The V22 Osprey -- For want of a nail

July 12, 2009 | 03:39 PM | 6 Comments

  Crosshairs -- Military Matters in Review For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the... read more »

Is there a war going on? Does only 1 percent care?

June 21, 2009 | 10:06 AM | 0 Comments

  Crosshairs - Military Matters in Review World War II movies often contain the joke, “Don’t you know there’s a war going on?” The joke in today’s war against... read more »

North Korea shatters U.S. preemption policy

June 07, 2009 | 04:40 PM | 0 Comments

  Crosshairs- Military Matters in Review  A colleague told me this week, “If we know where North Korea’s missiles are, we have a right to take them out.” He makes a good... read more »

North Korea cocks the trigger

May 30, 2009 | 04:47 PM | 0 Comments

  Crosshairs - Military Matters in Review  Since President Obama’s 95th day in office, North Korea has detonated a nuclear device, launched a slew of missiles, and started moving a... read more »

An American military ethos: What’s wrong with it?

May 17, 2009 | 05:03 PM | 1 Comment

English author George Orwell is said to have written, "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Are Americans who... read more »

Muslim fanatics and American courts: Square pegs and round holes

May 09, 2009 | 02:02 PM | 0 Comments

  Crosshairs - Military Matters in Review  With all the rhetoric about the detainees at Guantanamo that’s bouncing from one side of the Beltway to the other, it’s time to... read more »

Afghanistan and the Opium War

May 03, 2009 | 05:36 PM | 0 Comments

  Crosshairs - Military Matters in Review   More than two millennia ago, a Greek city-state’s strategy often centered upon destroying an enemy city-state’s crops. If the... read more »

‘AfPak’ targets Taliban threat

April 25, 2009 | 03:00 PM | 0 Comments

Crosshairs -- Military Matters in Review Officials in Afghanistan and Pakistan resent the U.S. term “AfPak” to describe the two countries, just like Americans would resent USCan or MexUS... read more »

Piracy: Dollars and sense

April 19, 2009 | 08:24 AM | 0 Comments

Pirates notched up the stakes when they seized the American-flagged vessel, Maersk Alabama, off of Somalia and held the captain hostage until U.S. SEALs killed three of them. Now we hear threats of... read more »

Guns in Mexico: Numbers Do Lie

April 13, 2009 | 09:51 AM | 4 Comments

If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tells reporters on a flight to Mexico City that 90 percent of the weapons used to commit crimes in Mexico come from the United States, it must be accurate,... read more »