Miitary Writers On The Value Of Fiction
I just noticed this slightly dated (14 Feb 2017) on the Modern War Institute of West Point website about a panel of writers speaking on the value of writing fiction. The […]
Three Journalists Reflect On Covering Today’s Wars
This interview between War on the Rocks’ editor Ryan Evans and three working journalists – Nancy Yousseff, David Wood and Paul Shinkman is well worth listening to. The three discuss […]
Was Kunduz A War Crime?
A week after US warplanes bombed a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Kunduz, Afghanistan on 3 October, killing over twenty staff and patients, Afghanistan, there is some debate […]
Whither Canada’s Military, and Who Will Pay For It?
Last week I offered some thoughts here about the burdensome costs that first world countries must contemplate to put soldiers in the field. On the CBC website today, Brian Stewart […]
Military Taxdollars At Work
From today’s New York Times, “David Petraeus Urges Stronger U.S. Military Effort in Syria”: “A Pentagon effort to train rebel forces to take on the Islamic State has produced only […]
Military Picture of the Week: Odd Man Out
One of those three Grenadier Guardsmen is actually a cake, which may be the strangest thing I’ve ever written on this blog. The cake is to celebrate the […]
Medal Charges May Seem A Small Thing, But They Say Much About Military Culture
This is a soldier’s resume, if you know how to read it. Two days ago the Globe and Mail reported that an officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Lt. […]
More Weird And Scary
On the heels of yesterday’s post on the strangeness of the Cold War, here’s an image from today’s Foreign Policy website that is replete with weirdness and scariness. […]
The Canadian Army Goes Back To The Future
This photograph of a group of junior officers relaxing was taken sometime around 1960. You can tell they belong to the Canadian Army because of the cap badges, if you […]
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 […]