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Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Should we nuke Mecca?

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The calculus of revenge: if the terrorists surpass 9/11, how should we respond?   Dean Esmay was not the first one to suggest American strik...
Tuesday, September 9, 2003

Why planned economies cannot succeed

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In 1964, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was Leonid Brezhnev. He promised that year that the USSR wo...
Wednesday, June 4, 2003

Donald Rumsfeld vs. the Army

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You may recall that a few months ago the position of SecDef Donald Rumsfeld was that the invasion of Iraq could be successfully conducted wi...

Rumsfeld v. the Army

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  You may recall that a few months ago the position of SecDef Donald Rumsfeld was that the invasion of Iraq could be successfully conducted ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Chaplains bearing arms in combat - is it ever permissible?

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The Battle of Moe, Larry and Curly A battalion-size task force of the 3d Infantry Division found itself embroiled in what was probably the b...
Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Chaplains bearing arms in combat - is it ever permissible?

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The Battle of Moe, Larry and Curly A battalion-size task force of the 3d Infantry Division found itself embroiled in what was probably the b...
Tuesday, January 14, 2003

Firebase Four-Papa-One, Korean DMZ, 1978

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I talked about the Korean DMZ and the Joint Security Area in a different post. Just outside the DMZ during my tour in Korea (77-78) was an a...
Friday, November 15, 2002

Why we cannot use nukes

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I originally wrote this in November 2002 as the war with Iraq loomed and have reposted it here using the same date. It was in response to ca...