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Thoughts on Lewis Sorley’s A Better War
By Bill Moloney

In the sixty-five years since the end of World War II the most significant and formative single event in American history- beyond any question- is the Vietnam War. It reshaped our domestic politics, foreign policy, military doctrines, and popular culture in ways that still resonate powerfully nearly two generations after it ended. The Vietnam War was waged not just in the rice paddies of Southeast Asia but also in the streets and campuses of the American homeland. It divided families and regions in a manner not seen since the Civil War. It shattered the Great American Consensus that was forged in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor (more…)

The despicable terrorist act that Major Hasan committed was no doubt awful. Our prayers go out to the families that have lost (more…)

How long must America endure the depredations by radical Muslims with no response, lest we “offend” them? As the facts come in, (more…)

Hasan is an American citizen born here in the good ol’ US of A. English is his first language. If he wanted to say “God is Great,” (more…)

Like most news junkies who had followed the war in Iraq on a daily basis for six years, I thought I was pretty well informed. However when I read (more…)

Both policy realities and military realities were shortchanged in today’s Denver Post editorial, “The Reality of Closing Gitmo.” (more…)

Book Review by John Andrews

I’m honored to help an old friend, Allen Orcutt, bring out a little book of poems, prose, and pictures that explores how a year at war can change a man for life. And much for the better in this Marine pilot’s case, searing as the ordeal was. No Rest Elsewhere: Vietnam Notes, 1968-2008, expands on a poetic collection initially published in 1973, just after Allen came home. It includes his account of reconciling war-shattered relationships in later years, climaxing with a trip back to Vietnam in 2007. (more…)

(Washington, May 10) As news from Iraq got progressively better in the last year the reflexive pessimists among us have shifted (more…)

As the nation’s attention is currently focused on our troubled commerce, and no less on the Big Government responses that President (more…)

You’ve heard of the Battle of New Orleans, which ended the War of 1812. You may have heard of the Battle of Cowpens, a key engagement (more…)