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REP. MIKE ROGERS:: The Strategy of a Superpower – RealClearDefense
By MB Snow at May 7, 2013 | 10:56 am
By Rep. Mike Rogers -- In the post-9/11 world, the United States is the last remaining global military and economic superpower. Our military strategy is evolving, though clear through three principles. We must maintain the best military in the world that can defeat any threat to the United States and its allies. We must provide our brave warfighters with the very ... Go To Article
EXCLUSIVE: Assad Green-Lights Palestinian “Operations” Against Israel on the Golan Heights, Threatens Missile Attacks – TheTower
By MB Snow at May 7, 2013 | 10:05 am
by Avi Issacharoff | 05.06.13 2:07 pm -- Two mortar shells struck Israel’s Golan Heights on Monday in the early evening local time. Though the IDF described the mortars as accidental spillover from fighting across the border in Syria, they are bound to deepen fears of escalating violence in the region. On Friday and Sunday Israel reportedly struck Iranian and ... Go To Article
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HELMAN has become almost dull for Marines, with Afghans now leading combat | McClatchy
By MB Snow at May 3, 2013 | 12:05 am
By Jay Price | McClatchy Newspapers CAMP DWYER, Afghanistan — One statistic about the war in Afghanistan has stood out for weeks: the single U.S. Marine killed so far in 2013. For years, the Marines have fought and died in Helmand, a hot, dusty province in Afghanistan’s south that’s earned a bloody place in corps lore, right beside the likes of Anbar province ... Go To Article
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SOURCE FIRST REPORT [VIDEO]: Military Forces Could Have Arrived in Benghazi in Time to Help | Fox News Insider
By MB Snow at April 30, 2013 | 2:58 am
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BY FOX NEWS INSIDER,// APR 29 2013 // 6:35PM The Obama administration has insisted from the start that there was no help available for the Americans under assault in Benghazi on September 11. The first in three exclusive reports alleging that that claim is false aired on tonight’s Special Report. Because the special operator in the video above is fearful of ... Go To Article
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ROSS DOUTHAT:: The Obama Era, Brought to You by the Iraq War – NYTimes
By MB Snow at March 25, 2013 | 12:45 am
By ROSS DOUTHAT -- WHEN prominent people in Washington spend an anniversary apologizing for being catastrophically, unforgivably wrong about a decade-old decision, you might expect that the decision in question had delivered their party to disaster or defeat. But last week’s many Iraq war mea culpas were rich in irony: one by one, prominent liberals lined up to ... Go To Article
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NRO EDITORS:: The Iraq War, Ten Years Later – NRO
By MB Snow at March 24, 2013 | 12:41 am
By The Editors -- Ten years ago this week, the United States launched the Iraq War. A decade later, thanks to the mismanagement of the Bush administration, the indifference of the Obama administration, and the inherent difficulties of Iraqi society, it is clear that we expended great blood and treasure for an unsatisfactory outcome. Saddam Hussein and his regime of ... Go To Article
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PEGGY NOONAN:: Can the Republican Party Recover From Iraq? – WSJ
By MB Snow at March 22, 2013 | 12:55 am
The air has been full of 10th-anniversary Iraq war retrospectives. One that caught my eye was a smart piece by Tom Curry, national affairs writer for NBC News, who wrote of one element of the story, the war's impact on the Republican party: "The conflict not only transformed" the GOP, "but all of American politics." It has, but it's an unfinished transformation. Did ... Go To Article
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REVEALED: al-Qaeda’s 22 tips for dodging drones – Telegraph
By MB Snow at February 22, 2013 | 12:07 am
Al-Qaeda's list of 22 tips for dodging drone attacks - including at least one believed to originate with Osama bin Laden - has been found hidden inside a manila envelope in a building abandoned by Islamists in Mali. Read the list in full here The document includes advice such as "hide under thick trees" (believed to be bin Laden's contribution), and instructions for ... Go To Article
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RALPH PETERS:: Not fighting back – NYPOST
By MB Snow at February 21, 2013 | 12:07 pm
Ralph Peters -- This week, a cutting-edge security firm in Virginia, Mandiant, reported that it had traced major cyber-attacks on 140 US and other Western targets back not merely to China but to a specific Shanghai high-rise belonging to Chinese military intelligence. Mandiant did splendid detective work at the unclassified level. But the situation’s even worse. ... Go To Article
NORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR TEST:: Are you listening, America? | The Economist
By MB Snow at February 12, 2013 | 10:35 am
Feb 12th 2013, 9:01 by D.T. and H.T. | SEOUL and TOKYO -- EARS shut to the impending chorus of international condemnation, North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on February 12th. It said the detonation was of a “smaller and light” atomic bomb that was different from its previous two, and that it had “great explosive power”. Figuratively speaking, the ... Go To Article
