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April 2020

April 06, 2020

Teddy Roosevelt Did Exactly What the Captain of the USS Roosevelt Did

Capt. Brett Crozier lost his command of the USS Theodore Roosevelt for asking his superiors...

March 2018

March 16, 2018

“Total Defense” Plans & the Second Amendment

Sweden and Finland are not members of NATO. But they are on Russia's doorstep. During...

May 2017

May 09, 2017

Religious liberty in the military

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod may yet again be headed to the Supreme Court,...

December 2015

December 04, 2015

Women will now serve in combat, all military jobs

The Defense Secretary has opened all combat units to women. All branches of the military...

November 2014

November 06, 2014

Using our military to fight Ebola

Some 1,000 American troops have been sent to Africa to help in the fight against...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Lateral military enlistments?

The pattern for enlisting in the military is to sign up in your 20's, then,...

September 18, 2014

Air Force will now allow atheist oaths

We blogged about the atheist airman who was not allowed to re-enlist unless he could...

September 16, 2014

Religious liberty for atheists, too

Enlisting or re-enlisting in a military service requires taking an oath, ending in the words...

August 2014

August 18, 2014

The problem with cops in camo

Why would police officers, as in those in Ferguson, Missouri, wear green camoflage jungle fatigues? ...

August 15, 2014

Demilitarizing the Police

I just got back from St. Louis, staying just a few blocks from the riots...

August 11, 2014

Destroying our own military equipment

My brother-in-law (Seabees, retired) told me that when we withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, we...

July 2014

July 04, 2014

“Up to now, I’ve given nothing for what I have taken”

Peter Wehner shares a letter written by his wife's uncle, Frank Keaton, shortly before landing...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Trying to stop smoking in the military

The men and women in our military, for various understandable reasons, smoke quite a bit...

June 06, 2014

The POW exchange debacle

The POW release was orchestrated to be a feel-good moment . But now the Obama...

April 2014

April 15, 2014

“Fixing” the Second Amendment

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, having spent much of his career trying to...

October 2013

October 22, 2013

Wasting our stuff in Afghanistan

A military contact told me this was happening, but now it's made the papers: As...

October 08, 2013

Making the military cool again

Literature, including and perhaps especially the more popular varieties, does more than provide escapist entertainment. ...

September 2013

September 10, 2013

What our soldiers are saying about Syria

Retired Major General Robert H. Scales, former commandant of the U. S. Army War College,...

September 03, 2013

Military’s qualms about war with Syria

Our military leaders have some major qualms about attacking Syria. From Ernest Londono, U.S. military...

May 2013

May 06, 2013

Military will allow evangelism but not proselytizing

Responding to the uproar about the prospect for court martials for evangelism that we blogged...

May 02, 2013

Court martial for evangelism?

How persecution begins: The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted...

March 2013

March 15, 2013

The militia part of the Second Amendment

The Washington Post has a front page story saying that the Second Amendment had always...

March 14, 2013

Medal for drone warriors

The military has instituted a new medal, the Distinguished Warfare Medal, to honor great deeds...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Women will now serve in combat

I don't think this is good. Not for women, not for our military, not for...

November 2012

November 15, 2012

Military families

One of my former students married another former student who has become an officer in...

January 2012

January 19, 2012

The two kinds of warriors: Hector & Achilles

University of Virginia English professor Mark Edmundson has written a fascinating essay entitled "Do Sports...

January 10, 2012

Our new military era

At the Pentagon last week President Obama announced the new defense budget, which will include...

September 2011

September 26, 2011

America’s decline and China’s rise?

Robert Kaplan sees President Obama's refusal to sell the latest F-16s to Taiwan as a...