On another forum (Guns and Patriots) there is an article by Cork Graham (his own interesting history here) about a speech by journalist Joe Galloway. Galloway suggested that the US reinstate the draft in a speech in 2008:

Joe Galloway commented on how much better it would be for all if they brought back the draft and required every President of the ( Read more... )

There's been some confusion around the recent employment of military jargon to describe the current combat operations in Libya. This blogger has a humorous take on this and past "dumbass names" -- and one link to the blog notes "I Was Anti-War in Libya Until I Realized it was a Kinetic Military Action:" I malreported doubleplus ungood bellyfeel ( Read more... )

Scott Stewart of STRATFOR, itself an intelligence-gathering organization, discusses the WikiLeaks releases and their implications. He's not too concerned:When one takes a careful look at the classified documents released by WikiLeaks, it becomes quickly apparent that they contain very few true secrets. Indeed, the main points being emphasized by ( Read more... )

You can see from this chart that the accident rate steadily declined ( Read more... )

You've heard me say that the total number of military deaths in Iraq has been comparable to that from military training accidents in recent years. Have reviewed the data in some detail, that seems to be true ( Read more... )