being the body, the mind, emotion, and intuition; which we’ve discussed here, here, and here). (more)
February 7th, 2012
In a rare insight into the front lines of America’s ten-year war in Afghanistan, an article in Armed Forces Journal by a career officer and three-war veteran says that official reports that conditions in Afghanistan are improving are false, hopes to establish proficient local governments and a self-sufficient Afghan military are fleeting, and the United States’ war effort can be characterized by “the absence of success on virtually every level.” (more)
February 7th, 2012
It seems the United States Army will be reverting to the condition it is usually in when a Democrat is President and Commander-in-Chief. I remember those days well. Back then the Army didn’t have enough repair parts to keep its motor vehicles running and its helicopters flying so combat units were instructed to selectively cannibalize non-running vehicles and helicopters to keep as much of the fleet operational as possible. (more)
February 3rd, 2012
President Barack Obama is urging Americans citizens to act like soldiers on a a domestic economic battlefield, presumably under his generalship. (more)
February 3rd, 2012
The first two articles in our Leadership 101 series (here and here) briefly address three of the “five mountains” of the whole-man (whole-woman) foundation we must master if we are truly committed to personal leadership development. The first three are the body, the mind (brain), and emotion. These will be examined in greater detail going forward. (more)
January 28th, 2012
A father who has lost two sons to war told The Daily Caller that the U.S. Central Command’s policy of allowing troops to deploy with a 180-day supply of the antipsychotic Seroquel has contributed to the deaths of troops and veterans. Seroquel, he said, has tragic side effects that military leaders have ignored in their quest to combat insomnia and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among fighting men and women. (more)
January 27th, 2012
WASHINGTON — It’s an unwritten law of modern America that a political campaign speech should last no more than 30 minutes. The lecture candidate Barack Obama delivered on the evening of Jan. 24 in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol came in at just longer than one hour and six minutes. It was full of rhetoric we should expect to hear reiterated from now until Nov. 6. The president’s supporters declared his economic message to be “populist.” That’s liberal-speak for class warfare. (more)
January 26th, 2012
The White House is hoping to end its ten year old war with the Taliban in Afghanistan through a political settlement. Let us all pray that the negotiations will be successful. It is past time to get our soldiers out of there. But as with most things in the Middle East, there is a little “catch” that complicates things and makes pulling out our troops hard to do. It is hard because the war didn’t start with political maneuvering. It started with the blowing up of the twin World Trade Center Towers in Manhattan. The war came in with a loud bang; it is unlikely to go out with a whimper. (more)
January 25th, 2012
On Tuesday evening, U.S. Special Operations Forces freed two aid workers — one American and one Dane — held hostage in Somalia. The hostages and their rescuers were unharmed in the operation, the Department of Defense reported. According to the Washington Post, nine of the suspected pirates were killed, with three unaccounted for and possibly captured. (more)
January 18th, 2012
Making the rounds is a short video showing four Marines urinating on Afghan terrorist corpses in northern Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Evidently the Marines were letting off steam after a firefight and washing the bodies with urine instead of following the Muslim tradition of washing the bodies with water and burying them within 24 hours. Without doubt this was an aberration and such conduct should not and cannot be tolerated by our armed forces under any circumstances. It would be interesting to know the combat circumstances that led up to this incident. (more)
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