Via Military.com: “In an about-face by the Pentagon, the US military is putting many more amputees back on active duty-even back into combat, in some cases… [due to] advances in battlefield medicine [and] better prosthetics… [of ~600 amputees, 31] have gone back to active duty, and no one who asked to remain in […]
Archive for May, 2007
Issues: Immigration, Hillary, Obama, Fred Thompson, and Bill Richardson.
Update: recommended reading includes, “Thoughts on ‘Strategic Compression,’” and “The Global Information Environment and 21st Century Warfare: Targeting Public Opinion in the 5th Dimension” (PDF).
Original post: In response to this post by Gar at the Nomads, and this by Robert at the Marmot’s Hole. This comment by Joshua at OFK is also generally related.
It’s […]
Via viral email: State Department: “There are no threats only emerging allies.” CIA: “We can neither confirm nor deny that there is or is not a threat.” USMC: “Don’t Matter. Mess with the best, die like the rest.” FBI: “CIA”
The Economist on America’s Anti-Europeanism
Posted by 3 May 2007, 3:00 pm Uncategorizedin . 14 Comments Their subtitle for the article, “Anti-Europeanism is a bad response to anti-Americanism.” It presents an excellent example of them - Europeans - simply not getting it:
America’s anti-Europeans have three big complaints about the Old Continent. The first is that Europe is committing demographic and economic suicide. . The second is that, unlike America, Europe […]
Most Powerful Person on Earth not on Time’s “Top 100” List
Posted by 3 May 2007, 2:08 pm Uncategorizedin . 15 Comments The leader of the most powerful nation on Earth, George Bush, and therefore arguably the most powerful person on the entire planet, did not make it onto Time Magazine’s “Top 100” list – I’ll let them explain their “People Who Shape Our World”:
Here’s our list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent […]