For the second year in a row, a group of military aficionados – many veterans of the service, if not combat – set up a special display at the park at 3602 N. U.S. Highway 301 to commemorate the 1968 Tet Offensive, a military victory turned public-relations debacle. ...more

January 31, 2009

The Taliban beheaded their relatives and terrorized their villages. Now army airstrikes are killing the innocent, say refugees who fled fighting set off by a Pakistani military offensive against the Islamic extremists. ...more

October 24, 2008

I get a kick out of hearing the president or presidential candidates saying they know how to win a war. These aren't the days when rulers go to battle with their troops. Presidents don't lead the wars and they don't win the wars. They rely on the Pentagon and the warriors to do a professional job. The key is the president must listen to what is needed and combine diplomacy to ensure wars are won. ...more

September 1, 2008

A new Army history of the service's performance in Iraq immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein faults military and civilian leaders for their planning for the war's aftermath, and it suggests that the Pentagon's current way of using troops is breaking the Army National Guard and Army Reserve. ...more

June 30, 2008

Militants ambushed and killed six U.S. troops walking in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan - the most lethal attack in a year that has been the deadliest for the U.S. military here since the 2001 invasion. ...more

November 11, 2007