Justice Sotomayor dangerously misunderstands our military
Excerpt Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor may be a constitutional law expert, but she apparently is unaware of a key limitation on executive power: our American troops. In her...
SEAL Team Six
The ‘forever war’ against the West
America wins a battle against al Qaeda, Israel against Islamic Jihad
Op-eds
The Real Danger in Trump Touting a Baseless Bin Laden Conspiracy Theory
It obscures that Iran and al-Qaeda sometimes do work together.
Op-eds
Taliban kills 2 U.S. soldiers in eastern Afghanistan
Resolute Support Mission, NATO’s command in Afghanistan, confirmed that two US soldiers were killed today, however no details of the attack were provided. The Taliban claimed to have killed two US s...
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Afghan President Orders US Special Forces to Leave Wardak Province
Co-authored by Bill Ardolino President Hamid Karzai has ordered the Ministry of Defense to eject all "US Special Forces" from the key eastern province of Wardak after accusing t...
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5 ISAF Soldiers Wounded in Latest Green-on-Blue Attack
A man dressed as an Afghan soldier wounded five ISAF troops in an attack late yesterday at a base in an area of eastern Afghanistan known to be a Taliban stronghold. The Afghan soldier escaped af...
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ISAF Airstrike Kills 3 al Qaeda Operatives in Afghan East
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed three al Qaeda operatives in an airstrike in the same district where 38 US and Afghan troops, including Navy SEALs, were killed when their he...
Op-eds
Obama’s Way of War
Is Barack Obama a warrior president? Not in the British tradition, of course, which gave us Winston Churchill, with his crazy cavalry charge against Sudanese spears, or the more cerebral Harold M...
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ISAF Captures IMU Facilitator in Wardak Province
Coalition and Afghan special operations teams captured an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan facilitator in the same district where 38 US and Afghan troops, including SEALs, were killed when their he...
Op-eds
Drones Are Not Enough
Getting counterterrorism policy wrong.
Op-eds
Navy SEALs Free 2 Western Hostages in Somalia
US Navy SEALs from SEAL Team Six conducted a successful nighttime raid in Somalia to free an American woman and a Danish man being held by kidnappers in Somalia....
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Taliban Tour ‘Liberated’ Base in Eastern Afghanistan
The Afghan Taliban have released video footage of a large group of fighters at a purported US base in eastern Afghanistan that was recently "liberated." The footage was part of...
Op-eds
The SEAL Tragedy
In the WSJ, Max Boot has an insightful, and at times moving, account of the failed mission this weeken...
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Contentions The Monomania of an Anti-American Prophet
The world is full of anti-American prophets. Yet none is quite so influential, and maddeningly odd, as Noam Chomsky. On one hand, no other living scholar is cited as often or widely. On the...
Op-eds
Don’t Get Cocky, America
Osama bin Laden's death is a significant blow for al Qaeda, removing a figurehead who had evaded the largest manhunt in world history for almost a decade, and who seemingly managed to remain...