“United States Army” on The Daily Caller

As a four-star general in the  U.S. Army, David Petraeus has just about done it all. (more)

Any day now, five people will toss one of the world’s most sophisticated remote-control planes into the air at the U.S. Army’s proving ground in Yuma, Ariz. It’s the latest incarnation of QinetiQ’s Zephyr, a solar-powered, high-altitude unmanned machine that unofficially set the record for the most time aloft in July 2008. It flew for 3.5 days. Now, its creators hope to break that record with the latest design tweaks. Their end goal is to fly for three months. But for this new version’s first test flight, Zephyr’s crew is aiming for two weeks in the sky. (more)

“That’s just name-calling,” she objected.  We were discussing the President’s competencies (and lack thereof) and I’d commented that we should hardly expect leadership from a Socialist law professor with little or no leadership experience. (more)

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To most people who follow developments in Afghanistan, it was clear that building a viable Afghan state would take more troops, more money, and more patience than the United States and its international partners could ever commit. These long-standing reservations were only intensified last November, when U.S. President Barack Obama announced plans for a 30,000-troop surge that would not only pacify population centers and train Afghan security forces, but also begin to wind down by July 2011—within 18 months of escalation. (more)

With federal red ink for April alone reaching a record $82.7 billion and the annual deficit expected to soar to an historic high of $1.56 trillion this year, Americans are fed up with wasteful spending in Washington. (more)

The resignation of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Dennis Blair, is a symptom of a more serious problem within the Obama administration than the failures of the DNI. It’s a problem that won’t disappear with Blair’s departure. Fixing it requires more than appointing the right replacement. It requires a hard look at the DNI position itself and how President Obama and his White House oversee it. (more)

The ” Kevin Costner solution” to the worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may actually work, and none too soon for the president of Plaquemines Parish. (more)

Not since Tim O’Brien introduced us to Lieutenant Jimmy Cross’s platoon in the “The Things They Carried,” has an author so successfully captured the primitive experience of combat as Sebastian Junger in his new classic, “WAR.”  (more)

Late Monday evening, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation pulled Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen off of a plane at John F. Kennedy International airport in New York. Faisal, wanted in connection with the attempted bombing of Times Square on Saturday night, is now sitting in jail and charged with five counts, including attempting to detonate a weapon of mass destruction. Questions about how close Faisal came to escape aside, we must applaud the impressive performance by federal, state and local law enforcement that the lead to this rapid arrest. (more)

A Vietnam veteran, on April 30, the 35th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, I reflected on my two tours of duty there. On May 1, “Immigration-Day,” I watched protesters on television march in opposition to Arizona’s new law on illegal immigration and the failure of the federal government to enact “comprehensive” immigration reform. They reminded me of anti-Vietnam-War protests, and got me thinking about what they have in common. (more)

On one of her recent Facebook status updates a friend made reference to the Academy Award winning movie, “The Hurt Locker,” calling it “the most intense thing she’s ever watched.”  From Facebook to Twitter to the blogs and the mainstream media, “The Hurt Locker” has gained more attention recently than when it first hit the screen last summer.  The movie chronicles an Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team during the Iraq War. (more)

The U.S. Army announced today a competition to create useful smartphone and Web applications aimed at making the military more efficient, enhancing “warfighting effectiveness,” and perhaps save soldiers’ lives. (more)

Experiencing frustration in his efforts to resolve myriad foreign policy issues, President Barack Obama blames some failures on President Bush. As to Obama’s failed policy to derail the Iranian express train seeking to load a nuclear arms cargo, he may want to consider blaming the 18th century philosopher Jacques Rousseau. (more)

“On November 5, 2009, the United States Army was viciously attacked from within by an ideologue bent on pursuing an agenda of Islamist extremism. This ideologue fell under the separatist influence of political Islam while serving as an officer. It is incumbent upon our force to begin to understand this theo-political ideology that threatens our soldiers internally and externally.” (more)

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that he supports President Obama’s decision to seek the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy prohibiting gays from serving openly in the military and has appointed a “high-level working group” to figure out how to do it. (more)

Editor’s Note: Daily Caller High is a group of young writers cutting their teeth in the world of political punditry. For its first installment, each writer was given the opportunity to reflect and write on an event that occurred over the past week. (more)