I honor these men… ===== WSJ 12/3/2016 By Bob Greene It once was a big day in the United States, an end-of-autumn Saturday when, inside the walls of homes in huge cities, small towns and rural hamlets, everything seemed to stop for a few hours. The black-and-white television sets would be turned on, the shades in the rooms drawn or lights dimmed to prevent... Read more
Archive for the ‘Military’ Category
Advice to Congress
November 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Military, The RightFormer Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, who died this week, writing in a Jan. 17, 2007, op-ed for the Washington Post: The brewing fight in Congress over continued funding of the war in Iraq . . . is an ominous reminder of 1975, when Congress cut off funding for the Vietnam War three years after our combat troops had left. With... Read more
Climate and War
April 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, MilitaryWSJ 4/18/2016 ========= From April 13 testimony by Robert H. Scales, a retired Army major general, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works regarding the Obama administration’s linking of climate change and national security: The common spark for all wars is jealousy and greed amplified by centuries-long animosities and political ambitions. The catalyst for war is the ignorance of... Read more
Test of Character
December 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, MilitaryWe do not give our men/women in the service the respect and admiration they deserve. ======== Ben Summers WSJ Dec. 28, 2015 6:36 p.m. After winning the battle of Trenton on Dec. 26, 1776, George Washington ordered his troops to treat captured soldiers “with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British Army... Read more
The Study of Military History
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Military, Western CivilizationThe topic as been purged from US university curricula at our peril. ============ From remarks by Lewis E. Lehrmanat the New-York Historical Society on March 23, when the $50,000 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History was awarded to Alexander Watson’s “Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I” (Basic Books, 2014): The study of military history has in fact been purged from... Read more
America’s Strategy Deficit
February 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Military, Noonan, SequesterLeading from behind. =========== By PEGGY NOONAN Updated Jan. 30, 2015 6:33 p.m. ET Something is going on here. On Tuesday retired Gen. James Mattis, former head of U.S. Central Command (2010-13) told the Senate Armed Services Committee of his unhappiness at the current conduct of U.S. foreign policy. He said the U.S. is not “adapting to changed circumstances” in the Mideast and must... Read more
