Military Ring Info

We need to prepare for the next generation of al-Qaeda according to Admiral Eric T Olson. I always talk about warfare constantly mutates and causes the forces involved  to have to change in order to survive. Well we are at the stage in the War on Terror where the US has successfully adapted its tactics to the point where [...]

the Afghan Security and Police Forces may be getting a prelude of whats to come once the US pulls out most of our military ring customers who are currently serving in the country. They are having to hold onto territory which has been gained by our forces as part of the troop surge in that [...]

I am not surprised by this because the US is such a large melting pot. I read an article today that says that there are more than forty Americans who have left this country and gone there to join al-Qaeda. I believe that they majority of them are Somalis who were born there and naturalized [...]

The US Military has discovered that American taxpayer money is being funneled to the Taliban in Afghanistan. This is no surprise to me and I am pretty sure that I did a previous post on this problem. Now that the investigation has been completed the evidence is unmitigated and points to trucking firms and protection money. It dosen’t [...]

The best news that I have heard in about the last ten years is that mayn of our intelligence experts from various agencies are convinced that al-Qaeda is on the brink of collapse. The death of Osama bin Laden with the intelligence and propaganda victory that it entailed seemed to be the last straw. The [...]

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has spoken to his troops to rally them for the long hard haul ahead when the US and NATO leave the country. Obviously the US government is confident that Afghan forces can stand on their own because they have began to drawdown the number of our military ring customers currently serving [...]

The Don’t ask Don’t Tell policy regarding homosexuals and lesbians serving in the military has been officially repealed and will be lifted in September. Up until President Clinton served as Commander in Chief the military policy towards gay men and women was that they couldn’t serve in the US Armed Forces. Every soldier had to [...]

The job of the infantry scout is to go behind enemy lines and gather intelligence to give the Task Force Commander. In mordern heavy units scouts often ride in tracked vehicles. They will be assigned an area to check out and given priorities. They will normally sneak out at night and cross into enemy territory. [...]

I just had the extreme displeasure of looking at a picture of an Afghan boy who was between the ages of six and eight who had one of his legs blown off up to the knee and the other one severely injured because the Taliban forced him to step on an IED. They have come up [...]

This may sound sexist but the role of the military spouse essentially is to support the service member. The military is focused on the primary service member whether it is a male or female. That person serves his or her country by going off to war and the spouse serves his or her country by [...]