Why Kansas City?In a recent letter to the editor following Allen C. Guelzo’s informative piece “The Great War’s Great Price” (November 12), Colin Calhoon pointed out that a memorial does exist in Washington, D.C., honoring District of Columbia residents who bravely served during the war. In his response, Mr. Guelzo commented that a national World War I memorial also “oddly”... Read more
Archive for the ‘Military’ Category
General Mattis
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, MilitaryBackbone… finally. ===== WSJ 2/7/2018 Congress spent Tuesday working on a budget deal to avoid another government shutdown, and one adult on Capitol Hill was Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who ripped America’s representatives for failing to provide reliable funding for the military. Mr. Mattis testified at the House Armed Services Committee about the 2018 defense strategy, among other topics, but noted with some acidity:... Read more
America’s Alarmingly Archaic Arsenal
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, MilitaryNo surprise here, folks… WSJ has been raising this for years.. ======== WSJ 1/4/2018 By Mark Helprin The Trump administration’s recently unveiled National Security Strategy is an excellent and overdue statement of intent. But unless it is ruthlessly prioritized, political and budgetary realities will make it little more than a wish list. And in regard to nuclear weapons, it hardly departs from the... Read more
A Space Corps?
December 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, MilitaryAnother area that certainly needs more attention than it has gotten – similar to “Internet Warfare”. ======== WSJ 12/22/2017 By Taylor Dinerman America’s military satellites— tens of billions of dollars worth of equipment—are utterly defenseless. An adversary using swarms of antisatellite weapons could rapidly destroy U.S. communications, early-warning, navigation and surveillance spacecraft, leaving the military blind, deaf and lost. Without these space systems,... Read more
The Computer that could Rule the World
November 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Military, Technology, Western CivilizationThis makes me nervous. ====== WSJ – 10/28/2017 By Arthur Herman During World War II the federal government launched the Manhattan Project to ensure the U.S. would possess the first atomic bomb. Seventy-five years later, America is in another contest just as vital to national security, the economy and even the future of liberal democracy. It’s the race to build the first fully operational... Read more
Six Seconds to Live
October 24 | Posted by mrossol | MilitaryWe cannot thank our soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen enough. ======== WSJ Oct. 22, 2017 4:08 p.m. ET From a Nov. 13, 2010, speech by then-Lt. Gen. John Kelly to the Semper Fi Society of St. Louis, describing a 2008 suicide bombing in Iraq that killed two Marines, Cpl. Jonathan Yale, 22, and Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter, 20. Gen. Kelly’s son, Second Lt.... Read more
