Category Archives: Troops

What’s up with Yon Michael?

Posted on April 21, 2010 | Comments Off on What’s up with Yon Michael?

I’m still sending him a donation every month, and I have enjoyed his recent work, mostly photo essays from Afghanistan Good ones. I’m not necessarily concerned that his embed has abruptly ended, or that some milbloggers are coming down on him for his recent subsequent condemnation of Allied and NATO C.O. Gen. McChrystal.

The concomitant whacks of some liberal bloggers aren’t important. Gen. M, after all, is a servant of Obamalot, and Obamalot is hardly inspiring these days.  So I’ll just cross my fingers that Yon’s stunning (and rather petulant)  Facebook remarks are as supportable as the rest of his work has been for many years. And then just wait and see.

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Posted in Afghanistan, Blogosphere, Library, Obamalot, The War, Troops

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Operation eBook Drop

Posted on April 9, 2010 | Comments Off on Operation eBook Drop

OEDLogoWorking to format my Indie books Leaving The Alamo and Knoxville 1863 for this program to provide free ebooks to active military, particularly those in Afghan and Iraq. It’s even “adopted” a light aircraft carrier, the Bonhomme Richard. Formatting (or, rather, deleting the old formatting) is a pain, so it’s moving slowly.

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Red Horse

Posted on April 4, 2010 | Comments Off on Red Horse

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Michael Yon’s latest: In search of water in Afghanistan’s desert of death.

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Confessions of a Zionist Soldier

Posted on March 30, 2010 | Comments Off on Confessions of a Zionist Soldier

The life and thoughtful blog remarks of an Israeli soldier serving in an Israel Defense Forces field unit. Including this good post on checkpoints and Passover.

Via Middle East Analysis.

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Army drops bayonet training

Posted on March 18, 2010 | Comments Off on Army drops bayonet training

I think this has happened before. I’ll look it up when I have more time. They drop it as irrelevant to “modern” warfare. Then they bring it back as relevant to teaching aggression–for those who need to learn it. So, the next story likely will be the comeback of bayonet training.

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Portrait of the American and Israeli soldier

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Posted on March 15, 2010 in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Texana, The War, Troops

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Lay of The Higher Law

Posted on March 4, 2010 | Comments Off on Lay of The Higher Law

“Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;
“He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.”

—The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi, by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Via Philip Jose Farmer.

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