If anyone asked me if I thought that we resorted to torture after the 911 attacks I would say there is no doubt in my mind that it happened more than once and in more than one location. I would also not doubt if an atmosphere of do it but don’t get caught was displayed. [...]
Urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan was in “poor taste” but it wasn’t desecration, the lawyer for a U.S. Marine said Tuesday. In this case I’m going to agree with the defense lawyers. Urinating on the corpses was indeed nasty and in very poor taste but it could and should not [...]
The Marines have been instrumental in every war that we have engaged in the Persian Gulf since Desert Shield began in 1989. The way that they have been used in the Persian Gulf is unconventional in that it is not they way that they are normally used. They are by nature an amphibious force [...]
The United States Marines are respected and feared all around the world. When they are deployed all fear the action that is to come. There have been numerous Marine campaigns throughout our history and they have a reputation of performing admirably under pressure. The latest campaign designs that we have created for you to use [...]
A Marine Corps survey found about 17 percent of male Marine respondents said they would likely leave the Corps if women move into combat positions. That number jumped to 22 percent if women are assigned involuntarily to those jobs, according to the survey. The reason that it jumps so high is that troops who [...]
Whenever there is hard work to be done the military calls on its enlistedrvicemen and women. The Marine Corps is certainly no exception to this rule. The difference in the Marine Corps and all other branches of service is that the Marines are a self contained miniature military force. They are a part of the [...]
After more than a decade of warfare in Afghanistan it seems that US forces will now be able to turn the operation over to the Afghan government. You may not know it but the effort has been gigantic and costly for the US and their allies who have also participated. It has been even [...]
The Government of Afghanistan is trying very hard under the leadership of “President Hamid Karzai to reconcile with its citizens who may have either worked with the Taliban or are sympathsizers. This is a wonderful effort and may be the key to repatriation, but in some cases it may be a snub to the work [...]
The Marine Corps has issued new rules for randomly testing its warriors twice yearly with a Breathalyzer to make sure they are not drunk on duty. This seems to me to be the typical way that the military tends to deal with a problem. They identify the problem but reform is applied from the top [...]
U.S. commanders are offering glowing reviews of their 2012 war campaign, upbeat assessments that could be interpreted as leeway for President Barack Obama to order another round of troop withdrawals next summer. This may or may not be true. I do believe thaqt our troops have done a job on the Taliban but I also [...]
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