A few months back two analysts blew open the conventional wisdom on Iraq when, upon their return from that country, they wrote a NY Times article claiming victory in Iraq was possible. One hilariously obvious line from the one of the follow up articles was this quote by Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institute: In […]

After a year of putting it all on the line in Iraq, after a year which was the deadliest for US troops fighting a war Congress authorized, after a year of beating the odds and actually winning in Iraq and destroying al-Qaeda, the Surrendercrats in DC are going to reward all this with a petty […]

Boy, oh boy! Are the democrats in deep trouble with the American people over Iraq. The Dems NEVER ran on a policy of retreating in defeat on Iraq. They promised to change course – but never once explained to America they meant make us all losers. After voting for the war in 2003, the Dems […]

Well if this is all true then there is going to be some serious rewriting of the “conventional wisdom” when it comes to Saddam’s WMDs: Saddam Hussein’s secret documents are measured by the shelf-mile and stored inside a secure but dusty facility near U.S. Central Command Headquarters in Doha, Qatar, and in several subsidiary sites. […]

I posted a recently that I felt it seemed to me Musharraf was controlling his transition out of power in such a way that he could call on US military support in a final battle to take out the large build up of al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in the lawless areas of Pakistan. I was […]

Seems al-Qaeda is not only getting its butt kicked in Iraq but in Algeria as well. And I should note efforts in Lebanon as well. Is it any surprise their forces are retreating to the lawless areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan to regroup (or face their final battle to the end)?

Not long ago I researched the production capability 3,000 gas centrifuges would provide Iran on its path to a nuclear weapon. The results of my research were unnerving: But the point is the 3,000 centrifuge mark just achieved by Iran can produce 30 kg per year, which is sufficient for 2 small nuclear weapons. This […]

Confederate Yankee has the latest evidence of propaganda posing as ‘news’ in the biased and unprofessional modern news media. It is stunning how twisted a simple story of success in Iraq became under the keyboard of a single media ideologue.

Success begets success. And in tactical military situations success can begin an avalanche of successes. The sea change in Iraq is not only expanding and deepening, it has forced al-Qaeda to turn to simply attempting to survive. I have stated before I think the Surge is in mop-up operations and still trying to chase the […]

The good news keeps coming out of Iraq as the results of the Surge sink in. From Iraqis themselves we hear the following: I have been working in this hospital for about eight months and the security situation has definitely improved during that time. We used to receive about 10-15 injuries and five to 10 […]