The best war journalism going on right now is not being done by the major news organizations, but by independent journalists such as Michael Yon and Michael Totten. Here’s Totten out with US troops in Baghdad, trying to find a person of interest: The area did appear to be nice, billowing plastic bags notwithstanding. Every […]
Here is an article in the (U.K.) Daily Mail with some hand-tinted photographs from the Third Battle of Ypres during World War I: As the article points out, over 2000 soldiers died every day during this battle, which lasted for several months (July-November 1917). The ground was so torn up by artillery and flooded from […]
One of the persistent myths with which the barking moonbat left comforts itself is that the military largely comprises low-IQ, knuckle-dragging grunts wearing tattoos that say “Kill them all…” without the “…and let God sort them out” punchline, men and women who lack any understanding of history, culture, or context. I wonder if any of […]
The Washington Times issued a challenge that so far nobody has met — and contrasts it with an earlier generation: We had challenged readers to name one modern American celebrity, apart from the late football star Pat Tillman, who served or fought for his or her country in the past 15 years. Nobody could name […]
My father and both of my grandfathers served in World War II. Dad survived Pearl Harbor, the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, and the invasion of Guam, as well as two tours of duty in Vietnam some 25 years later. My son Jon, my father’s namesake, now serves our country in the USMC and may deploy […]
[UPDATED 05/20/07 – 2056 MDT] First, thanks to Glenn for the Instalanche[tm]! And welcome all, however briefly it may be. Second, this comment from friedaK deserves to be called out: I was 6 years old when the war ended in Germany. Our little town was pretty close to where the Russians stopped and we were […]
Victor Davis Hanson talks about why study of military history matters: 1. All history is not equal. There is something about battle — the ghastly effort to kill young people with state sanction — that accelerates time and reduces other considerations to trivialities…. 2. Oddly, wars are not uniformly bloody and deadly, as we saw […]
This is a wonderful video, but have something handy to wipe your eyes. Hat tip to Jules Crittenden. ..bruce..
Jules Crittenden — himself no stranger to war — talks with Vietnam vet John Eade about Thermopylae: John Eade hasn’t seen a war movie in more than 40 years, but he’s thinking about seeing “300.†I kind of get that. There is something about the Spartans’ simple illogical willingness to die at Thermopylae that I […]
Approaching the 4th of July
My wife is off in Utah, helping out on the birth of our (let’s see now…) ninth grandchild, so I filled in for her at church conducting music during the sacrament meeting. Our closing hymn was “The Star-Spangled Banner”, and while I managed to keep conducting through the entire hymn (three verses), I only sang […]
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