CJ and I interviewed the gentlemen who made this movie last week on You Served radio. This looks to be a truly phenomenal film. Watch the trailer below and you will see what I mean. In fact if you watch this and don’t end up with a lump in your throat or a tear in your eye, then you need to take your pulse…becuase you don’t have a heart.
Two days after a report from The Associated Press accused the Army Emergency Relief fund of hoarding cash while Soldiers and their families struggle through war-zone deployments and financial hardship, the 67-year-old charity went on the offensive to defend its practices.
Using words such as "imposter" and "usurper," an active-duty Army officer in Iraq has joined a California lawyer's lawsuit intended to force President Barack Obama to prove he is a legal U.S. citizen, and therefore able to legally serve as the commander in chief.
Using words such as "imposter" and "usurper," an active-duty Army officer in Iraq has joined a California lawyer's lawsuit intended to force President Barack Obama to prove he is a legal U.S. citizen, and therefore able to legally serve as the commander in chief.
The U.S. Army said Tuesday it has dropped a conspiracy to commit premeditated murder charge against an American soldier accused of taking part in the killing of four blindfolded Iraqi detainees in Baghdad.
Iranian and Russian technicians are conducting a test run of Iran's first nuclear power plant, officials said Wednesday, a major step toward launching full operations at the facility, which has long raised worried the U.S. and its allies.
From 15,000 feet up, the pilots protect supply lines under increasing attack, fly reconnaissance missions and find what they call "bad guys" over the next hill.
In recent days two high-level assessments of the threats facing the United States have come out, and both are striking for their stark omissions of the same central theme: the criminal/terrorist nexus that is driving so much of what we see around the world.
Both are interesting reading, and is heartening to see the Horn of Africa move far up the priority scale in both discussions. The DNI report also focuses some passing (but more than any other public statement) attention on Latin America, particularly Venezuela.
Director Mueller correctly states that: The world in which we live has changed markedly in recent years, from the integration of global markets and the ease of international travel to the rise and the reach of the Internet. But our perception of the world—and our place in it—also has changed...The universe of crime and terrorism stretches out infinitely before us, and we, too, are working to find what we believe to be out there, but cannot always see.
What has changed less, it seems, is the ability to integrate into out thinking and assessments changes as they occur. My full blog is here.
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