Worth Repeating: Amy Davidson on the Bergdahl Trade
As more and more of the backstory of the US trade of Guantanamo detainees for its soldier, Bowe Bergdhal, emerge, and as the story becomes increasingly politicized, I would say […]
Is Syria The West’s Latest Moral Failing?
First, a small preamble to this post. I have no special expertise in foreign policy. I’m just a guy who watches and reads the news, and who has been trying […]
Book Review: Michael Burleigh, Moral Combat: Good and Evil In World War Two
It’s been a while since I posted a book review here. This review was published in the Spring 2013 edition of Dialogue, the journal of the Canadian Armed Forces Chaplains […]
Men In Uniform Behaving Badly – The Sad Parade Continues
This sad looking fellow is a face that should live in military infamy. It belongs to a Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, who was in charge of the US Air Force’s […]
Thinking Ethically About The New Cool War
On the Foreign Policy website today, David Rothkopf uses the term “Cool War” (new to me) to describe so called “cyberwar”, the use of computer hacking and digital attacks by […]
“Drones Are Like Laparoscopic Surgery”
Another tip of the beret to Mad Padre’s Man In Dublin for putting me on to this piece in Slate Magazine by William Saletan defending the West’s use of drones […]
More On Drones And Privacy/Policy Issues
In 2008, when I was being posted to 14 Wing in Greenwood, Nova Scotia, my realtor at the time was quite excited about the prospect of the Wing standing up […]
What’s With The Generals?
It’s been a while now since the fall of US General David Petraeus from his post-military job as head of the CIA and all the weird stuff about half naked […]
Again With The Drones: NYU/Stanford Study Addresses Social/Cultural Impact Of Drone Warfare In Pakistan
I’ve posted on several items in the military/political news regarding the West’s increasing reliance on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (commonly called drones) to conduct military actions and extra-judicial killings as part […]
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation And The Good War
In this sesquicentennial year of the American Civil War, Sept 22, two days ago, marked the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln Administration’s Emancipation Proclamation, the document which promised freedom to […]