Sgt Stryker

In Afghanistan, the locals are finally beginning to realize the difference between the good guys and the bad guys in that country. According to military officials, recently the insurgents in eastern Afghanistan are increasingly focusing their attacks away from coalition forces and on local residents. The rate of civilians killed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) [...]

If you hadn’t heard (thanks to the media), Army Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez arrived in Afghanistan this week to assume his post as deputy commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan. Rodriguez will serve in that post on an interim basis as NATO officials create a new intermediate command that he will head in the alliance’s [...]

While air dominance is important in modern warfare (crucially so), we must not forget the role the US Navy plays in keeping the waters of the world safe from aggression. Combined Task Force 151 and the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, the task force’s flagship, recently completed a four-day port visit to the Republic of Seychelles. [...]

Two military service members were killed, while at least six other personnel were wounded in an early morning indirect fire attack on Bagram Air Field Sunday, June 21, 2009 (Father’s Day 2009…) The wounded were transported to a U.S. medical facility on Bagram Air Field for immediate medical treatment, where they are receiving expert medical [...]

Hope you enjoyed Father’s Day 2009 and got to spend some time with the fathers in your life, whether they are or were in the military or not. There’s a lot of military dads out there and a lot of dads in the military – slight difference there, but an important one. Both play a [...]

Ah, it’s good to take a break every once in a while. Did you miss me? Seriously, though, I hope you enjoyed the Stephen Colbert videos. They were quite a behind-the-scenes treat, I think. If you enjoyed them on YouTube, be sure to leave a comment here and let me know. I’ve heard him as [...]

Any Stephen Colbert fans out there? If so, you’ve probably seen or heard about Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando. “We wanted to call it ‘Feelin HOT, HOT, HOT: Papa’s got a brand new Baghdad’, but it was too many words,” Colbert said. In order to prepare for the trip, Colbert took “basic-basic training” at Fort [...]

That was so many years ago – D-Day, June 6th 1944… recently, as happens every year, the date was remembered. If you think about what a massive feat that was, it’s pretty amazing. Not that what the US military is doing today isn’t amazing, but with the technology available back then (even though the US [...]

The thing about the US military is that they do have air dominance in conflicts, but they also dominate heavy artillery, heavy armor, infantry, special forces and the seas. (Which has been proven recently with the actions against pirates in the Mideast, Africa, and elsewhere in the world.) By being competent in the air, on [...]

I’ve been talking a lot lately about people and ideas, but there’s also a lot to say about technology. From how it helps the US dominate on the battlefield to how it helps them communicate and clean-up after the battle is over. One of the great things about the United States is its ability to [...]